JoAnna Lynn Oblander's Blog, page 70
December 8, 2014
1000 Important Things that Death Taught Me About Life
My Near Death experience sometimes feels like a life within a life. Which is hard to explain but I’m going to attempt it anyway. I don’t know how long I was in heaven – probably 3 or 4 hours but every time I reflect on my experience, it is like getting personalized instruction on the importance of life. If someone were to ask me about my life, I would have to answer as though I have had two of them: my life before death and my life after death. My time in heaven was so glorious and so profound that today, some 12 years later, I am still processing and learning from my experience. A residual effect of all that processing is an overwhelming desire, at times, to want to pick the world up, shake it a little and say with the most loving, urgent, intense voice I can muster, “Don’t you know what we have here? We are not here by accident. God is real and He is perfect and if you would just listen you would know how much He is trying to help you! Quit fooling around and taking your life for granted! Pick yourself up (With God’s help of course), figure out your personal mission and get busy with living the life that was personally designed for you before you even took your very first mortal breath!” Now, for very obvious reasons, I am finding it difficult to lift more than about 80 lbs. let alone the entire world but the desire remains. So, I have had an idea that just might suffice for now. I am going to share over the next ummm 1000 posts the lessons I learned in heaven about life. I hope you will think about them and share them and let me know what you think.
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September 25, 2014
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June 3, 2014
Hearts…
Letting God speak to our hearts can be both painful and difficult. It is one thing to logically know that God knows us – it is another to feel His knowledge of us in our hearts . We may know that God knows best yet struggle to turns ourselves over to Him. Letting God into ours hearts can feel like we are exposing our most raw, bare self. That can be paralyzingly difficult. The irony is that He already knows every fiber of our being and loves us in spite of whatever that reality is. As long as the world seems content with who we are, it can be easy to choose to be complacent. It is up to us. The choice is always ours. We can let God in and let Him speak to us or we can allow our egos to motivate us and miss out on incredible experiences, joy, and satisfaction. Our egos always push God aside – it is only our hearts that let Him in.
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May 11, 2014
Happy Mother’s Day!!!
Happy Mother’s Day and a huge heartfelt thanks to all mother’s of every kind who sincerely seek to improve the world and make it a better place by loving and nurturing the children of our world!
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