Start simply but Simply Start...with Your Heart

 

Here is a place to ponder and reflect on your life as a lifegiving woman. I have asked myself these questions many times. I find they help redirect me to what is really important and how I need to be living. Remember sometimes the greatest miracle is just a perspective change.

    Asking the right questions leads us to the right answers.

 There is no shame here…only a fresh place to start. Ask the Holy Spirit to open your heart to His voice…to what needs to be addressed in your life…and then with loving abandon fall into the arms of your Ultimate lifegiver…Jesus Christ….who takes all things broken and creates life from them…yes not inspite of them… but because of them.

Lifegiving questions

 1. I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am?

 2. I honest in all my acts and words or do I exaggerate?

 3. Do I confidently pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?

 4. Can I be trusted?

 5. Am I a slave to dress, friends, work or habits?

 6. Am I self-conscious, self-pitying or self-justifying?

  7. Did the bible live in me today?

  8. Do I give it time to speak to me everyday?

  9. Am I enjoying my prayer time?

  10. When did I last speak to someone else about my faith?

  11. Do I pray about the money I spend?

  12. Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?

 13. Do I disobey God in anything?

 14. Do I insist upon doing something which my conscience is uneasy with?

 15. How do I spend my spare time? Do I make room for down time…. time to be interrupted by people and God?

 16. Am I proud and un-teachable?

  17. Do I thank God that I am not as other people?

 18. Is there anyone I fear, dislike, disown, criticize hold a resentment towards or disregard?

 19. Is so what am I doing about it?

 20. Do I grumble or complain constantly?

  21. Do I try to control what others think, say, do or feel? Am I willing to release people and let God deal with them?</span>

  22. Am I growing to be the lifegiving woman I have been created to be…embracing the beauty of compost and all?</span>

 

 Pray this with me

 Father I know I am not longer my own but I belong to You.

 Put me with whom You will, rank me with whom You desire.

 It is your will I long for. Put me to doing….put me to suffering….let me be employed for You or laid aside for You, exalted for you or brought low for You.

 Let me be full…yes let me be empty let me have all things….let me have nothing. I freely and heart fully yield all things to your pleasure and disposal.

 And know O glorious and blessed Father God, Son and Holy Spirit, You are mine and I am Yours.