At Last Sunday's worship, we dedicated my granddaughter, Jordyn Brynne Wurzbacher to the LORD! It was incredibly special and very heart-felt to me and to our whole church.  My Son (Pastor John), wrote a BEAUTIFUL song to her that everyone LOVED!

Check it out here:"These Little Hands" By John R. Wurzbacher

For me personally, it was a total WOW moment. I think back to the days when my son was the one who had the little hands and I was the one praying and wondering what his hands would some day grow to do for the LORD in the future. And for his father and I to now see how his hands are used to daily serve the LORD, I couldn't be more grateful or satisfied!!!

It is all because of God! I think back to some very huge defining moments in my own life. Like the time our marriage (and lives) were falling apart when our son was four years old. We talked about divorce. At the time, it seemed like the only answer. I remember feeling like there was absolutely no way I could stay in the marriage. I thought there was no hope that things would ever get better. But God intervened. God spoke through various people and ways and John and I decided to ask Christ to be the LORD of our marriage. We had to surrender all our 'feelings' and trust our future to the LORD and do things "HIS WAY."

It was extremely hard to do at the time because every emotion I had went against doing it.  It was truly a 'risky' step of faith (or so I thought) at the time. A defining moment was born. We trusted God and surrendered our marriage and our lives to Him and I am still continually amazed at what God did with all that!!!

That's some of what I was thinking about as I sat in the worship service and watched and listened to our son sing that beautiful song to his daughter. I think it was the Holy Spirit who was connecting the dots in my mind. How different all our lives would have turned out if not for Christ.  (Not all that hard for me to imagine as my brother is now in the end stages of alcoholism and once again in the hospital.)
 
Choices, choices, choices! Too many people don't understand that our choices today do indeed define us, our lives and certainly the next few generations at least! Connect the dots! Since growing up in a home of alcoholic parents, I've had a ton of baggage and heartache to deal with and to heal from. It's been a challenging journey of continual surrender to the LORD to allow HIM to build a new heart, a new mind and a new life in me. It's not hard at all for me to understand why we must be born again! Even though the LORD does all the real work, it's still a challenge for us to learn to continually SURRENDER our will and allow God's will to be done in us. 

And days like this past Sunday are sometimes very far and few between.  For me, it was such a wonderful feeling of incredible satisfaction. To see choices you made long ago come to fruition in such amazing ways in the present, there's no words to describe!  It's not to my credit, I know it's all because of JESUS! But it's also choices, choices, choices! The two are connected.

John and I celebrated 32 years of marriage yesterday! He is truly my best friend and together, we have become LIKE ONE! It scares me to think how close we both came to giving up on our marriage AND on following God and being obedient to Him!  I would have never known the joy and peace I now do in our marriage.

When people tell me: "You're so lucky!" it makes me mad because it takes the credit away from God.  I'm not lucky, I am a miracle of God!

Life is something we build one choice at a time! I share all this because I want to make sure that GOD gets the glory for it ALL!  AND I am praying for others to 'connect-the-dots' in their own lives. Realize that the choices you make every day are truly leading your life somewhere! And it's not just this life it affects, it will absolutely affect your after life as well.

Please, CHOOSE CHRIST from this day forward! Don't just say you believe, even the devil believes! The true children of God are FOLLOWING Jesus Christ. We must be obedient to all that He says and is....it requires a daily personal relationship and a whole lot of surrendering of the flesh.

But Jesus is the ONLY way to get to heaven, and not only that, but it's the only way to find peace and satisfaction in this life too!  I am His witness!  I am His servant! I belong to HIM! Thank GOD and to Him be the glory forever and ever! Amen!

As for me and my house, these little hands will all serve the LORD! :-) AMEN!