What Are You Doing With Your Dash?

What are you doing with your dash?

Tomorrow is not promised but eternity is…

Mourning has its place, but don’t let sorrow fog your vision. Don’t let grief keep you from the mission. Instead, let it lift your eyes and anchor you with an eternal perspective.

👉🏼Every tear reminds us that time is short.

👉🏼Every loss reminds us what truly matters.

👉🏼Every moment is a gift to point others to Jesus.

We all have an expiration date with an exit ramp:

➡️ eternal life

or

➡️ eternal death

…and there is only One Savior who leads us to life.

Your dash is brief.

Redeem the time.

Live today like eternity is real—because it is.

🫶🏼 Save this for days when you need a reminder to lift your gaze… Share with a friend who might need this encouragement today.

🙏🏼 Jesus, we beckon Your return—for the days we live are like the days of Noah. Yet as we wait, let our lives reflect the only reason we still have breath in our lungs: to tell others of the goodness of our God, here on earth as it is in Heaven! Holy Spirit, lead us—we will follow with reckless abandon, empower us to redeem the time and honor You with our dash. In Jesus’ Name, amen.

📖 “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” (Ephesians 5:15–16, NKJV)

#RedeemTheTime

#EternalPerspective

#ChristianEncouragement

#FaithOverFear

#KingdomMindset

#HopeInJesus

When Faith Feels Ridiculous

“Faith can feel ridiculous… until it starts to rain.”

I’ve lived this line more than once. Just this week, our family lost a dear friend—Ms. Gail—after a long, hope-filled battle with cancer. We prayed with fervency and faith for her healing… and yet, for reasons we may never understand this side of Heaven, Jesus welcomed her home on Monday…

Moments like these can shake your soul. They can tempt you to question whether your prayers mattered—whether your faith was misplaced. But today I remembered Noah.

He built an ark in the middle of a dry region, where it had never rained. He trusted the Word God had spoken, letting every swing of the hammer pierce the air, not for applause or understanding—but in agreement with a promise no one else could see. He built by faith… until the rain came.

Sometimes God asks us to do the same:

To pray for something.

To build something.

To believe for something—without ever seeing the outcome we imagined.

But here’s what we can count on:

“Even if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.” – 2 Timothy 2:13

And…

“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.” – Hebrews 10:23

So friend, don’t let the delay make you doubt.

Don’t let what you see or what you don’t see yet cause you to lay down your faith.

The rain will come.

We just might not see the full spectrum of it until we get to the other side of Heaven. And when we do, I believe we’ll see how every prayer mattered, how every moment was seen, every tear was collected —and how faithful ones like Ms. Gail helped us keep believing.🤍

#FaithfulGod #faith #sorrow #grief #unwaveringfaith #EternalPerspective #bible #truth #Hebrews1023 #2Timothy213 #FaithOverFeelings #FromChainsToChange #hope #christian #christianencouragement #christianwomen

20/20 Vision | Keeping an Eternal Perspective

Yesterday, my son posted a tidbit of wisdom about eternal perspective on social media.   It caught my eye because my husband, Markel, and I are praying for 20/20 vision as we enter into this new decade. As I opened, “Anonymous”, a book written by Alicia Britt Chole, I was stunned to see that  the title of today’s chapter is:  “Eternal Perspective”!  

The book is about the 30 hidden years of Jesus’s life before he launched into ministry.  This chapter focuses on the 40 days in the wilderness - the place where Satan tempted Jesus in the high and dry places.  In the desert, Satan tempts Jesus with provision, on the temple top he tempts with power and on the mountain's peek he tempts with praise - and yet through it al, Jesus maintains an eternal perspective!

Chole writes, 

“I personally think Satan’s real hope was that Jesus would somehow - because of the heat or the hunger or the loneliness or the sheer dazzle of the world and its splendor - lose sight of eternity even for a moment and forget who he really was…Because it is when we forget who we are that we are most vulnerable to bowing down {to the distractions before us}.

But Jesus did not lose sight of eternity…

He remembered that he had been with the Father in the beginning and would return to the father at the end of his earthly life…"

He recalled the promise of His inheritance in Psalm 2:7-8…

She then concludes with this:

“What grows in an anonymous season?  An eternal perspective."

Like a presenter blinded on a stage, we can often lose our perspective in the glare of the world's deadly glitter. Hidden, years, however, remove us form the world's hot spotlights and restore our spiritual vision. No longer hypnotized by earthly power or possessions or praise, we can once again distinguish between the temporal and eternal…”

This is such a solid visual of 20/20 vision!  A friend recently reminded me that eternity is not a place we go, but a person we know...Jesus! As the decade launches, may we all keep our eyes fixed firmly on that which is eternal, allowing that lens to drive our thoughts, decisions, words and actions - all of which will draw us nearer to or further from experiencing eternity this side of heaven…

Less Stuff <∞> More Life

#2020 Vision

#LessStuffMoreLife

#EternalPerspective 

Amazing book that I highly recommend written by Alicia Britt Chole! Link to Amazon