The Ultimate Director

We have a clipboard in our hands
We are now the official director of the play
Yet, God was supposed to be the director
We shove Him off the stage
We grab the clipboard and pen out of His hand
We start scrawling furiously, marking out His plans
We take our place on the stage and start casting roles
We say, "You need to go there
And you need to go here
I’d like you to play the part of Juliet
I’d like you to play the part of Romeo
You need to play this character or that"
We cast the whole play
The time for the performance of the play comes
It is disastrous
No one knows where they are supposed to go
Everyone forgets their lines
We get mad and ask God, "Why didn’t you bless us?"
Why didn’t you let us have a good play performance?"
His answer, “Because you took me out of the show.”
Suddenly we realize how foolish it was for us to take the role of the director in our lives
We had selfishly cast the characters on our own
Sometimes God switches the roles of characters
Yet, it is all planned perfectly and in His will when He directs it
Sometimes God moves characters to a different scene because He knows it will make the play better
Yet, His casting is perfect
Why don’t we step aside and let Him direct?

-Written by Stacie (2010)

God's beautiful creation

The beauty of God's creation

should be a reminder of how loving God is.

He could have made everything black and white.......

Yet, he chose to use beautiful, vibrant colors

Because He loves us

He loves us SO much that

He gave His only Son.....

So that we could be forgiven of our sins.....

And have fellowship with God.......

And have everlasting life.

May God bless you today and always,

Stacie

My Testimony

I have been very fortunate to have been raised by godly parents. They taught me about Jesus ever since I was very young and I have been in church all my life. When, I was six years old I made a decision. However, later I realized I hadn’t truly understood the plan of salvation. I knew I wanted to go to heaven, but I really didn’t understand what it meant to follow Jesus and to become a Christian.
At the age of eleven, I had been feeling convicted for quite a while. However, I wasn’t sure why, because I thought I was already a Christian. It was on August 13, 2003 that I realized that I was lost and was a sinner. On that Tuesday morning, I knelt down in my living room and cried out to God and asked Him to save me. Tears were trickling down my face as I experienced salvation. The curtains were open in our living room, and the sun was pouring in. Just as the sun was pouring into the windows, Jesus was pouring His light into my soul. As I was praying, I experienced a peace that I had never felt before.
After becoming a Christian, it doesn’t stop there. Jesus wants us to grow closer to Him. Recently, I realized how my life needs to be totally and completely surrendered to God. I want only what is in His will for my life. With many important decisions coming up, I want to make sure that I am right where God wants me to be. I desire to have more of a thirst for God’s Word. We can never be too passionate about Him. I pray that I will fall more and more in love with Jesus every day of my life. It amazes me and leaves me speechless that the omnipotent God indwells me. Christ gave His all for us, so we must give our all to Jesus. I praise Jesus Christ for the gift of salvation that He has freely given for all mankind. My life has never been the same since I got saved!!

16 days.......

Hello everyone. I hope ya'll are doing great!!! I am very excited about Christmas! It is SO incredible that God sent His one and only Son for us!!! What an awesome God to send us a Savior to save us from our sins. We have so much to celebrate at Christmas! The Savior of the world came as a baby so He could die for us one the cross. His gift of salvation is free to everyone and if you don't know Him, he wants you to accept His gift!! It is the greatest gift you will ever recieve!!!! Jesus came and died on the cross for our sins. Salvation is here.....Will you accept the gift?

Love God...Love People.

I am a Child of the King

Verse 1:
Who am I?
Jesus, why am I here?
I only wish to be near You; to be near Your wounded side.
Why did You, my King, have to die?
Thank You for Your love,
But tell me who am I?

Chorus:
I'm falling in love with the King of the Universe.
I sing to You my song of praise.
That's what I am, and who I am.
Yeah, that is who I will always be.
At your side is where I will forever be.
That's my only desire.
Everything else is fading away
I fall face down at Your blood stained feet.
You showed me that I am in You, and You are in me.
That is who I am.

Verse 2:
I ask You, "Where am I?"
Am I in the center of Your will?
Have I been running from You this long?
To be in Your shadow is where I belong.

Verse 3:
Who should I be?
Who am I now?
At Your nail pierced feet, I run back to you and surrender.
When I hear Your voice and I see Your smile, I run into Your open arms.
Tears fill my eyes and trickle down my face.
It is in that moment, I realize Who I am, and Whose I am.

Bridge:
Who am I?
"Jesus, forever I am yours."
And forever will forever be.

Chorus:
I'm falling in love with the King of the Universe.
I sing to You my song of praise.
That's what I am, and who I am.
Yeah, that is who I will always be.
At your side is where I will forever be.
That's my only desire.
Everything else is fading away
I fall face down at Your blood stained feet.
You showed me that I am in You, and You are in me.
That is who I am.

-Written by Stacie (2007)

Empty

He doesn't know that there is another way

Everything he's tried won't work

He thinks that money will buy him happiness

He thinks that finding his talent will show the world

 Yet the hole remains

All the empty space

The world is crashing in around him

He drowns because of the sorrow

He thinks he will drink his pain away

Yet it doesn't go away

It just becomes deeper

He can't get rid of it

A bigger hole remains

Emptiness is all he can find

Empty beer bottles

Empty dreams

Empty promises....

The alcohol isn't the answer

He only craves more

The drugs aren't the answer

The addictions only become bigger and bigger in his life

Gambling to get what he thinks he needs

Yet the hole in his heart remains

It hurts so much

And he aches so

But does he really know

What the answer is in his life?

He's learned that pride isn't the answer

It only led him to destruction

Drinking won't stop the tears

That stream down his face

Nor will it numb his pain
 

The empty bottles lay scattered across the floor

Parties with people that he won't even remember
Nights with women whose names he didn't know

The tears never stop

The hurt never ceases

The hole in his heart stabs harder

He falls deeper and deeper into sin

He doesn't know what caused it

He tries hard to push against the walls

But he can't knock them down                        

The empty room only gets smaller

And it's getting harder to breathe

Because he can't run away........

He knows that something is wrong with him

That something is wrong with the world

He realizes that everyone tries to give him something to fill him up
Yet, he still feels alone

He doesn't realize WHO can fill him up

Who can take his pain and emptiness away

So, he falls deeper and deeper

And it's that much harder to find happiness
because everything seems empty

The pictures begin to disappear from the frames on the wall

He stumbles along through the road of life

Not knowing which way to go

Confused

He stops at the intersection staring at which direction to take

Hurt cause he's falling

Crumbling....

Suffocating.....

Getting harder to breathe

Running from everything he's tried to make him happy

He wrestles in his own sin

The bottle isn't the answer

It just becomes empty

The world screams at him that everyone is that way

He thinks he has no choice

But to live life like he is

While his life rushes by him

And he cries

His years are whizzing by

Sobbing

Choking tears back

That he's tried to hide

But he can't hide them anymore

Cause he can't find the answer

To to why his heart hurts so much

He falls apart in an empty room

Tears fall upon the floor

He falls on his face wanting more

He needs Jesus

He is the One that will fill this emptiness up

God is the one who can truly give him happiness

He needs Jesus

He need His love

His mercy

How he needs to see God's love

But does he know of God's grace?
Does he know that Jesus is the ONLY way

The answer to his pain.....

Will someone tell him of the One that gave his life so that we can have life?

He lay there suffocating

Thinking emptiness is all there is to life

Everything comes crashing down

The empty pictures frames fall off the walls

Glass shatters all around him

He sobs desperately

Falling apart inside

With all the hurt that he is trying to hide

-Written by Stacie (2008)

"I am the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE.

No man comes to the Father except through me." -John 14:6

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. " -John 3:16-18

Time

If I only had a time machine
To go back in time
But would I really want to change it all?
Time moves on
The second hand keeps ticking
And the music keeps playing on your stereo
If I could only pause life
Admist the busy rushed world
If only there were a fast forward or rewind
But then we’d be in control
I guess that’s the problem anyhow
The second hand keeps ticking
And the music keeps playing through your stereo
I can’t pause anything
I just have to laugh that much more
Know God will work it out
Time moves on
Keep on dancing to the stars
Keep on singing and praising God
Don’t ever spend another minute wasted on bitterness
For unhappiness wastes your precious time
And it continues to play on
No rewind.
No fast forward.
When you make a mistake you can’t erase it
But God can forgive
And you can move on
Don’t waste a minute of laughter
Have a blast
Tell someone you love them
Ask someone to forgive you
The second hand keeps on ticking
Praise God that time moves on
If it didn’t I guess that we’d never live on the edge
I’m gonna live extreme
Time moves on
If the sun doesn’t shine tomorrow
I don’t have to worry
Cause I spent today in the joy of the Lord
Time moves on
The second hand keeps on ticking
And the music keeps playing through your stereo
So get out there and sing to it!

-Written by Stacie (2007)

Sanctity of Life

We become human beings at conception. Beginning at that moment, we are a life seen by God and knitted in our mother's womb. (Psalm 139:15-16) Our hearts begin to beat only weeks after we are conceived. We each have our own genetic code. Why do we see that it is alright to kill a life before it is born? Just because it is a baby, does not mean that it does not experience the terrible pain and agony inflicted on it during an abortion. Whichever method is used during abortion, it kills an innocent human being. What these 1.2 to 1.7 billion individuals were destined to become, no one will ever find out. Abortion is a heart-wrenching trajedy. What will become of our nation if something does not change? We are a free nation, yet so many of our country's children are not even allowed to experience one day here in America. Soldiers gave their lives for our freedom, but so many individuals won't get to experience our nation's freedom. They never had one single chance to live, to experience the things we experience, and to witness life here on earth. Will we turn from our wicked ways? (2 Chronicles 7:14) Oh, America won't we turn back to what we were founded upon-life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?