Deep thoughts

What does your Bible mean to you?

Is it just an old book that someone gifted to you that just sits on a shelf in a corner somewhere?
My paper bible sits on a shelf but I have another one as an app on my phone that I absolutely love.
I love that I can pick among many versions to read or plans or books or even devotionals that someone else put together. But my question I put out there, requires deeper personal questioning.

What.
Does.
YOUR.
Bible.
Mean
To.
You.

Do you even read it?

Do you know the overall message it has?

My first bible was given to me when I was very young. It was a Christmas gift to me from my mom and my dad and I still cherish it to this day. Its old King James Version so its a bit harder to read but my mom wrote many notes in it and I love to skim through it sometimes.

I need to do that with my own paper Bible.
So when I pass on someday...my kids will want to read my notes and cherish my thoughts like I do my own mom's scribbles.

An old memory of my bible was when I was young and I was very sick to my stomach. Even as a child only like 8 or so, I would get very anxious when I wasn't feeling well and I would shake from head to toe. I remember feeling like this and holding my bible against my heart and praying for God to stop my shaking and within minutes, it stopped. It was a big faith increasing moment for me as a child.

I don't cherish my bible as much as I should I hope for that to change this year. I plan to buy one just so I can make sure to put lots of notes in it to pass along to my children someday.

I hope this made you think a bit more about your own bible and I will pray that you will be prompted to go pick yours up, dust it off and read a bit today.

Till Next Time....

Distractions and Priorities

One of the hardest things for me to do is Let Go...of anything!
I mean, when I'm angry I am the first (usually) to apologize to the person I'm angry toward. I don't like fights or any kind of confrontation. When someone is upset with me, it drives me crazy...to no end. At least until the relationship problem is resolved and things are back to where I want them to be. But last year, something happened in my life that really threw me. I had a friendship that I had to let go of because she really wasn't a friend in the first place. I unfriended her on facebook but I kept " checking in " on her because I was hoping to see that she was sorry for what she did to me. I never saw anything that showed remorse of any kind. So, one thing I did 2016 was block her. I didn't do it so she couldn't see me, I did it so I couldn't see her anymore. I knew that I had to find a way to completely let go and that is what I did.

When I care about someone, I care about them for life. I'm a " lifer". That's who I am and sometimes its a terrible thing to be. But I am learning that sometimes, in order to be a more positive person for myself, my family, my friends and those I choose to be a " lifer" towards, then I have to let go of the things in my life that bring me down.

At our Wednesday evening Bible study, we talked a little about distractions in life that take our focus off of God. I mentioned even good things can be distractions. But only if we let them! Family and friends and fun things are all good things! But not if you put them over your relationship with the God who blessed you with them in the first place!

Take the time to thank God for all of the blessings in your life each day. I find my time to say thank you is right before I close my eyes at night. Its when I feel most connected to Him and I don't have the cares of my day to bog me down.

Find your time.

Make the time if you have to.

And let me end this saying Thank you to the ones in my life that choose to stick around with me.
You all know who you are.

Until next time!

Originality

So this was my very first blog back when I began many years ago. Last year I started a new one but because of closed doors that I chose to slam shut I have decided to go back to my original blog.

I also remembered why I chose to write in a blog.
Back when I was a teenager, which seems like another life time, I wrote the cheesiest poems about anything and everything. I even won my dad father of the year once because of a poem I submitted.
Now, I don't like to write poetry anymore but I do love to put my thoughts onto " paper " and share with others hoping to help someone who might need it.

So, since I titled this post Originality, I mean to say that I'm going back to my very first blog and keep it going.

Hope you all still will follow me and comment and let me know your thoughts on what I write cause it means the world to me.

So, Nikki's Ramblings is reborn.