This is only my third post and what brought me back you ask?  The pondering.... how do we do what we do.... why do we hurt others, why do we lash out, why do we ....  well its because......  We all have of a because.

At one time my because was finished with pride because of something "I" felt "I"deserve, or finished with anger because of  something that happened to "me",  or finished with me and my greatness because I.

When I became, honest, vulnerable, broken, truly authentic and empty when I was at rock bottom. That's when I was ready to change what came after the because.  I didn't have the tools to edit the sentence to include because of love, or compassion.  Some one else had to change my because. And he did once I let him.  Once I was willing,  it was there all along I just had to see it... because HE  first loved us....

That was the sentence that slowly changed mine and now.....  every because ends with him.... because of Jesus, because of his love, because of his word, because I want to obey, because I want to honor him. Because he first loved us ..... 

I see the because in the people I know and I am so blessed by it...

We adopted 6 children because he asked us to take of the orphans....

We made minstry our life because he asks us to make disciples of all nations....

I going to take a pay cut to keep this ministry in budget because I want the children to know about him .....

I will mentor you and your wife to help you through this rough patch because he wants families to stay together......

I will sell my home and all I have to bring your word to people in another country because he wants all people to know about his love......

I am prayerful and thankful that I know my because ......

I am prayerful that everyone I encounter will know mine too......

I am prayerful that maybe my because will become yours......

Because he first loves us........