Well welcome to 2016. We have endless possibilities and adventure waiting ahead!! Well that's what I am hoping anyway!!! I do NOT understand why I wait til a new year to dream up NEW possibilities or let myself hope for NEW or even desire NEW. Yes the Word that the Lord gave me to focus on in 2016 is NEW!! That excites the tar outta this girl. The beginning of last year SUCKED and was horrible awful and terrible. I am NOT even slightly exaggerating and if you know me, that's big!!!
I was ecstatic to leave 2015 behind!!!
I did get a GIANT gift July 25th in my daughter-in-love Jennifer. Then on Thanksgiving Day another GIANT gift in the news that I am going to have a grand baby at the end of July and that makes me a Lolli and Michael a Pop!! We are calling this precious Angel Baby, Baby A! Boy or girl their name starts with an A!!! What a way to close out a terrible year. God is soooooo sweet like that!!!!!
I was looking up numbers and 15 in the Bible represents death. UUUUMMMM yeah for me death of friendships, marriages, my Grandad :(, hopes, dreams and desires. Yeah it's sounds as morbid as it was in real life. But then I looked up the number 16 and it represent LOVE. *BIG sigh* Shoot fire I'll take LOVE over DEATH any day!!!
So I began to ask the Lord what He wanted me to know about it. Some of it I'll share in later blogs but this one is gonna focus on one verse. (it's in the Bible a couple of times but...........)
Mark 12:31 The second is equally important:'Love your neighbor as yourself.'No other commandment is greater than these.' ( The first one is to love the Lord your God)
I was like "Ok Lord I get it. I need to love others! I'm on it. He said "NOPE lil Lady you do that part well. You HAVE to love yourself!!" WHAT THE WHAT????????" Isn't that prideful or arrogant or something???" "No m'am it's a commandment from ME." "But Lord........" " Really Ang do you wanna argue with ME? I AM that I AM." "Ok Lord I'm on it. But I'm telling you Lord, this is gonna be a lot harder than it looks!!! I don't really like me all that much so how in thunder am I supposed to love myself?" I LOVE how sweet the Lord is! He talks to me like we are BFFs! Well yesterday I did ask the Holy Spirit to be my BFF!! (great message from Robert Morris)
I am crying as I am typing this! One it's SUPER personal and I don't want to share that intimate of details about myself on the internet. Second this task that the Lord has set before me is way way way bigger than me. I don't even know where to begin....... Well I guess me getting this outta my body is a GREAT start! I'm stepping outta my laziness and fear into the wild blue yonder of 2016. I KNOW there is greatness to be had and I am choosing to be an active participant in my life!!!!
Happiest NEW year!!!!
