Treasure & Delight

I am back to writing again and I am a new mama! Eek! I still can't believe I have MY OWN child.  There is so much on my heart these days but not enough time to write so getting this done felt like a huge accomplishment! I will be writing about how my journey on motherhood has been so far but for today, there is something I really feel God wants me to share with you because He shared it with me during one of my 3am nursing sessions so I know it was NOT my own thoughts in my delirious half asleep state😄 Holy Spirit began speaking to me about how one of the most important things a new believer can do is to learn the characteristics of God.   To know who God is and his nature.  To grow and establish a healthy relationship with Him. Doing so will help us to understand who He really is and allow us to enjoy Him and the relationship He desires to have with us.   It will get us through difficult times in our lives when things don’t make sense.   I believe one ...

Today I want to share what I think is the most important, most intimate part of the journey I have taken with God.  This story here is one of those fork in the road moments in life.  I had two choices and I chose Jesus and it has led me to the life I have now.  So grab some coffee, tea or popcorn.  It’s a long one! For this story we need to go back to 2011, when I was freshly single after being in a 6 year dysfunctional relationship.  To make that very long story short – I had a moment in the relationship where I realized I was living a very mediocre life and I felt a stirring in my spirit God had so much more for me.  So I did the very hard thing and walked away from the toxic relationship and soon after I started to see my life going from mediocre to extraordinary.  I began going to church alone which was a huge deal for me  because I dealt with a fear doing things alone.  I decided to take a risk and attend services alone and that is...

We took our maternity photos yesterday and I am IN LOVE with them.  You can see the dress I mentioned in my previous blog .  It was even better than I expected on the day of!! We did kind of a two in one here with our photos.  Yesterday was my second wedding anniversary and when the photographer offered the 23rd as an available date for photos I felt like there would be something special about it.  At first I was hesitant because I wanted to make our anniversary about us and not have the pregnancy or baby take over our marriage but when I prayed I felt something special would take place.  And so it did.  Getting dressed up, doing my hair and make up and unexpectedly receiving a pearl necklace and earrings from my husband as an anniversary gift (worn in photos) made it feel like a wedding day all over again.  Plus I may be biased but I feel like our love for each other and it being our anniver...

I have no idea where time went.  This week I enter 28 weeks pregnant, putting me into my third trimester.  When I found out I was pregnant the third trimester sounded a little daunting to me.  And now here I am.  Nothing of my pregnancy is what people have made it out to be.  I thought it was going to be this terrible experience where you are moody all the time, hate your husband, feel ugly, and have cravings that take over your life.  It has so not been the case for  me.  I have felt like my normal self about ninety percent of the time, with the occasional melt downs, but those happened when I was not pregnant so I don't think it's fair to blame that on pregnancy.  Besides that I have felt beautiful, grown more in love with my husband, and feel so honored to be able to create life inside of me.  What is there to be so miserable about that?  I stop to think about what my body is actually doing, creating a WHOLE HUMAN and I think w...

I am clearing out your heart.   Over the years so much has entered your heart and stayed there.   Not by choice.   You didn’t want it to stay but it did.   The past proved that it should be allowed to stay to protect you.   Your soul thought it was doing you a favor by protecting you – but it was really building walls.   My child, understand all this wall building happens subconsciously.   This is the dangerous part, but there is a way around it.   There is protection from this and the protection is Me .   See, as you have been seeking me, as you have been giving me your heart and allowing me in My Spirit has been at work.   He is the one who clears out your heart.   The more and more you seek my face, call out for help, desire my heart, and surrender yourself to me, the more I can protect you.   You are beginning to hear me whisper to you when walls try to form.   You feel a tug on your heart and you are seeing what...