My Cup Runneth Over

• Thirsty? I know a place that provides free refills.
• There are times in our lives we become thirsty. Not physically, but spiritually. Tough times can harden the heart. Struggles in day to day life can create a thirst. Thirst for peace. Thirst for happiness. Thirst for content.
• Many attempt to quench their thirst the wrong way. Many think materialism will make them happy. So they pay for happiness. Acquiring "stuff" to fill a void. No matter how much is bought-that void is never filled. Only a quick high and another ache of want returns.
• The lonely and lost sometime find temporary love. It's a false love-not a true love. A toxic love that poisons the heart, that will never provide what a real love would.
• Some attempt to wash the pain down with alcohol and/or drugs. Usually this bad habit quickly becomes an addiction. Destroys families. That void is never filled, in fact-it becomes bigger. A deep dark hole that some never emerge from.
• The hardships of life can also cause sadness, withdrawing from friends and family, very often causing depression. What someone feels is just a "bad mood" slowly becomes a way of life. A darkness that many cannot find the light.
• This thirst for the love of our lives is in our hands, if we would offer it to Him.
• It's so simple. If we would just gladly offer our spiritual cup to the One who gives free refills. He will fill your heart and life with all you need, if you would just allow Him to.
• This is not something that comes easy to me. When I'm struggling and hurting, I have to remind myself what is lacking. I go to Him and He gives me more than I need. My cup runneth over.
  
• You may feel like you are in a dry place, but the Lord can still quench your thirst. He provides ample water. Even if you are lost in a spiritual desert. If you go to Him, He will provide you a waterfall.
  

• I pray that God, the source of hope will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in Him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the Power of the Holy Spirit.
• Romans 15:13
  
  

Over the Rainbow

• Do you ever feel like Dorothy? I do.
• Some days I feel like I'm lost and trying to find my way home. If you are at this point in your life, you probably know exactly what I mean. A tornado has whipped into your life and it changes who you are. I think everyone has that feeling from time to time. Maybe it's that you don't feel like you are being your true self, reaching your full potential. Perhaps it's that you aren't in the right job. Some may feel as though they are in the wrong relationship. Maybe you are coming out of a relationship and learning to adjust. Whatever it maybe, sometimes we are just trying to find our way back home.
• By going home I mean reaching your full potential. Becoming who you are meant to be. The tornado? Life experiences. Good and bad. That change you. Change your goals and dreams. The "lions, and tigers, and bears," are our fears. Fear of change. Fear of the unknown. Fear of what others might think. Fear of being hurt. They prevent you from walking down that path to get back home.
• It would be wonderful if we could be like Dorothy, click our ruby slippers and say, "There's no place like home," and we would open our eyes and wake up where we want to be. Wouldn't it?
  
  We can. We just have to follow the yellow brick road! The road being faith. The faith that God has a plan. Beyond the rainbow.
• You aren't alone. You have your friends to travel along that unknown path to find the way home. He gave us a heart. He gave us a brain. He gave us bravery. If we have the faith to do it.
• I'm ready if you're ready. Close your eyes and repeat after me. There's no place like home. There's no place like home.
• Now go find home. Go find you. The you that God meant for you to be. Go fly above the rainbow and reach your full potential.

Somewhere over the rainbow

Skies are blue

And the dreams that you dare to dream

Really do come true