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Embracing
Embrace life.
Embrace this moment of praise.
Embrace the freedom to lift your voice to the creator and your hands in submission.
If you have grown up without or now find yourself not having a father or mother, Embrace your fatherlessness and motherlessness because you have the love of the most high!
To the young, Embrace your purity and the beauty that it brings.
If your single, Embrace your singleness because IT IS a life worth living.
If your married, Embrace being married and the chance to walk through this world in a valuable partnership.
Mothers, Embrace your motherhood and the gifts you have been given here on earth. Children are a gift from God no matter their age.
Those who cannot have children, Embrace your bareness and the peace that will fill your void when you accept the life you have been given.
Embrace your time of mourning because a NEW day is coming!
Embrace your sisters from every walk and race and the hand they hold out to help lift you up.
Embrace the sound of their voices lifted in unity reminding you that you are NOT alone, you have friends.
Embrace the old and the young for what they can teach you.
Embrace life because as surly as the sun will rise HE WILL come!
Embrace.
To Embrace is to stretch your arms wide open and accept the change He will do from the inside out. Because, Embracing the life that God has given you is "the best thing you can do" for the heavenly, loving, Father.
Say, "This is the day I will Embrace the life God has given me, my everyday ordinary life."
Embrace being humbled.
He hears you. He loves you. He is coming and He wants to Embrace you my sister.
Generation to Generation by Stacia A. Barton
If only I had known then what I know now, my life might have taken another turn. The wisdom of hindsight is a bittersweet blessing.
I did not become Jesus with skin on to those in my world until I had learned to trust the Jesus in me, the hope of glory, and until I had gotten comfortable in my own skin.
“Never trust anyone over thirty.” “Thirty is the new twenty.” “Fifty is the new forty.” “Seventy is the new sixty.”
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. Ecc. 3:1 NIV
How does the enemy weaken women? He separates us with petty jealousies, with the lie that no one else will understand where we are at, with misunderstandings and with prejudice against generations other than our own.
You are my sister, no matter your age or background. I may not understand you completely, but I can learn something from you and you from me.
Do not hold my youth against me. I may not have years of experience, but I have the enthusiasm of youth. I am seeking the One True God. I am dodging potholes and pitfalls that you may not have experienced, but then each generation confronts its own. And remember, “…there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecc. 1:9 NIV
My sisters have walked many miles. If I listen, I will hear nuggets of wisdom that I may adapt to my life. It is far better to learn from others’ mistakes than from my own. But, if you can learn from my mistakes, it makes the pain bearable.
Ask. Listen. Speak. Identify. Glean.
Glean. I think of Ruth following after Naomi and sent to glean in Boaz’ field. Naomi was not a perfect mother-in-law, but Ruth was a faithful daughter-in-law. She had learned much from the mother of her husband. She had learned to value the wisdom in a woman older than herself, and of a different background than herself. She began to identify with similarities, not differences. She sought to make Naomi’s God her God, and in so doing brought blessings down through the generations, which we experience even today.
You are my sister, no matter your age or background. I may not understand you completely, but I can learn something from you and you from me.
I am middle aged now. I cover gray hair with a lovely shade of golden auburn. A tweezers is my new friend. “Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin”, means more today than it did when I was a child.
My friendships with women are more precious to me now. I look back at friendships that have lasted half a lifetime, and marvel at how much I used to take them for granted. It is a blessing to be loved and accepted by women who know you best. It is a blessing to come to a place in life where all that God and people have invested into you is now flowing out to others in creative ways, like a flow of lava to the sea.
Red hot. Passionate. Unexpected. Undeterred. Imbued.
Imbued. God imbues us with that which will touch others. Unimaginable loss when imbued with God’s power becomes a reservoir of strength and compassion. The hand of a child lost to this life, never knowing his mother’s touch. The loss the mother feels brings her to fiercely guard the children of the present generation that future generations may be rescued from the destructive lies of the enemy and the evil that dwells in the hearts of men.
We can accomplish more together than apart. Joys are multiplied. Sorrows are halved. Cheesecakes are shared. Broken cookies have no calories.
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22 NIV
Laugh together with me. Cry together with me. Be a force of nature. Be all you have been created to be.
You are my sister, no matter your age or background. I may not understand you completely, but I can learn something from you and you from me.
Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. Isaiah 46:4 NIV
Do not dismiss me because I am old and crowned with silver hair. I may not speak as resolutely as you remember, indeed at times my thoughts haltingly approach the hearer’s ears. But I have much wisdom stored up to battle the foolishness of this world. Do not race past my walker without seeing me.
I stand before you, plainly visible, yet you turn to my adult child and ask questions pertaining to me, as though I am incapable of responding. Time invested in speaking directly with me will be rewarded. I am a repository of God-given answers, gleaned from years of studying the Word of God.
Ask directly. Listen expectantly. Speak respectfully. Identify similarities. Glean truth. Ponder prayerfully.
Ponder this prayerfully. None of us deserves to be made invisible by those of other generations. God purposed that we should live in community, all ages under this roof, intent on building up one another, not tearing each other apart.
You are my sister, no matter your age or background. I may not understand you completely, but I can learn something from you and you from me.
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