‘Hello, hello, anyone there?!!’ Do you ever feel like anyone is actually really listening? Picking up that so needed conversation in a positive attitude, to only get you out of that dark place. That love that helps you be needed again without so many negative impacts…

As Christians we are bought with the most precious amount of Love, this price cannot be paid by or through anyone else. Jesus, carried by a young woman, would she have known at that time by singing happy songs to Him, but also having the concerns we also have for our children growing up. Did she know the sleeping child she was holding is the Great I Am? We are all giving this precious amount of love to our children, can you imagine God’s love as a Father to give up, His Son, and as overwhelming as it may seem to us, caring for all of us, His children?! How big! The more you think about it, the larger it becomes… ‘Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!’ (1John 3:1)

‘As we are peddling the word of God’ (2 Corr. 2:17) ‘We are talking and living the sight of God in Christ’ ; While writing this I can just feel the closeness of Him near me. The battle’s I’ve (we’ve) bin going through over the last year have been so big. I even ignored His closeness and I wonder if that made it worse, thinking I didn’t even need Him. Isn’t that so for so many?! So why then is it that we go through these phases? Why is He letting us? Because we still have our own choices to make. Our whole lives are full of choices; think about the things you have to pick from through one day only already. But if those things only stack up negative, the end sight is so far, that road we started to pick is going so far from the big path, it is dark and lonely. Very lonely. As I have bin there I cannot even begin to imagine how Jesus felt so lost by ALL humanity AND His Father that hour… Like the spear in His side, it didn’t go through His heart, but all of it mentally must have felt that way.

The trust we so need in Christ, the kind of trust He has for us; ‘Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God’ (2 Corr. 3:5) I, we know we must run this life through choices we make, but are these choices made in Christ or without Him in it. This statement is so powerful, it will impact so many consequences.

‘Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad.’ (Prov. 12:25)  Our thinking, our head needs to think healthy… Our emotions will get out of hand if depression creeps in. This mental health problem is going hand in hand with good and wrong. When choosing the wrong, not always knowing doing so, this path is so astray that your whole life will have such an impact not only on you but also others. Facing this is so hard, because you need a good wake up call. The call of Love. Love is through positive surroundings. This is what is needed. Knowing, feeling that you are loved and not only for your doings, but just for the way you are. Not looking at the things that happened or sins done. Forgiveness is a very big thing to get off this bad path.

When feeling anxiety it is like all your veins in your body that connect to your heart, pump different, the blood going through it goes everywhere but it feels like it leaves out the good places. Mainly the positive attitude. When negative stacks up you have to be careful to keep up the positive. Love through encouragement is what is so needed in everything, the grace of Jesus, but also others around you. What are the things that actually really matter in this life, are these included in this negative thinking? Our marriage, children, family, God?! Usually they are far to find in anxiety, at least they were for me. Don’t let our lives take over the outside of the inner us, don’t let daily life eat up your most precious matters in life. Better is yet to come, He is preparing it for us!

‘Therefore we do not lose heart. Even through our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.’ (2 Corr. 4: 16,17) God knows our doings, our choices, with our without Him included. He let’s us discover how much we need His grace and He forgives us for it. Only because Jesus is so mentally strong, He won it for us! His mercy, His mercy through grace is the price of love!!