Lizzy's Footprints

      Often we forget to breath, we forget to take a step back and see things outside of our personal worlds.  It is hard to go every way at once.  There is a need and craving all around us for love, for peace, for justice and for so much more.  What gets you out of your seat?  What calls you to conquer the world, and spread the much needed love?  Do you refuse to hear that call?  I encourage you to refuse to sit around, this week refuse to let the world around you go unloved.  Many prayers are said in passing, or they pass off our lips as we pray before we shove food in our faces.  Most of all my friends,  why would you wait for someone else  to do what GOD called YOU to do?   Each of us are a different set of hands and feet that God has made for a unique purpose and a unique time.  I can guarantee that my weakness are your strengths or vice versa.  I'm not saying that it won't be hard.  So...

     As life seams to speed up and the week comes to a close this song comes into my mind.  The world will always pull us deeper in but we are our best selves when we give God the rains and let Him tug on our hearts.  Pastor Charles Stanley once said, "Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally.  Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do."  The world is all about quick fixes, but God knows that our pain, or problems can be solved with his love.  Our Messiah came to fix our messes.  All we have to do is clear our stages and fix our eye toward our king. Listen to this song with an open heart, and open mind: "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." - Romans 12:2       This is the constant battle all Christians face.  Not falling into the...