Live. Love. Lead.

     For the past couple of weeks I have allowed myself to get blindingly distracted.  Usually, my summer months are times of almost effortless refreshment in the presence of God, feasting on His word and allowing His peace to reign in my heart through prayer.  But, this summer has been a wrestling match...in so many ways.  I have had to get more disciplined in listening for and obeying the voice of the Holy Spirit.  I have to deliberately work at removing the things, situations, and people that I allowed to cloud my view of my Heavenly Father.      In the midst of these weeks, I "happened" to be reading Jeremiah 32.  Here's one message that stood out to me, "To Me they turned their back and not their face..." (Jer. 32:33). After a handful of challenging situations I teetered between doubting God's plan and believing His purpose.  The Holy Spirit convicted me with this statement by saying--"Brandy, stop turning your back to Me...

     An advisor once told me, "If you focus on everything then you're focused on nothing." Over the past year and half I have thought about that statement...a lot.       Many times it is easy for us to get caught up in so many dreams of how to make things better.  In and of themselves those dreams are not bad, but they can become problematic if we lose our focus on the G-D who created and empowers us to fulfill a purpose that He lovingly made for us.      The L-RD is working His plan via all the people, circumstances, struggles, and triumphs that He intentionally places in our lives in order to instigate transformation. Yet, all too often we lose focus when we zone in on all the things around us to such the degree that we analyze them as individual events; rather than significant strands of a unified cord called----purpose.       There is nothing random that happens in life; every spec of our existence is uniq...