Life, what a captivating word.
Here are my thoughts on it.
I hope you enjoy them.
Okay, now here I turn.
L stands for loving others,
I stands for independence,
F stands for fountain of wisdom and learning,
E stands for exalting Jesus!
These are my thoughts on Life.
If you agree with me,
Then let me know.
If not then tell me why?
By Jennifer Chejfec
Forgive and accept?
Forgive and forget?
Forgive and reject?
Questions in my mind.
What is the better of them all?
Should I be weak and let myself fall?
Or should I continue to stand tall?
Questions in my mind.
Should I worry?
Let it become blurry?
Should I forget in a hurry?
Questions in my mind.
To take the hard road?
To make a full length show?
The pictures of my life through it flow?
Questions in my mind.
If only people knew the truth,
Then my life would be even more good,
My life would be even more new.
Only you, God, can answer it all in your time.
By Jennifer Chejfec
I look up at the stars and wonder, how could it be
That God created the universe just for you and me?
Significance is our middle names.
None of us, in God’s eyes, are lame.
We all play an important role in the universe.
God hand picks us like a woman shopping for a purse.
He loves us because we are like a lit flame,
It never goes out for it is always the same.
His spirit is in us.
It helps us run.
Because if this we are never alone.
God is always there, just like in the book of Job.
He never gives up on us, never!
Yes and Amen!
Feeling some relief from the sacks of sand that weighed me down.
Comfort from the love of God, to whom I bow.
Everyday it gets lighter, easier, and not so emotionally draining.
The power of God in my mind is to carry me through with my praying!
Through Him I find courage to face the day.
My life feels less like an obstacle and more like open space.
I feel welcome around my Abba.
Day in and day out is His uncoditional love as a pappa.
Thank you God that your in my life.
You have always been there, but I have not always greeted you because of things like pride.
I have accepted you, though, and I notice your love for me always.
Lingering in my heart, being there to remind me of your ways.
You never give up on anyone!
Thank you and oh God, I love you right back. Amen!
By Jennifer Chejfec
When I wake up in the morning, I sit up,
I look at my kitties and I feel content.
The shadows of my past forever stop,
My love for God is not for rent.
At my weakest, though, I feel like a mop.
I soak up everything for it is never lost.
“What can I do?” I ask God.
“How can I help the rot?”
“Just look to me always,” He says.
“Love on them as I love onto you.”
Happiness is a gift.
It is a renewal of the spirit.
Without it we are like sheep astray,
Without a sheppard to guide His flock.
Love God and He will love you back,
Love the world and your reward will be plentiful indeed!
Hallelujah and amen!
The Unchanging and Everlasting God
I know that being normal on this Earth in general means that everyone likes you. It is being a certain way that way everyone approves of you and your ways. It is when everyone is judging you and your way of life. It is when that kind of love comes from being the best, perfect and being accepted rather than being yourself. It is not about imperfections but rather being the best at everything and being a perfectionist.
When it comes to being loved, and being yourself, only God compares to that extreme. He is the sense of love. He is the true meaning of it. You can do whatever you like. You can walk around naked in your home and He won’t say you look ugly. You can fart and He won’t say you are disgusting. You can go one day without grooming yourself and He won’t say you that you stink. God is the essence of love. He is the perfection of it and we don’t have to do anything to measure up to his perfection in order to get Him to love us because He loves us for who we are. He accepts us and doesn’t judge.
Being loved by God in spite of your imperfections is like the way I love my cats despite their imperfections and cat like nature, but a million times more than that. His love is so great that we cannot fathom it. We don’t know what it is like to love someone that much but we do know what it is like to be loved by Him. We have a glimpse of that kind of love here on Earth. We feel that kind of love when we pray to God, read His word, talk to Him, ask him questions and so on. We only have a glimpse of that though and we won’t able to feel His love completely until the day that we die and go up to heaven.
In the bible it states in 1 Corinthians 13:7, “Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.” No matter what is thrown our way God loves us and treasures our imperfections even in the midst of pain and suffering that we experience both internally and externally. We tend to go through life by living as though we don’t deserve the best. We tend to think that we are less than in everyone’s eyes, even through the darkest of times in our lives, but that is not how God works. He works in such a powerful and loving way that we have no choice but to take it in and feel that kind of love in this world that He gives us everyday. We might reject that love or we might accept it and welcome it with open arms. None the less we take it in and analyze it somehow and learn how to incorporate that love that He gives us in our daily lives.
In Song of Songs 8:6 in the Bible it says, “Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm, for love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave.” Now granted that this section of the bible is talking about the love between a man and a woman in marriage but it is also the kind of love that God wants us to feel for Him here on this Earth and eventually in Heaven. God wants us to flourish in so much love and joy that we cannot comprehend it. It is not of this world, but we get a glimpse of that kind of love when we read the bible or talk to the Lord.
Now that I have preached, let me share with you a poem that I wrote:
How Does God’s Love Work?
When I am in doubt I look up to Him.
I feel His love.
It is like jelly in my skin
For I fear it more than I must
But that is when His glory dwells the me the most.
It is like water to my veins.
I am immobile without it.
It is in my life that it reigns.
It is like a love that never omits.
His love is strong because of His might and power.
If I ever wanted to talk to a father I can talk to my Abba.
He is my everlasting joy and strength.
He is my coffee java.
Loving Him is easy because it is as if I feel no restrain.
Wherever I go, there He is!
I love you Lord. Hallelujah for your precious love and amen!
So God has been working in me and revealing His presence in me even when I am in a dark place of anxiety. It is not an easy thing for me to talk about because I struggle with this everyday, but I would not be human if I didn’t have my faults, and I guess God is trying to teach me that I don’t have to be perfect all of the time. I can mess up, or let my anxiety get the best of me and so on. I shouldn’t let the world dictate my every decision in life. I need to brake the chains, so to speak, of perfection and try to be more human, because we all have our faults, and struggles. We cannot live life and assume that we are going to always have it be good. Yes God loves us but we also cannot grow unless we live through experiences and learn from them. If you think about it, God died on the cross for us. He gave up His life for us! He became yours and my best friend and He died for us. How amazing is that! And yes, He overcame death as well, and is now living in heaven. Hallelujah!
And yes He died for our sins so that we could live better, but also in the midst of chaos in our lives and through the shedding of His blood, He told us not to worry about the day when He, Jesus, will come back to this Earth. In Matthew 6:34 it states, “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.” Even in the midst of my anxiety I feel some comfort in my life at times when I read the bible, and especially when I read about how to lessen anxiety in our lives. The bible has so much wisdom that can battle so much. Jesus died for us so that we could be forgiven of our sins and await the day that He will come back to this Earth.
Growing up I was raised as a reform Jew. I went to the high holidays known as Rosh Hashanah, Kol Nidre, and Yom Kippur. I also celebrated Hanukah and the Passover. I believed in God but I didn’t find a closeness to Him in a synagogue or in the home that I grew up in. I was like a stray sheep that needed her Sheppard to wheel her in. I was lost, confused, angry, anxious, and so on. I was lost to God even though I believed in Him. It wasn’t until I began to go to church instead of a synagogue that I became close to God through the power of Jesus. I still struggle with anxiety, don’t get me wrong, but I feel peace in His presence more so now than I did when I was growing up.
Now none of us are perfect. We are all going to go through things in our lives, struggles so to speak, but when we face those struggles will face them head on with the power of Jesus on our side. Tomorrow I might get anxious again due to whatever life throws at me, but I know that this is okay for me to feel this way, because I am not perfect and I don’t need to be. I am made in the image of God and I am loved by God despite my imperfections. I may never be fully healed by God of this anxiety, but I do know that when I die or when Jesus comes back to Earth that God will fix that part of me that gets anxious and feels self doubt and give me so much joy that I will not be able to contain myself. God loves me and He loves those who walk in His path as well as those who are lost and are seeking Him in some way but haven’t found Him yet.
I hope this message helps those of you who struggle with anxiety or any other kinds of mental illnesses in your lives. If you have any comments, or questions about what I wrote or would like to add to this blog, just go for it. I am new to this blogging thing so bare with me. Thanks, God bless you all and have a great rest of the week.
