Celebrate the Love… Typically, February is known for Valentine’s Day, a day when lovers, young and old, exchange glittering cards filled with heartfelt poetry, share a special dinner or send flowers and candy to each other…and, of course, we can’t forget the fun children share as they exchange cards and candy in their elementary school classrooms! However, this month’s theme, “Celebrate the Love,” will focus more on the deepest, richest love relationship possible…the love our Heavenly Father has for us as His beloved sons and daughters, the love we can freely express back to Him and the love we share with one another. Beginning with John 3:16, the Golden Text of the Bible, we see that God so loved the world that He gave…He gave before we deserved it, earned it or even knew He existed. God’s love is a giving and forgiving kind of love, it’s a love that we can grow to know and exemplify the more we know Him and His Word. It is my hope that each of you not only know and experience His love, but that you will truly CELEBRATE it with me this month…Happy February!

Happy 2020, everyone! And we’re off…to a New Year and a new start. How grateful I am that He is NEW every morning, great is HIS faithfulness! (Lam. 3:23) I’m guessing that many of you can say along with me, that 2019 certainly was a year laced with challenges. Yes, it had its ups and downs, and yet we are still here! With every loss, every injury, illness, struggle, battle or challenge, HE has seen us through to this day. If you have a roof over your head, clothes on your back and food on your table, you are blessed more than most of the world. Even if your heart is grieving for the loss of a loved one or breaking over a strained relationship, even if your finances are in the red and your heath is failing, even if [fill in the blank!], God is with you! He will never leave you or forsake you, and you are still here for a reason…for His great purposes, which vary as much as our DNA. Purpose is personal and individual and so is our relationship with our Father, our Abba. And the greatest purpose of all is that you, yes YOU, are here to love and be loved by the God of the Universe. He calls you His beloved and now, along with this New Year, I beleive He wants to do a new thing in your life…in each of our lives. So, with that said, we have a NEW theme this year and it is Celebrate, beginning with January’s theme of “Celebrate the New!” Happy New Year to each of you as you Celebrate His amazing, matchless love and, of course, “the New!” ❤️✝️😊