Swim

Christmas time
Is floating past
Reminding us
The year is ending fast
It will soon be time
To take stock and do
A 365 day review
Will this year end
On track
Or off
For you

Christmas reminds us of many things: the value of family, friends, love, and precious gifts unseen. It also reminds us there is only one week left in the year. We have either made progress on our hopes, dreams, and goals or watched them sink into that endless hole of “tomorrow I will start, tomorrow I will do that, tomorrow….”

Maybe you’ve reached some of your goals.

Maybe life took some of your hope away unexpectedly.

Maybe some of your dreams are stuck in tomorrow land.

As the last week of this year sails in, why not set an intention, dive in, plan to achieve your wildest dreams in 2023?

“Stop waiting for your ship to come in. Dive in. Swim out and get it!”

E.A. Fussell
12.25.2022

Matthew 7:7&8

Claim your Key

What binds you
Locks you down
Hinders you
Keeps you from achieving
Your highest and best self

Words are powerful
They creep into your mind
Take shape in your reality
If your heart believes them

Guard your heart
Renew your mind

Ignore negative words
From others
End self defeating talk
In your own mind

Claim your key
The gift of authority
To release yourself
And bind that which
Seeks to steal, kill, destroy

The Messenger arrived
In the form of a child
Grew into a miracle worker
Was sacrificed for you

Your ability thru Him
Has boundless power
Knowledge, understanding Wisdom, creativity and love

Break your locks
Live free

E.A. Fussell
12.24.2022

Proverbs 4:23
Romans 12:2
Matthew 16:19
John 3:16

are you a wing or a weight ?

Think about your words.

Are you a wing or a weight?

Do your words lift others up or tear them down?

The tongue is a two edged sword. We can use it to speak life or to bring destruction. There are times when destruction is called for but today focus on lifting at least one person up.

This world bombards us with messages of hopelessness. What might happen if every Believer encouraged at least one person each day? We have the gift of hope to share with a hopeless world.

Let us enter into our prayer closet to do battle, then come out and spread hope around like confetti wherever our feet or our wheels take us.

Be a wing today, lift someone up

E.A. Fussell

01.14.2023

Love like you believe it

Believer, remember today, your flaws and shortcomings are covered by grace and mercy. There is unlimited strength, knowledge and understanding inside you. You have unlimited wealth and Kingdom ways available to you for the asking.

When the enemy tries to whisper or shout in your ear reminding you of your weakness and lack of understanding, telling you that you aren’t worthy or that you will fail, shut him up with the authority you inherited as a child of the King. You are fully justified to walk proudly in the freedom of forgiveness.

The accuser does not have access to your mental realm. Your thoughts are under your own control. Your flesh is under your own control. You have the power of the Spirit to master the way you control yourself. You have the mercy, grace and love of our master Creator covering you.

Whatever you need to get through today will be poured out upon you. You have only to ask, seek and receive. Receiving is up to you. It is an action you must take. Sometimes our blessing is there but we block it by not being able to receive. There are many ways to hinder our own blessings. Negative self-talk fueled by negative thinking is one of the most common. Recalling past sins or tragedies is another. Let go of the whip you are beating yourself with. Christ took those stripes on the cross so you could be free from them and experience joy.

Believe it.

Live like you believe it.

E.A. Fussell

12.18.2022

1 Corinthians 1:30-31

2 Peter 1-4

Pieces of thoughts

Pieces

Fragments

Dividing

Moving

Dimming light into darkness

Changing darkness into light

Our brain

Has many chambers

Impacting all areas of our life

Our mind

Drifts in and out

Of these chambers

What we focus on

Can bring us down or lift us up

Our thoughts are dynamic

We control our mind

We can change our thoughts

And thereby change our lives

E.A. Fussell

12.02.2022

Rebel

Nature shows us

There is a need for

Universal rules

As part of the

Ordered chaos

Supporting all forms of life

On our planet

I respect nature’s rules

And I try to abide by

Spiritual ones

But I will always

Rebel against

Certain rules of man

The ones that limit us

From being all that we can

E.A. Fussell

11.28.2022

Fence sitting before flight

Perched precariously

Between two futures

Straddling the fence

Not knowing which way to go

Wanting to sit comfortably still

Resting for a spell

Knowing I never will

Praying for direction

Before I take flight

It’s time to catch the wind

Spread my wings

And soar to new heights

E.A. Fussell

11.27.2022

Aging female songs

Perimenopause

Menopause

Postmenopause

Songs of an aging female

Life plays many versions of these tunes

Whether we like them or not

Expanding

Contracting

Expanding

Like an accordion

Our bodies are constantly changing

Often beyond our control

Life pushes our buttons

Squeezes

Pulls

Pushes some more

Keeping us ever wondering

What version of the song comes next

Good nutrition

Faithful exercise

Prayer and meditation

Cannot always sway

The radical hormonal changes

Life keeps playing, and playing, and playing

I am like an accordion

Trying to play my own tune, see a smaller point on the scale

But my hormones have shifted (again)

Now they prefer to expand

I am soaked thru with sweat, frustration, and a primal cry

Life doesn’t listen, it simply hangs me out to dry

E.A. Fussell

11.19.2022

Shoo them away

“You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.” Martin Luther

We can’t stop bad suggestions from entering our thought world, but we can choose not to dwell or act on them.

As we turn back our clocks today we are given an extra hour of opportunity.

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:2 KJV

This version

We are constantly transforming:
physically,
emotionally,
intellectually,
spiritually.

We don’t notice the small changes that are constantly happening until we look in the mirror one day and realize how quickly
all those little changes
have become visible.

Distractions abound. We are often focused on a chore, task, errand, goal while time keeps marching on and life keeps transforming with each passing year. Not just for us but for our loved ones too.

Sometimes the changes are subtle, sometimes profound, sometimes devastating. We never really know what any given day may bring our way.

Let’s take some time to appreciate the current version
of ourselves,
our family,
our friends,
our life.

E.A. Fussell
10.29.2022