My Barren Fruit

Today I needed a little more encouragement than usual. I thought I would share what I found with you.  "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls." Proverbs 25:28 It's true. I read this yesterday and I chewed on it for a while. What does ruling your spirit means? I believe it goes along with my last post of guarding your heart. I'll give you a little more insight of my life to maybe help.  I'm a redhead. Yup. Full blown ginger with green eyes. Nearly everyone will say the usual, 'bad tempers' and 'bad attitudes'. In reality, I've calmed down quite a bit in life and cut me some slack I have the odds against me. :)  It's very easy for me to get carried away with, well, anything. Although my temper isn't flaming hot all the time, its easy when something does make me mad to dwell on it. At this point many things make a situation worse and very few make it right.  Should I let thin

My dearest barren, with the holidays coming around I would like to encourage you in the Lord. It's tough, our path, but the holidays always make it harder. Whether it be an idle comment or the gathering of family around the new baby your sister just had, all these things keep us under a cloud. Try as we may sometimes it gets the best of us. I wish I could tell you something that would take the pain away or to ease the aching you possess but I cannot. I struggle as you do. Everyday. I am learning this path as you are. I am simply trying to encourage you to keep a right spirit as I attempt to do. I want to discuss guarding your heart. It sounds pretty clear what that might mean. I wanted to dig deeper and find out what God has to say about it. "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." Proverbs 4:23 This verse I will commit to memory. If we keep our hearts right with God, He will bless us. (It may be a stretch for some of you to take t

I've been at odds searching for a topic to write about. It came to me yesterday.  Dying daily.  We all have heard the phrase and some of us may have read in the Bible about one of the great saints saying he "dies daily". For the longest time I did not know what he meant. What does it mean to die daily??  I believe the answer was revealed to me this week. Upon my journey of spiritual renewal and deepening my relationship with Jesus, I've learned a very important lesson.  I set myself aside to allow God to work through me. This is what it means to die daily. Sacrificing your feelings, your emotions, and your reactions to the world around you, pushing them aside you allow the Holy Spirit to fill you. It sounds odd and little bit self-centered when it's not. I'll give you an example. My work environment is stressful, not in a physical way but an emotional way. Lots of women in one office, many of which who like to talk and not always in the nice way.  I hav