Cammy Girl

  "We know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them." Sometimes we set ourselves up for disappointment. We speak about something too soon, we reveal too much of our plan and then feel bad and embarrassed when things don't work out as we had planned. Often we speak out of excitement around people we think we can trust and that's okay but there is power in keeping some things to ourselves and even more power in taking our hearts desires to God in prayer and asking Him to make provision for them in accordance with His will.  When God makes us wait for something, we can find ourselves feeling frustrated and growing impatient because He is not delivering on our time. We feel stuck, we feel that God is not working, that He has forgotten about us. This is furthest from the truth. Our disappointment is often God's appointment! He never stops working and will reveal His perfect plan to...

"Honour the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce." Jesus is working all the time- He is protecting us from unseen evil, He has planned our futures and is walking with us everyday. Sometimes we forget this but He never forgets about us. We are constantly on His mind because He loves us that much.  The Word, tells us not to worry and yet so often we are overcome with anxiety for the future, worrying about what today and tomorrow will hold. When we fall into this trap, let's remember that Jesus is working all the time, that He is protecting us and has hope for our futures.  It is easy to get lost in our own thoughts but here God is asking us to honour Him and by so doing - by honouring Him in everything that we do - we are to constantly and consciously carry Him in our hearts and minds, instead of constantly worrying. By offering our best to Him we are showing Him that He is important to us.  How do we honour God with our wealth? Tit...

Girls, I’m not gonna lie, I'm so happy that bigger handbags have made a comeback. The crossbody bags were starting to hurt my shoulders and I never got round to purchasing the perfect moon bag (fanny pack). The smaller handbags are also quite limited for space even for the mere essentials – lip-products, cellphone, wallet and keys. Like with everything, there are pro’s and con’s…a bigger handbag means a whole lot more room to carry stuff but when you’re a mom and a wife, your bag becomes the family bag – the good old “I don’t have space in my bag” excuse no longer works!   It is convenient not having to lug around more than one bag which was the case when mini-bags were on trend, I remember taking a mini-bag to the office but keeping my wallet and keys in my laptop bag because the mini was not practical but rather cute and fashionable. Keeping a bigger bag neat can also be challenging and many smaller essentials, like lipsticks or keys ending up at the bottom of it, making them d...

  "He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ". This Bible verse is special to me, specifically the last part of it but lets start at the beginning.  "He who has begun a good work in you" - God knew us before we entered this world. He had a plan for us from our inception. He has always wanted us to be more like Him and will put challenges and achievements on our path so that we may see His hand and ultimately use it to glorify Him. We were born into purpose and each day we are on this beautiful Earth God is using our life experiences to shape us into the people He has called us to be from the minute He thought the world needed us.  Although God wants us to be like Him, He knows our human nature, that we are fallible and sinful. Despite this, He does not give up on us - how thankful we should be! Even when we fall short of the people God has called us to be, He continues to work on us, moulding us into the people we are s...

  "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you." Sometimes Christianity is hard. God calls us to do difficult things such as forgiving those who have hurt us and to be kind to even those who are unkind to us. It's so much easier to write people off but then we are reminded that God forgives us daily and so if He can do that, who are we to not do the same for others? We need to allow ourselves some grace.  I don't think we should be hard on ourselves when we find these things difficult to do, it doesn't make us bad people or bad Christians but rather it proves that we are human. I think if we pause and think about it we will find that there are circumstances where we have forgiven and been tenderhearted and kind and so we must trust that we are capable of doing that again.  It is harder to forgive some people, for example family who have disappointed us, whereas on the flip side, forgiving someone who has forced t...

 "I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on Earth you will have many trials and sorrows but take heart because I have overcome the world." We worry so much, too much it would seem when reading The Word. I would say, it's hard not to worry when we see the condition of the world. In this passage God acknowledges that we will face many trials and sorrows but then He goes on to encourage us not to worry because He has overcome the world. This passage reminds us to tap into our faith even when it feels difficult to do.  If were honest with ourselves, it is hard to be a Christian. God expects a lot from us , He sent Jesus to set the bar very very high and then calls us to be like Him! So often, we naturally fail at what He tells us to do - it's hard to love thy neighbour as we love ourselves especially if the neighbour isn't very nice, sometimes it's hard to honour thy mother and father because their ways seem archaic and it feels like they ...