Love Pays the Rent

Despite the Sonny and Cher 60’s song… 

Love does pay the rent!



When we put our total trust in God to provide for our basic needs we are expecting His love to pay our rent. 


Children don’t worry about the rent. In fact, rent isn’t on their radar. They have blind faith that their needs will be taken care of, because they trust their parent’s love for them.

As adults it’s difficult for us to put ourselves back in that innocent trusting mindset because we have been hurt so much by life experiences.

If we can listen to Jesus’ teaching and become as a little child life can be so much better.  

It’s not easy but it is possible. We must remember, God never asks us to do something He hasn’t already equipped us to do.

This is the truth: unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. In that kingdom, the most humble who are most like this child are the greatest.  ~ Matthew 18:3-4 (Voice)

How can I be more childlike?

  • Be more play-full and wonder-full.
  • Sit in the grass and look at the flowers.
  • Discover something new today.

Be alive, awake, aware, in awe of God’s creations around you!


Light Up Your Darkness

About a year ago the fluorescent lights in our master closet began going out.  Eventually, there was only one of the four bulbs really working and it was very dim.



Months went by and my husband and I never seemed to notice we were functioning in the dark every day in our closet.

We finally took the time to replace the light bulbs. When we turned them on the light was almost blinding it was so bright! We had no idea how dark our closet had become.

For weeks after replacing the light bulbs, when going into our closet, we wouldn’t turn on the lights. We had become so accustomed to the closet being dark that we didn’t use the lights even when we had them.

In our lives we often allow the darkness to creep in. Then before we know it we are living in it all the time.  And the worst part is we don’t recognize that we are living in the darkness.


We must intentionally flip the switch to keep The Light flowing in our lives!

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