Happy New Year!!!

Happy 2008 to all of you!!!!!
I am SO looking forward to an incredible year ahead. I know that God has SO much in store for all of us.
For me personally, I decided against New Year's Resolutions. I am making LIFE STYLE changes. I know, that is so overly used but really, that's my goal. What I'm changing in my life presently will eventually become lifestyle changes.
I am striving to let my life be a reflection of who God is. I've struggled my entire life grasping the concept of God's unconditional love! Once I think I've got it, something else comes up and makes me wonder about His love. Not that I doubt His love, I just don't understand 100% how it works.
I've also struggled with grasping His forgiving nature. When I turn to sin, I feel awful and unforgivable BUT God in His Sovereignty forgives me when I ask. WOW...isn't that just amazing.
I know it's so basic but sometimes we have to be reminded of the basic things of God. I recall a song from the early 90's, Get Back to the Basics, sung by 4 Him. It was a reminder to us that we have to return to the Word Of God and to the Virtures and Morals that He laid out for us!
My challenge and prayer for you this year is that you will go back to the basics of who God is in your life. Don't allow religion and rules and regulations get in the way. Pull out the Word of God and discover God's truth for YOU!!!! Seek the Lord today!!!

Oh Lord
teach me to seek you,
and reveal yourself to me
when I seek you.
For I cannot seek you unless
you first teach me,
nor find you unless
you first reveal yourself to me.
Let me seek you in longing,
and long for you in seeking.
Let me find you in love,
and love you in finding.
--Saint Ambrose of Milan, c. 340 - 397


Be Blessed!!!

TERRI