The Perception

A bird can’t drive a car

But it can fly about the skies…

A caterpillar can’t milk a cow

But it can go into a cocoon and become

A beautiful butterfly.

A lion can’t swim in deep oceans

But it pierces the forest with its mighty roar

A whale can’t walk on dry land

But, upon oceans and seas, it soars…

A tiny baby can’t speak or walk

But lying at his mother’s breast, he listens to his mother talk.

She whispers, I love you be blessed

Love, is so powerful, it calms the seas, it gives us peace,

God’s love will never cease!

Love one another, for God is Love!

Sometimes we have expectations about how certain things should be done. Our perception is one way, but when we take a closer look, we see that it doesn’t have to be that way.

For instance, I thought in order to be a speaker you had to have everything perfect. That a great speaker is someone who knows all their lines and doesn’t read from notes. They’re animated and well put together. They look at the audience and don’t miss a word. They’re passionate and composed.

God sees each of us as we are meant to be. So, he puts us in situations to stretch and grows us, not to our specifications but to His. Not to be without flaws but real.

Everyone is different. Different heritage, linage, different DNA. Not to be a robot, but a person with our very own fingerprints, footprints; fit together for His design.

I can’t be you, and You, can’t be me. We are individuals being transformed into the image of the Living God!

Just like the body…there is one head, one heart and one brain, but all of our parts fit together in perfect unison, working together to keep us alive. All the parts are needed. We can survive without certain parts, but it makes it a little harder to function. With God’s help we can thrive and accomplish everything that we were created for.

You may sing like an angel and someone else, try as they might, sounds like a sick toad. But that doesn’t mean that the sick toad person, doesn’t have other redeeming qualities. Use the gifts God has put within you and I promise, you will fulfill the call on your life, and it will be a beautiful masterpiece. God doesn’t make mistakes…he designs you in His eyes as a perfect masterpiece…

All for God’s Glory! Amen!

~Marla Shaw O’Neill October 28, 2024

Ephesians 2:7-10 The Message Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

 Ephesians 2:10 New Living Translation For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.