Do you like the word OBIDIENCE? Yes, none of us probably really and truly do.
But what if you pictured the word as if you were standing in front of a huge beautiful mansion.
A mansion God has every beautiful thing inside to be imagined.

But in order to get through the doors, effort has to be made.
You have to get a little scared, get the butterflies of uncertainty in your stomach,
You have to just close your eyes, take a deep breath…and then walk inside.

This is what I’ve come to more understand what the word, ” obedience” means. It isn’t this horrid word, if we can see
what can come from it.

This new life here in Georgia; I can confidently say it happened because I was obedient and left FL as soon as God took ahold of my hand. I should tell you I thought it was me that was all about coming to Savannah. I thought God was just going to bless me while i was here, because it was the desire of my heart to move here eventually.
But what I have learned since being here, is that God’s desires and our desires for our lives…can be the same.

Its about where we place our feet that matters. Its about where we consciously can take our minds to imagine.
It’s about looking at possibilities as realities. Its about walking through the fog without wondering if there is a wall on the otherside. It’s about faith.

Faith is the foundation. You have to believe in something, but you have to KNOW what you believe also.

Think of a broken down house, the windows and the doors broken, and the floorboards rotting.
On the outside the house painted beautifully and the garden kept.

Its easy to keep the outside of who we are sparkling, in a fascad of make up, but we are dying inside. Who we are on the inside if not kept up in something positive, and encouraging…then it too would look like a broken down house.

We have to make the effort to not just obey, but to also take initiative to do better for ourselves.

Your past may have created who you are, but your past doesn’t make who you are on a daily basis. YOU are the one
who decides that you want to dwell on all your past mistakes and behaviors. Its a choice.

When I was a substitute teacher my rule was this. We all have choices in life, choices to do well, and have respect for ourselves and others, or we can choose not to. Regardless, its is a choice. But with each choice comes a result.
I was clear in telling the students that it was their choice in who they wanted to show the world that they were like.

So what is your foundations set on?

Are you standing on a rocky surface that could fall at any moment and take your dreams with it?
OR are you standing at a place where you can honestly have no regret, and take it all one day at a time?

My foundation is set by who I have chosen to be in my life. It might not always be easy to be on this journey where
I am not quite sure what will happen next, but I do know that very way of thinking and praying has gotten me this far.
I am okay sticking with it.
And sure sometimes there will be a wall on the otherside, but even walls can be taken down.

I would like to introduce you now to my next guest blog poster. She is a long time friend in blogworld.
Her name is Darla(www.http://4evrhis.wordpress.com, and she is what I would have to say is an ” overcomer” she has dealt with so much in her life, and I admire that she has been able to keep her faith through all of it.
I remember her comments on my blog a few years ago. She would always start it by calling me, ” Princess” and anyonelse she would comment to. Its a word that means worth and value.
Darla, thank you for being apart of this:) it blesses my heart!

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My Thoughts on Faith