Broken...Beautiful.

This is one off the walls I had to climb at the Warrior Dash!Have you ever tried to scale a wall?  It’s not easy.  I have had to scale many walls during my years between camps and other crazy things I volunteer to do!  Scaling a wall is not an easy thing to do, it would be a whole lot easier to break down the wall.  Like I said, I have encountered many walls in my life.  Some of the walls were physically real, but some were emotional or spiritual. 

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Heart Flutter...

It’s Valentines Day.  (Just call me Captain Obvious!)  A lot of people have a lot of different thoughts when it comes to Valentines Day.  Some people love it and go all out with personalized valentines for all their friends and families.  However, on the other hand, some people hate it.  They choose to wear black and not speak a kind word to anyone.  Me?  It’s just another day.

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More Than Conquerors

Have you ever felt defeated?  Have you ever felt like something has conquered you rather than you conquering it?  I have.  Honestly, I think we all have.  Yes, we have our “mountaintop moments” where we feel like we have conquered the world and we are not scared of whatever is coming next.  However, we also have those “valley moments” where we are overwhelmed, frustrated, scared and simply feel like the world is against us and there’s no way out.  I know (and I’m pretty sure you know) how that feels.  The feeling of being conquered.  This is definitely one of the worst feelings in the world.  However, today, we can take great joy and hope in knowing that we cannot only be conquerors, but we can be MORE THAN CONQUERORS.  How?  I thought you might ask that! :)  Let’s look to the book of Romans to see what Paul has to say about this situation.  

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