Are we allowing a change?

I've been so incredibly blessed to spend some extra quality time with two lovely women that are seeking GOD like never before on Friday late afternoon through Saturday morning. We decided to set some time apart from our families and busy schedule to just get alone with one another and God. No cell phones, just us, God, The Word, food and time. We planned an over night excursion right here in our very own community at a Bed & Breakfast. We booked about a month ago and asked for the "Bunk House". It was absolutely the perfect spot in this season of our lives.

I so had planned on a few pictures but we got busy the minute we all arrived until we left on Saturday morning. The camera never came out and so you'll just have to use your imagination as well as the pictures off of the website for the B&B.

As I then spent some time alone once I arrived home I was reflecting upon the change in me and in them SINCE Christ. I'm telling you that if you have never given your heart to Christ, that change is so worth all the effort and time involved and to KEEP PRESSING THROUGH. I would like to speak for these two ladies as well as myself, but we will never ever arrive on the other side as perfect while walking here in the flesh on earth. BUT we can little by little become more like Christ and leave our old natures behind. I was sharing on Friday night that 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" in the margin of my bible I had written: God is in the recycling business!!

I have no idea where I heard that or from whose lips but isn't it the truth, Girlfriends and Guy friends? So will you and I allow Him to change us little by little, glory by glory? OR will we stay in that deep rut that only leads us farther away from Him taking us farther into the pit?

Father, Thank You for the gift of friendships. I love my friends and I love how YOU orchestrated these relationships. Lord, I so remember just not that long ago desperately trying to juggle life and You. And honestly, I still from time to time find myself in that cycle. YET, I'm so thankful that I had other women that would give of themselves into my own life to encourage me to continue stepping with one foot in front of the other. To continue in Your word, whether it be 5 minutes or it be x
amount of time. But to give and to start and to not give up. May I pour myself out for these women or any woman that You place in my path. I'm forever thankful Lord. I love YOU like crazy, Lord. In Christ's Name, Amen.