The smiling music and feel good novels....

hi!

I feel relaxed now. I love jazz music because it's so relaxing. You just swing back and forth, while reading or typing in my case, LOL!

Anyway, I am reading this awesome historical Christian novel called "Veil of Pearls" by MaryLu Tyndall, it's about a young girl who is mostly white but because she's a quarter black, she is a slave in 1811 (you'd hardly tell). She runs away from Barbados to Charleston, where she tries to hide her identity but Morgan Rutledge, a son of a wealthy plantation owner starts falling for her. Haha, I know what you're thinking; oh no, she's falling for him too, but the awesome thing about this novel is about what we are slaved to and how to escape.  Even though Adalia is a slave, she finds peace in the LORD. Morgan, a slave to a boring life with no purpose .

We are a slave to something. Now in America, there is no slavery but people are bounded by other stuff;

I will admit I am a slave to myself. I listen to all of the defeatist voices in my head, telling I am not pretty or smart. Voices telling me I will never go to India or Paris or even to Zion Canyon! Voices telling me I am not worth it.

I might not be worth it in man's eyes, but I know God knows I am! It might sound cheesy but here in Romans 6: 16-18, it says:

"Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey —whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness."

I need to let go of those voices, and need to let the LORD's voice be heard!!! I am going to pray I trust the LORD more often because, seriously, has he ever lead me astray?! If it's anybody, it's ME!

Okay, goodnight!

--Faith.

"When you're smilin' keep on smilin' The whole world smiles with you...."-Louis Armstrong