Moments With Marti

I love sharing what God has done in my life and the lessons that I have learned from each experience whether good or bad. There are many lessons that I have and am still learning. It's only been by His Grace that I can sit here today and without a doubt know that I am forever secure in His Love.
This blog is simply an avenue for me to share my heart felt thoughts from scripture as well as from my every day moments…My prayer is that there will be a small nugget of hope and encouragement that you can apply to your life as well.
Living By Grace,
Marti

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Thursday, December 1, 2016, 03:05 PM
As we celebrate another holiday, many of us will have an empty place at our  tables…..empty of a loved one, but not empty of our shared memories.  For me, it  is my mom and dad.  They were both such a big part of my life; yet in their  senior years, cancer took residence in each of their bodies…. Daddy left us first, and then just two short years later, mom was gone. 
 
For a while I felt like the biggest part of my life was over; what would I do  now?  Who would/could I trust and love the way I did these two wonderful  people?  For a  while I felt like I had been abandoned…..yet for all those years  under their wings, I  was not the same as I had been….
 
Isn’t that just how it was with Jesus?  For three years He was the very center  of at  least twelve men’s lives.  Day in and day out….they traveled together, they  ate  together, they talked, they learned, they prayed.
 
And then in one tragic day, it was all over.  He was gone….life as they had known it was  over.  What were they to do now? Many of them returned to their former  lives…..but  they were different now.
 
I wonder, did they just hang around their fishing nets?  Did they somehow feel like the  meaning for their lives was now empty and with no direction?  Did they  just “hang out”   with no real purpose?
 
AND THEN……and then, is was the first day of the week!!!
The unbelievable  news  that the tomb was EMPTY!!!!!!!!   JESUS HAD RISEN!! HALLELUJAH!!!
 
Fast forward to “2002”……where are we now in our relationship with Jesus?   Where  am I?  Where are you? 
Are we taking full advantage of what Christ had  done for us?  
 
And lastly, can our friends and our families see that because of  Calvary, we are “not  the same anymore”?
 
 
 
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