Victoria

I want to ask you guys to pray for a little girl. Her name is Victoria and she is five years old and battling cancer. I do not personally know her, only through email. Please say a prayer for Victoria and her family. Their only hope for her now is Jesus. She is a wonderful, amazing little girl who dreams of growing up to be a ballerina and a mommy. Though I don't really know her, I know that she is such a sweetheart and is still full of faith. Please keep her in your prayers.

Merry Christmas; after hearing about Victoria my heart got set back into what Christmas is really all about....the gift of Jesus Christ, and our hope in Him. Because of Him we truly have something to celebrate.

May you have a beautiful Christmas and a blessed New Year!

Sweetly Broken

I love the song, "Sweetly Broken" - it is definitely one of my favorite worship songs.

I love the chorus, how it talks about Jesus beckoning us to the cross, drawing us to our knees, and we become so lost in His love. I love the thought of that, I love the truth in that. That He is always calling us to the cross, that place where we become broken in ourselves and are finally able to be made whole in Him.

Sometimes though I find that I often fight the things that would bring me to that place. This week though I was looking up Scripture that had to do with our brokeness and each one I found brought me comfort. For I saw how God can take the broken heart and heal it. Sometimes I think the hardest prayer to pray is just simply saying "God I need You", and yet I was thinking how maybe it's the best kind. I have learned that daily we are a broken people, yet our brokeness can be made sweet when we take it to the Lord.

Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart-- These, O God, You will not despise.

Psalm 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds.

Isaiah 61:1
"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;