Poised For Potential

  You grab your bag and rush out the door, jump into the car and get it started. You buckle up and fly up the driveway, turn right at the stop sign, left at the weird neighbor’s house, another right and, to your dismay, there is a turtle in the middle of the road. We have all been there. Your late for work or some activity, and you just want to get going, but that darn turtle is in the way. He’s moving too slow, and you hop out of the car to move him. Don’t! Don’t touch the turtle! Wait for it to cross. No, this did not just turn into a “save the turtles” article. The kind of turtle I am talking about is a metaphorical turtle. The “turtle” in this case, is a delay that keeps you from getting to point A to point B as fast as possible. As annoying as turtles are, they can be used by God to put you exactly where you need to be, when you need to be there, and even save your life. In the past few weeks, God has put many turtles in our way, and they saved us from getting into...

  We all know what it’s like to want to stand out.  We want to be looked at as different from everyone else, we want to be unique.  We all want to be special in our own way and be remembered because we did something different from the crowd. What if I told you that you don’t have to wear crop tops and skinny jeans and dye your hair 30 different colors to achieve the desire to be unique?  Well, get ready because I am about to. Picture this. You’re in a large room, with a bunch of people in it. Each one of them has different colored hair. Some have TONS of makeup on, some have little to none, and each one has less clothing on than the last. You go into the bathroom and look in the mirror.   You’re wearing a T-shirt that covers your collar bone, you’re wearing a pretty skirt that goes below your knees. Your hair is your own natural color. You look down at your shoes.  They aren’t the shoes that look like you glued bricks on your feet and paint...