God has deposited a gift inside of you. Acclaimed angel artist Anne Neilson is on the show today, sharing her personal story of passion and purpose and how faith radiates from every canvas of her life. Through her book, The Brushstrokes of Life, she will help you see there are no coincidences with God.
Each of us was placed on this earth for a certain number of days. Time is precious, and you don’t want to waste it. You desire a life that has meaning and purpose, but you find yourself caught in a current of non-stop rushing. When this becomes your existence, day after day, you find you’ve lived a series of months, even years, unintentionally. In the middle of all of this is the suffocating presence of anxiety. You want a life that matters, but how do you do that in the middle of…life?
“Is your cup half empty or half full?” How would you answer that question today? Better yet, “What is in your cup?” Amanda Shaefer, from A Cup of Gratitude, is on the show today, sharing how she takes the time to stop and see the good around her. She is reminding us to fill our cups with the living water Jesus provides and overflow as we pour out to the empty cups around us.
If you have been hurt, neglected, rejected, or abandoned by your father, it may feel like every aspect of your life is affected by that broken trust–even your relationship with God. But there is hope. Your father wounds do not have the last word in your life; God does.
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (John 15:12-13). While Jesus doesn’t intend for us to die for our friends in a literal sense, He does intend for us to lay aside our own selfish desires and put the needs of others first. This may mean sacrificing your sleep, resources, tastebuds, comfort, wish list, hobbies, timeline, likes, dislikes, recognition, rewards, or other things you might find hard to give up. The key is learning to value others’ interests more than our own. Such love reminds me of our Savior, who not only taught the concept but demonstrated it.