Where is your heart?

Good Morning ladies! I’m excited to announce that today I have a guest blogger! Her name is Chris Carter and she’s visiting us by way of Columbus, Ohio. Before getting married and having children, Chris worked as a music therapist for several years in Chicago’s inpatient psychiatric hospitals. She also managed creative arts and recreation programming for four group homes, which was an amazing experience.  In that time of her life, she learned and grew to know the pain and suffering of so many people. 

She is now a stay-at-home mom and currently spends her days running kids to and from school four times a day, volunteering in various kid programs at school and church, and keeping the house in some sort of order! Chris has a thriving blog, The Mom Cafe, where she regularly shares her
mothering experience and wisdom. Her hope is to touch people in any way she can, and shine a little light in their world through her writing. After reading and commenting on her post below, please go by her blog and show my good friend some love! Hey, while you’re at it…go ahead and follow her blog, I promise, you won’t be disappointed! 

 Wishing you and your family a happy and safe Thanksgiving holiday! See you next Monday and don’t forget to let your prowess show this holiday week!

Where is your heart?

Oh the joys of Thanksgiving abound all around us!  And we all go about our business of being “thankful” and saying grace while counting our blessings.  To celebrate this Holiday, we all go through the motions with our family and feed ourselves with delicious food.  We laugh and play and unite with loved ones and exhaust ourselves with tradition.  That’s a beautiful thing, isn’t it?

What does your heart really say?

Is your heart truly open to gratitude, or are there too many dark places that shade the light?

There is suffering.

There is pain.

And no one is without.

We each live a life battered and bruised by life’s misfortunes.  No one is untouched.  All of us can linger in the weariness and wearing of the fight.  Some are in a season where hope is but a faint glimmer, and our eyes are dimmed to only darkness.

Oh dear friend, Jesus is calling you to the light.  He weeps for you, as you whimper and wonder and wait…

For His blessing.

My favorite verse in Philippians, takes us on a path to gratitude:

⁶ Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

⁸ Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

As you find your quiet amongst the hustle and bustle of the season, please pray on this passage and feel God’s light transform you.

And may you open your heart to Thanksgiving and think about such things…

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