Caity Alice's Blog: Caity's Element, page 8

Wallpapered Soul

How a designer/homeowner chooses to cover their walls sets the tone for an entire space.

What words and thoughts are "wallpapering" the structure of your heart, mind, and soul?

Are they true, just, lovely, pure, of good report, virtuous and full of praise?

Bravely Uncomfortable

Don't accept crutches for illusionary hindrances towards what God has called us to do and be.

Do the uncomfortable, bravely.

"Set apart" never meant glass encased and handled with kid gloves.

How To Make An Ocean Rise

The domino effect when we stand up for what's right and someone who believes in the same takes notice and finds within themselves the courage and inspiration to also stand up for what's right...

And before you know it, you have an army for truth.

A difference worth making will never only impact one person.

I Love You A Latte

✱brown sugar cinnamon✱

Warning: Contains Unpopular Opinion

Hello there!

It's me! Here to tell you that

I am not enough.

Hallelujah, I'm not enough.

It's not an excuse, nor is it a weight...it's a relief and a burden lifted, and warrants my service and praise.

I must strive to be more, surely-

More like Jesus

More loving

More set apart

More sold out for the Gospel

But I can never be "enough"; this was our plight from the beginning.

This was why Jesus came to earth and offered Himself as the sinless sacrifice for our sins. Because I wasn't enough, and I needed Him. I DO need Him. Even in striving to be more I will need God's help every moment.

If we had to be enough, we would spend our every waking moment in our attempts and the truth of the Gospel- salvation through grace, not works- would never be shared (and we wouldn't believe it ourselves); it wouldn't even be true for we would have to work to be enough to be saved! and since truth is truth and this claim isn't part of it, this claim is merely a crutch.

To concern myself and exert my energy on being enough when I can never hope to be, is to take my time away from becoming more for Him and sharing His love with others, and to take my focus away from how He was more than enough and still is today.

It should never matter to me that I be enough, but that He is, and that I honour Him for it and tell others how HE was enough for me, not vice versa.

To say I am enough is to discount His work on the cross, for it says that now that He has taken care of the hard part I can handle the living part and meeting His expectations on my own.

To believe that I am enough is to believe a lie.

We ought to pray that our lives are a testimony of God's goodness and of His ability to be more than enough for me when I come short- which I cannot help but do, for I have sinned, and any one sin is sufficient to keep me from reaching the mark, but opens the door for me to acknowledge my lack and accept Jesus' free gift of salvation and His grace which enables me to ever strive to be more, that He might be glorified in my life.

We will start to see a change in our outlook and the impact of our revolution when we start saying "enough about me; rather, He is enough."

"It Is Time to Dare"

Dare.

Endure.

Challenge the culture we live in that prescribes ease and comfort for every malady...be it real or convinced.

Stop accepting crutches.

Run with patience the race...God has already overcome every obstacle, whether by removing it...or placing a purpose within it.

Endure.

Dare.

Reminder: He is Able

Just your Wednesday reminder that God is still on His throne! 

He is still working.He is still in control.He is still able to do above and beyond what we ask or even think.Don't let the fears take root; God has already overcome them, so to re-plant them would be disrespectful.Please Him in this time.Please Him by spending time with Him, relying on Him, and trusting His promises.
(Another great phone wallpaper that I found on Pinterest! ⇾)

Ravens and Reality

There's a timeless charm in sending hand written notes and letters across all the miles, that makes a friend feel closer and more precious than any number of texts.

~❤~

I think a lot can be learned from Wonderland about making the most out of the mundane; of taking time to make connections; and Alice's ability to speak up with truth and confront her nonsensical surroundings with a fresh dose of reality.

True Love Doesn't Justify

I think we too often use "loving" someone as an excuse to let them be and stay stuck in the ruts we often dig for ourselves, without ever speaking up and challenging growth in their life (as we should be willing for them to do for us as well), when that's not truly showing love at all...if you love someone, you will want what is best for them- even if that means figuratively (or literally, if need be!) stepping on their toes, splashing them with cold water, and all that jazz.Love is willing to kindly, patiently, honestly say "Yo. Wake up; get moving. But don't worry, I'm coming with you."

Revolutionary Life of Truth