“Love is not something that happens to you, it’s something CREATED inside of you.”

I don’t know who came up with that saying; I discovered it on a plaque at work today and felt it suited perfectly into the grand scheme of the purpose of this blog; write my faith walk in the hopes there is someone out there who is going through the same thing, or to encourage another so they will know they are NOT alone in their struggles of the flesh.

I need to change. Not because I feel as though I’m at fault for things in my life. Oh no. If you ask me I’d rather tell you I don’t need to change at all. It’s my husband. He’s the one with issues. He’s the one who needs to change!

Yeah. That’s what I think, and that’s what I’d like to say however, God doesn’t think the way I do. (Drat.) And because I’ve considered myself a Follower of Christ for more than 20 years and have done more bible studies than the average Christian, I know what God’s word says and it says, I have to change.

That is a big pill to swallow and doesn’t go down easy. The true problem is; our self-centeredness doesn’t ALLOW us to GIVE up ANYTHING to God because WE believe we know better than Christ how to fix our problems. Just look at America today through God’s eyes and you’ll realize what a blunder that thinking causes.

You won’t find this blog full of flowery words. I’ll be frank at times because I need to be real; true to myself, as it were, because I’m still growing in Christ and haven’t gotten the “Let’s talk so religious people will know how spiritual we are, praise God and Amen,” verb age down.

I assure you I haven’t been keen on this whole I’m the one who has to change concept. It’s not like the first time I felt God tell me this I jumped for joy and shouted, “Oh yes! You are SO right! Let’s do it.”

Ha. No. The first time I felt the stirring I dug in my heel’s and said, “Are you JOKING Lord? Me?” I was positive the voice I’d heard was Satan because after all, God knew I was perfect.

Well guess what. God knew better than that….