Reflect the SON...

Be like the MOON...Reflect the SON today.

Little Faces

These are the faces of my life.

These are the little faces that I go to sleep dreaming about, and awake thinking about every morning.

These are the faces who consume my prayers.

These are the faces that God has entrusted to my care. How I love these faces!

How these little faces humble me in ways greater than I care to admit. In these faces are such honesty, purity, and faith. These faces trust without question. They believe without doubt!

These little faces forgive and forget...no matter what happens, they are so willing to let it go and love unconditionally!

These are the faces that inspire me to live daily for my Creator! I don't want to mess these little faces up! I want to live out a love much greater than human minds can comprehend in front of these little faces. I want to show them the WAY!

My prayer for these little faces is that they will grow deeply and passionatly in love with Jesus. I want the only thing of true importance in these little faces to be their awe-inspiring devotion to the Maker of Heaven and Earth.

These are my favorite faces in all the world. My heart could burst sometimes b/c of the overwelming love I have for these little faces! Thank You Father for allowing me such precious little faces to love, to enjoy, to spoil, to teach, to mold into Your image. May I never take these little faces for granted!


(Oh, and I'm kinda fond of the big face too! He is one awesome daddy! He plays a huge role in these little faces lives! So thankful for this man of God! These little faces are blessed b/c of him!)

Leave it and Trust....

I have fallen once again. I have failed...miserably. I ask for an answer...and He is faithful to give me one...yet I take no heed. I run ahead instead of following close behind. I take the lead away from the Faithful Lead. And in the midst of my "striving" and "doing"...I mess things up in grand fashion! If only I had of stopped. If only I had of kept silent. If only...but all the "if only's" are lost in the middle of my tears. I acted without trusting. I, once again, took things into my own hands and thought I could handle them better than the Creator of Heaven and earth. The Maker, the Life-Giver, the Lover of Souls and Changer of Hearts...did I really presume that I could make anything better than HIM? Of course not! But my actions prove otherwise. My worrying and fretting got the best of me...and standing in a foot deep of muck and mess, I can hear the gentle shake of the Master's head.

STOP BLAIR! "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him...and He will direct your paths!" Proverbs 3:5-6.

This I know...it resounds in the deeps of my soul...yet my foolish heart got ahead. I didn't like His timing...and I made a mess of His plan.

Forgive me Lord. Please create beauty from this mess I've made. I surrender. Wash over me. I lay it back down...I NAIL it back down...cuz I know that I have a tendency to "pick it back up" and try and carry it on my own.

I love You Father. Thank You for loving me...because I know that I don't deserve it.

All For His Glory!

Another week ended...a new one begun. So many emotions lay raw on the surface of my heart. Tears have spilled endlessly...prayers lifted without cease. A life lived with such grace and beauty, has now been promoted to heaven, to dance with the angels and sit at the feet of Jesus. In one single breath, a life is removed from this earthly shell and is eternity bound...forever in the presence of the One who gave that breath and took it away! A blink. A vapor. A breath. And it is gone.

Our dear and precious friend, Linda Freel, went homeward to be with our Lord Saturday morning. In life, she glorified her Savior daily. She lived out her faith with love and passion. She loved her family, her husband, her friends, and her students with a love much greater than herself. She was devoted to prayer...to praising her King...to sharing her faith with a lost and dying world. She lived Christ. "For to live is Christ, and to die is gain." We will miss her but rejoice that her faith is now sight!

Her life was lived to show others The Way...and in her death, God's glory was revealed much greater than human mind could ever have imagined. In South Korea, it is almost unheard of to donate organs. Linda was an organ donor. She was able to save the lives of 4 others through donor transplant. The Korean media was so inspired by this story that they asked to broadcast her story on their main news channels. In her death, 50 million people were able to hear the gospel message!

We may not understand why God does what He does. We may not understand His timing. We may not understand His ways. But one thing we must understand is this. We were created for God's glory. His glory alone. And all that He does is to reveal His glory...to show His glory...to make His glory known! Linda lived a life honoring God...allowing Him to make His glory known through her life. And in taking His daugher home, God used her life, even in death, to make His glory known.

I praise our God that He is soverign. He is in control and I trust that. No matter what I don't understand...I understand that I love this Creator who designed the heavens and the earth. I trust in Him with all my heart. He is God. This is His story...and I am just a part of His eternal plan. So I will live this life giving Him the glory that is due His name!

(Thank You Mrs. Freel for the life you lived, the life you dedicated to making His Glory Known!)

Praying...

My heart is heavy. Tears fall freely as I type my thoughts out...legs crossed...computer in my lap. My world is quiet for a brief moment...but my mind whirls in constant prayer!

A dear and beautiful friend, Linda Freel, is lying in a hospital bed thousands of miles away fighting for the very breath I take for granted. Yesterday morning she was laughing with her husband, her son, her friends. Her mind was filled with thoughts of the day, preparations and things that needed to be done. Her heart was filled with tenderness towards her Savior, love for her husband, and prayers for her children. It was just another ordinary day...until...until...

Linda suffered a brain aneurysm yesterday morning and is struggling for life. The doctors have given her little hope...her family is waiting...watching...hanging on. It is a tragedy! So sudden. No one was prepared...how do you prepare for something like this anyway? Her community has banded together in prayer! Her friends and family stand watch, waiting to see what God has planned for this precious daughter.

But in the middle of everything, I give thanks. I thank You, Jesus, for a woman who has lived her life with faithfulness and love for her Creator! I thank You, Lord, for a family who has dedicated their lives to further the gospel to the ends of the earth! I thank You, God, for the Freels! They have impacted so many! I see in them You, sweet Savior! Your goodness, Your grace, Your awesome and tender mercy! I see in them a perseverance for their faith! A family who lives each moment to bring You glory, to make You known!

And so...as my spirit grieves and hopes all at the same time...I will put my trust in a God who created the heavens and earth! I will trust in His faithfulness, His miracle-working ways, His sovereignty and might! And just as the 3 Hebrew boys stated to the kind in Daniel 3 "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire, and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But EVEN IF HE DOES NOT, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up." May we rise up and give God glory! For whatever He chooses, He is God!

Make Your Glory known this day, most holy God!

You Are Here...

My soul is hushed by Your Spirit's roaring whisper. I feel Your embrace of peace nestle softly over my heart, blanketing me into Your heavenly promise! You are here. In this room. IN this moment. You are here! I feel You breathing Your life into my very existence! Every heartbeat is inspired by You alone! You are here. And as my fingertips dance over these keys, I give You glory and praise for this life You have given me to live. I lift up a song of adoration for Your presence that is upon me now. Because this life would be nothing, without your constant presence, guiding me and molding me into Your daughter of royalty.

Thank You for this moment of quiet fellowship this day. In a world busy with rushed hurry, it delights my spirit to sit at Your feet and drink You in! This moment of being here with You make all the other moments joyous and remarkable. Why? B/c I am able to carry Your glory to each corner of every other minute in my day and sparkle from the splendor of being in Your presence! Thank You sweet and precious Lord!

Watching Him Fight The Battles

Exodus 14:14 "The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent." God was speaking this morning through His Word and I had to humbly give Him glory! Sometimes we ask for an answer yet we don't like the one we get! It is hard to stand aside and allow God to do the work, when we in our hearts want so badly to "fix" things...to "change" the ones we love! But God is into the "miracle-working" buisness! IT is one of His specialties! So why do I, in my lowly and humanly ways, think I can do anything on God's behalf? He is the miracle worker! He is the Lord! He is the Lover of Souls, the Changer of Hearts, the Drawer of man! It is He alone Who can call men unto Himself!

I can live out His love! I can intercede on other's behalf! I can gently and faithfully follow Christ in front of the ones I want to see changed! But I can not change them! Only God can! "He will fight for me while I keep silent!" That is a hard one for me! I like to talk and explain and express and persuade! And I don't like to wait! I want to see that change RIGHT NOW! But God has His own timing...His own ways...and they are much higher and more lofty than my own!

So, this girl is gonna wait on my Lord! I am gonna pray and seek Him with all my heart! I am gonna watch Him fight the battles while I keep silent and worship Him! And all the while, the passion in my soul will be set aflame, and the stirring in my heart will be ablaze...and I will fall more madly in love with Him each second of each and every day!

There You Are...

In a world where sin reigns all around...where schedules and "to do" lists fill our hearts and minds...where we are always looking forward to the next big event as our moments slip by unnoticed...in a world where we seek after our own interests daily while pretending about the cares of those around us...we fail to see God in all His glory! But He is there! He is daily showing off His majesty...and as His creation screams His glory... the question remains...do we see? Will we take the time to "Be still and know that He is God!"



The past 10 days were amazing for me. My sweet husband took me to Hawaii and while I was there, God did a fresh and miraculous work in my heart! He spoke...and I listened! And He revealed so much...this girl has a lot of changing to do! But I am excited...I am ready!

And There You Are, Precious Lover Of My Soul...

...in the mighty wave as it crashes against a rocky shoreline, showcasing Your POWER AND MIGHT!
...in a break in the clouds, where Your glory comes shining through like a rainfall of LIGHT!

...in the intricate beauty of a single flower, so diverse and divine!

...in the way You show off Your love for uniqueness and splendor as You dot the mountainside with splashes of thousands of colors!

There You Are, Precious Lover of My Soul...


...in the brightly colored red-headed bird, as he hops, pauses and sings out his "tweet" as if to say JUST TO ME..."Yep, we were both created just for HIM! Isn't He grand!" And then flys off to parade his beauty to another bystander needing a quick reminder of the glory of our Creator!
...in a picture of perfect serenity beckoning my soul to a peace which surpasses all human understanding! ...in the vast expanse of the last orange sunset as it sinks silently behind an endless sea of waves, bidding farewell to another year gone by.

...in the colors of pink stretched across the first sunrise of a new year...welcoming all possiblities and providing hope for better things yet to come!

There You Are, Precious Lover of My Soul...and my prayer is that I am always seeking Your face. May I bask in Your glory and live every breath proclaiming Your Name to the ends of the earth.