Dear Sister,
I am sitting here at my window since before daybreak – waiting. Waiting for the big snow storm that is due in later this morning and waiting to hear from God concerning some things I have petitioned Him for. But while waiting I heard something in my spirit that I was not looking for and had nothing to do with my specific petition.
I feel compelled to share this with you although I posted on this blog just last night. And normally I don’t’ post more than once a week. Anyway, this is what I heard.
The spirit was saying to me that too many of us have lived and continue to live in negativity—negative self-image, negative environments, around negative people, negative lifestyles based on choices, and we nurture negative thoughts. Negativity has been so much a part of our lives for so long a time until we do not even realize it for what it is anymore. It just appears to be the norm and we go with the flow of it. That’s what I heard. But as I sat I, in the next moment I heard, “Now is the time, today is the day, and this is the hour to choose people, places, things, and even thoughts that propel you forward, encourage, and lift you.” Dethrone negativity. It is a cancer that is killing you softly and cheating you out of your best life.
Life is a precious moment. In the book of Job life is called “a breath.” Thinks about it—a moment – a breath—that’s just too short to waste. Life is a gift from God and the shortness of it makes it oh so precious. Someone once said to me if we could see a timeline that measured from eternity past to eternity future, and if we lived for 100 years, (and most of us won’t) that 100 years would be less than a split second in time. That 100 years would not even register on the timeline—its span is too short. Imagine 100 years amounting to no more than a split second of time. And, like I said, most of us won’t live to be 100 years old. So, that shortens that split second even more for us. Sisters, less than a split second is not a lot of time. All I can say is don’t waste that tiny fraction of that split second you have on this earth living in negativity. Choose to make your tiny fraction of the second you’ve been given time well-spent.
keeping you in my prayers,
angela