“Today has been a great day so far..but honestly every day we do try our best Erik and I to have a great day..and is it because we don’t have problems or troubles?..well, absolutely not because we like you each of us always there is something that is happening and going on in life..Amen..but when we choose to see the love in the day..the blessings in the day..and we choose to see the good in the day that we’ve been given then we do have a great day..Psalms 118:24..Praise the Lord..because only we ourselves choose what kind of day we will have..and that always leads and falls back on true love..Amen..because true love is what Jesus did for you and I on the Cross..Amen..He loved us enough to go..even though it was the most awful and dreadful thing anyone has ever had to go through He went..Matthew 27:32-56..Amen..and today again Erik and I were blessed to go yet once again to the largest Cross in Groom, Texas..and every time we go we are so amazed..Amen..and we are reminded of what the Lord did for us there that day over two thousand years ago..and it is such a blessing every single time to go and see and think about it all again..and in which case I think each of us should always take our bibles and go back to those scriptures and remember it all again..Amen..all that was written..and all that took place leading up to that dreadful and most dreary day on earth..Amen!”

“Because it does change how we view our lives and how we live through them..Amen..because all was defeated there that day for whosoever will call upon the Lord..Matthew 16:25-28..Amen..but back to true love..my dearest friend sent me this beautiful quote this morning and it was speaking of love and true love at that..and what that really looks like and should look like in our lives..it says that True love is acceptance of all that is..all that has been..will be and will not be..acceptance involves embracing someone with their strengths and weaknesses it is accepting someone unconditionally loving despite their imperfections..Amen..and so I think about this..and I think about my life daily..and I do view it that way..being thankful regardless of the imperfections that is there..loving beyond what is or what isn’t..and being the best in my day that I can be for the Lord..towards it all..as I say life..family..friends..strangers..all of it..Amen..having true love is representing the Cross and representing the Lord with our lives and how we choose to live and how we choose to love and love it all..Amen..and so today I pray we all can live there in our lives under the shadow of the Cross..remembering it..and rejoicing through it all..choosing true love..every day..Amen..for it is in His name, Jesus’ name, that I do ask and pray..Amen and Amen..Be blessed today my dear sweer friends and remember wherever you go and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi ❤️