I AM No Shrinking Violet

How Does The Fire Flower In Your Heart? By Lettie Violetta  My mini Bible Study comes from the reading in:         2 Corinthians 4:7-11 NLT * We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves. * We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed.  We are perplexed, but not driven by despair. * We are hunted down, but we are not destroyed. * Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus will be also seen in our bodies. * Yes, we live under constant danger of death because we serve Jesus, so that the life of Jesus will be evident in our dying bodies. In verse 7 it says that we have this light shining in our hearts.  You mean like fireworks? Because that might hurt a bit.  In fact it might just break our jars of clay. What is this great treasure...

There was a vision among us I woke up this morning on this July 2, 2020 with a vision . I was called by 2 people. One was a man who said he knew me, but I did not know him. He was interested in me from the success of my salon business and wanted to open his own salon. I saw that he was of sin, but I saw it only on the surface. I saw in him instead not the outward things, but the humbleness and shyness of his heart. Then I was taken to another place of sin where a Nigerian woman sat and asked me to write something for her. So I wrote her a prayer. When she read this prayer she started weeping and said, "Jesus loves ME??!?" I lovingly touched her shoulder and said, "Oh yes honey. He loves you." In that moment I was looking at this as if I were in a movie, looking from the outside in. I saw a scene with me in it sitting on a beautiful porch reading the newspaper with the wind blowing through my hair- and I was younger and most beautiful. It was like a...

Over this past Easter week millions of people are mourning the loss of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, a Paris historical church over 850 years old.  Not all was burned and destroyed.  The cross still stands! The Virgin Mary statue holding Jesus was unharmed by the fire.  Many artifacts remained untouched by the flames of that fire.   This miraculous and tragic event has had me thinking of Biblical events like Easter. This is the celebratory Easter week that Christians remember Christ Jesus dying on the cross, rising again and saving us all from sin for those that believe in Him.  I look at the pictures of the fire of the great Notre-Dame Cathedral and see the before, during and after shots of something truly miraculous. There were many people that built this amazing church. Over 800 years ago! Replacing the roof beams alone will be such a feat because there are no trees that big to replace the beams in all of Paris! Imagine wha...

Someone once told me that when I was a cross country runner 🏃that I could finish a race in the top four, if I believed in myself. I had always finished last. I didn’t believe that I could. Nobody had ever pushed me, told me that I could or believed in me before. I found it interesting that out of nowhere this  team mate believed in me. So I set out to prove that he was right. I finished third that day, unsuspecting of my prior beliefs! So I sure did finish in the top four! Wow! I had not known before that I could do it! And I did! Did you know that the human potential of the mind is limitless? When allowed to process and think “in tune” and geared positively by our thoughts, we can achieve anything our heart’s💜desire.   It’s like the story of Buzzy The Bumblebee 🐝by Denise Brennan-Nelson. The bumblebee doesn’t have the structure to be able to fly, but because it thinks it can , so it does. In my own experience, life lessons have taught me what is possible ....

The Secret Room. The room no one person knew about. God showed me this place. It was my place to retreat, retract, and have a sense of peace around me in a dark world. But God. But God showed me His light in the darkness. He showed me a way, The way. It was in that warm dark room that I could feel safe. I had it all to myself. It was warm and dry and dark. SOOO dark. It was in the ceiling of the basement behind the wood stove. It was behind the kitchen. So I could still hear what was going on upstairs. So I knew when I could emerge from the safety of that place. God helped me find a place that protected me from having to go outside in frigid temperatures. He helped me know that His voice was with me even as a young woman. He helped me in the storm of the beginnings of my life. You see BEGINNINGS is key here. This story is just a story. But GOD. He made a way for me. He made a way when it was bleak for me. He showed me today that this beginning was a story He is us...

It's not just in the #forgiveness of the Earthly family that hurt me, but in the gratitude for it. Learning that being grateful in it launches me higher! Allows  me to help others heal. Being that conduit for healing energy, heals us both in the process.  I am No Shrinking Violet. I will not stand in the sidelines with a broken heart. I am not alone. God is at the throne! He is my deliverer! I am faithful to my God. He is Holy! He is with me. I am in His safe arms. I have this voice to tell the story that, it is not just forgiving them, but I have gratitude in those lessons.  I use God's Great healing energy to help heal others, giving my 1% back. This "story" helps me to heal others with this pain. If I had not had that past history I could not share! I am grateful for the healing in Jesus' arms!  Thank you Jesus for helping me to Let It Go.  Like the firewalk experience, when walking on a bed of 1700 degree coals, it can be like going to the fridge to...