Are you half empty or half full?

I understand how difficult it is to be positive all that time! Sometimes I wish that I could just say :forget you” to the world! But, then my senses kick in! Really! What do I have to complain about? Now I know life is horrible, crappy, dysfunctional, people mess with us! But, the reality is that what happens to us cannot determine our quality of life. God is the one who determines the quality of our life, he makes all things good! Really!

Romans 8:28 (NJB)
²⁸ We are well aware that God works with those who love him, those who have been called in accordance with his purpose, and turns everything to their good.

Remember that all poo becomes manure in the hands of the master gardener, God! the one who grows us and maintains us is the one who takes us through all of life’s storms.

A Treasure With Immeasurable Value!

A Treasure With Immeasurable Value!

I was talking with my friend Peter about how sad it is the women don’t feel or know how beautiful they really are. Now I know that you have heard it said the women are supposed to be treated like a princess, or like a treasure. I think, like most things we get told, we don’t take the time to realize what a truth means to our own life! Treasure….it hit me! Treasures are nice! You want them! But a real treasure has extreme value and is often hard to find.

I think that if we choose to view each other as a treasure it would change who we date and why we date! To be honest most of us don’t want to go on the treasure hunt. It may take too long, take too much work, or worse….what if we don’t find a treasure at all! As a result we settle for something less than a treasure! We end up with Iron Pyrite (fools gold)and later wonder why our heart got broken or we made mistakes. I think the answer is easy! We settled because it was easier!

Hear me now! Guy or girl, YOU ARE A TREASURE! Do not settle! Be wise, be patient, and fight the lie that you need it now. Your life is in God’s hands! Please leave it there; he takes better care of you than you!

Philippians 4:8 (MSG)
⁸ Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse.

Proverbs 18:22 (NLT)
²² The man who finds a wife finds a treasure and receives favor from the LORD.

Ephesians 5:33 (TLB)
³³ So again I say, a man must love his wife as a part of himself; and the wife must see to it that she deeply respects her husband--obeying, praising, and honoring him.

Addendum:
If you are married! Your spouse is your greatest gift! Not your kids! Treat them like the most valuable thing you have ever seen or own!

Genesis 2:23-24 (NLT)
²³ "At last!" Adam exclaimed. "She is part of my own flesh and bone! She will be called `woman,' because she was taken out of a man." ²⁴ This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.

Note the excitement! Maybe your treasure hunt is reclaiming the youth of your marriage!