“So it is amazing to me at how I go to bed at night and then wake up in the morning and my home is a little messy..lol..well, not so much messy..but lots of hair..and dog hair at that..let me just say that if you have or own a Labrador..then you already know where I am going with this post..Amen..because it is a constant cleaning and keeping it cleaned up..the floors and the couch and everything else..Amen..so I tell him in the mornings when I get up..Benjamin what did you do last night have a party while mommy was sleeping?..lol..but in all seriousness it reminds me that daily we get up and we clean ourselves up..Ephesians 6:10-18..Amen..it starts over every single day..Amen..we get this beautiful white robe that God places on us when we accept Him as Lord..Amen..and its our job to keep it all clean..Amen..and sometimes the mess is evident like our Benjamin’s hair..Amen..its just there right there in your face so to speak..and he is a black lab so his hair is again as I say right there in your face..you cannot miss it even if you wanted to try to miss it..you can’t..lol..Amen..but the thing is this what I have learned and I am still learning is this..the things we see we get on them pretty quickly to fix them and clean them up..Amen..but the things that are hidden them secret things in all of our lives..we just kinda keep sweeping under the rug or we just keep pushing them back down in our lives..we don’t really go messing with the stuff we can hide..Amen..and this morning I was thinking about this as I am cleaning up my sweet little Benjamin’s hair..and I said Lord even if I wanted to do it later I couldn’t because it would bother me so much..Amen..because as I say it is in my face..lol..in my eye sight..Amen..so I couldn’t help but to think that Lord what if all of those secret things of our lives that we hide..that we don’t wanna deal with..just came surfacing in our lives..because I think that we would deal with them..we wouldn’t just keep procrastinating with these things or thing..but we would deal with it..and deal wit them..Amen!”

“I heard a bible study teacher say once we are good at pretending..Amen..and she says we learn this as a child..how to get along with our parents with others..and we say what they wanna hear and we hide our true feelings and our emotions..and we pretend or we just down right lie about a situation..Amen..and she was referencing kids playing and at how you see the one push the other one down..and then you ask them why they did it..and they will say oh I’m sorry..and they pretend hug..but not really meaning that they’re sorry..they just say what they know you wanna hear..Amen..and we do the same thing..we pretend well..we don’t face the problems..we don’t deal with the anger..or the unforgiveness..not ever..we just walk away..we let things go..and we say we don’t wanna talk about it..Amen..but in doing so we are a little dingy on our white robes..Amen..kinda sad if you think about it..but its true..because we are staining them all up ourselves..for somethings we can let go..but then there’s the big things well they can’t be let go of..Amen..they have to be dealt with..one way or another..whatever that secret thing is..only you know..and only you have to deal with it with the Lord..that a way you grow..and then you move on..Amen..staying pure..staying holy..and keeping that robe of yours all white..letting nothing stain you..Amen..so let us work on them secret places..let us look at our hearts..let us look at them things we just say even though we don’t mean them..and then let us do better and be real..and keep our homes clean..and tidied up..other than making excuses..and or just pretending..for that is such a terrible thing to have to do..Amen..for they say you don’t teach sin..for your born into it..but you have teach right..and you have to teach truth..Amen..for it is only truth that sets us free..John 8:32..and keeps us well..and happy and whole..being free in yourself..being clean..that is the place daily we all wanna be..nothing weighing us down..Amen..being light on our feet..and light in our hearts always and forever..Amen..not carrying heavy loads and baggage that we do not have to carry..for the Lord says cast your cares on me for I care for you..1 Peter 5:7..for my yoke is easy and my burden is light..Matthew 11:28-30..Amen..so we are free in Christ and whom the Son will set free is truly free indeed..John 8:36..Amen..so be clean..be whole..and stay well..Amen..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 ❤