“Struggles are real..heartaches are real..disappointments are real..fear is real..life is hard..troubles they happen..finances get tight..friendships fail..marriages end..death finds it’s way to your life and family..life is a battle..and it is not a game as some like to play it..and for some they think that it’s supposed to be some game..it’s supposed to be as some like to say sunshine and sprinkles..but it’s not..and when it’s not for some they fall away from the Lord the very keeper of their soul..Amen..for some they distance themselves from everyone and everything at one time had significance and much meaning to them and their lives..Amen..for some they lose all hope that they once had..for some they grow hard hearted..they stop all the good things in their life that they once did..they stop helping..they stop caring..they just give up..and I tell ya guys it happens around us daily if only we opened our eyes long enough to see it..Amen!”

“For if only we took our eyes off from our lives..and focused in on the bigger picture that is around us..Amen..for you see I don’t know what has happened to life and people and the way things used to be..somehow maybe we gave up like others have..or we let self get in there and instead of walking in our spirit man we kind of walk in the flesh and we begin acting as the flesh would act..and we let things go and we let people go and we let family go and friends go and before long we have let everything go..and we look up and we’ve built this sad life..Amen..that is very lonely to say the least..and than wonder how did we get to this place?..how did we let everything fall by the wayside?..Matthew 13:4/Mark 4:15/Luke 8:12..Amen..for I do say all the time that we have one life to live..and we have one go around in this life..and love and family and friends are a ‘MUST’ to literally survive..because we all help one another and we all need one another..we all have something rare and unique to offer..and God made us to be together..not apart..we draw strength in numbers..we laugh together..we love together..we stand firm together in unity..for you see the scripture says..a person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken..Ecclesiastes 4:12..Amen!”

“And no life or family is perfect..people do get in disagreements..and they fuss a little but at the end of the day love wins and love prevails..we don’t throw everything away just because of one thing..or maybe even two things..but we agree to disagree in our lives..and we live in the now of our lives..and we enjoy the now of them..because as I say life ends..and there are simply no do overs..so we choose our life..we choose to reach out..we choose to forgive..we choose to help..we choose to care..we choose to be different..we choose to laugh..we choose to live..and we choose to turn the other cheek..we choose to let things go..we choose to lift up and we choose to encourage and we choose to love all and not merely few..we choose to get our hands dirty..and we choose to walk and live where Jesus desires that we do..all the while denying self and picking up our cross and following the Lord..Matthew 16:24-26..and His will and His way for each of us and our lives in which we live..and we choose to say yes and we choose to live well each of us and all the Lord has prepared..for it is in His name, Jesus’ name, that I do ask and pray..Amen and Amen..Be blessed today my dear sweet friends and remember wherever you go and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi