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Look down at the Small- Stand up for what's big.

The most incredible things happen in your life, when you say yes to God. 
The most unexpected and unbelievable things happen in your life, when you say yes to God. 
If I was to sum up my entire Christian faith into 1 word, I believe I would choose surrender. 
In all reality, that is what surrender means- saying yes to God. 
By doing so, I wake up and start my day, with the confidence that I believe God knows what's best for my life-way more than I do, and I am willing to trust Him with anything and everything that comes my way.
By saying yes to God, I am willing to go along with what I understand to be His plans for my life. 
Saying yes also does another thing-- it causes me to have to say no to myself. 
Because in all honesty, what gets in my way everyday is myself. 
When I get in the way of a specific thing God is calling me to do--yeah, that's when it gets real dangerous. 
For the past week I have danced around both, saying yes to God and saying no to myself. I honestly don't know why...maybe I thought if I just didn't answer it exactly, the right answer would just happen. 
News flash. It doesn't... 
All God was trying to do was answer what I have been praying like crazy about. Talk about being stubborn sally. 
Answering yes, meant leaving a ministry I love so much. 
Answering yes meant walking away from something so promising and comfortable, and walking into something so blind and new.
WAKE UP LEXI- that's what you're called to do!
ha-oh yeah it is isn't it? That whole surrender- faith thing I have been rationalizing..that's awkward.
Finally, I stopped playing dumb.
I sat in my room, closed my eyes, and focused on nothing but my breathing. I eventually had no thoughts, worries, or desires running through my mind. All I could get out was, "Yes. Okay God. I am ready to hear what you have to say."
Needless to say, God has never been so clear and evident in my life before. 
When I said yes, things started happening.
Multiple prayers were answered and all day I caught myself asking, "Is this real life?" 

God. is. faithful.--when you think He's not, you're not letting Him be.


The more I think about what God has shown me this past week, I realize how saying yes is the door through which knowledge and love enter my mind.  


Learn to say no to the good- so you can say yes to the best.

Focus Me Diligent

dil·i·gence

¹    [dil-i-juhns] 

noun

1.

constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent exertion of body or mind.

2.

 . the degree of care and caution required by the circumstances of a person.

My prayer is to become a lady of diligence for the Lord. 

 We cannot have diligence without a dedicated, devoted heart to the Lord.

 The quality of diligence comes out of a heart and life that is committed to "presenting our bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God... and transformed by the renewing of our mind, so that we may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect". --Romans 12:1-2

I wish I could make them see

Ladies--
It's not who you are that holds you back,
It's who you think you are not.

Believe in yourself.
God does.

You are more important and beautiful than you will ever realize.

You are loved.

Today.

Nothing takes the past away like the future.--

Something that has been ringing in my head all day today.

I know it may not make sense whatsoever, or sound oddly weird, when it comes to how I break things down and view it; I know it may be different, but I find beauty in different; And God's reminders are the most beautiful thing to me...

There are days when I can't seem to shake away life's distractions or struggles; and that is when it's almost like a layer of fog surrounds my hope.

Hope is everything to me. Hope is what changed me. Hope gave me a purpose. Hope is my strength. Hope is the reason I smile today.

My hope, is my Jesus.

The fog keeps me from seeing the rainbow that I have been promised.

Fog is something I have to learn to admit. It's all too easy to hide it behind a smile.

And ya know... it is okay to show weakness. It's healthy. It's normal.

Don't hide a layer of fog behind a smile...because before you know it, it will be multiple layers.

When we hide behind a smile, we convince ourselves that we are okay-- And on those days that we just can't shake it, the rainbow we convinced ourselves that we once saw, seems like it was all a lie. Then we doubt hope. And we dream of the past.

There was a point today that I caught myself dreaming. I thought I was going to be sick because my heart was breaking all over from the re-runs and absent butterflies.

All I could get out was, "God, get me off this roller coaster. I thought it was over...please."

Then I smiled.

Needless to say, God woke me up from that dream right then and simply reminded me of all the other many times I have been faced with this so-called "fog."

Smiling is inevitable when I think about those times.

I couldn't believe I had let myself wonder how long I was going to be pulled down by this struggle, even the slightest bit.

God is so faithful.

And for that I am thankful.

The rainbow ALWAYS shows up where there is hope.

Sprint into the unknown--because after we choose to and we take off with the first step, hope shines through-- and it never fails.

I am not saying it is going to be easy.

But--I'm saying it's going to be worth it.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Simplicity please.

Fact.