Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but the Lord’s purpose will prevail.  

Day # 2 Date: Friday September 11, 2026

Mrs. Smith *Social Pathologist MS (Weekly Blogger @AmenWeekly.com)

*Blogger of 75 -Day Hard as a Spiritual Journey! *49-Year old *Mom of 4 *CEO & Social-Behavioral Skills Trainer @ Sweet Home California (Proverbs 22:6) *Retired Home School Mom *CFO & 1st Lady @ AeroComInc.com 

Day #2 75 Day Hard & Let’s Roll Testimony  

One of my New Year’s Resolutions was to complete a 75-Day Hard this year! At the time, New Year’s Day 2026, I had just had success with a 45-Day Hard-FOR ME (what the creator of the 75-Day Hard would call a 45-Day Soft) during the previous Fall of 2025.  I had lost 16.6 lbs between September 2, 2025- November 18, 2025 from modifying the 75-day Hard challenge rules to achieve my own personal goals! 

When we got back from our trip to Spain (which included a Mediterranean cruise) in mid-August, I was feeling strong and ready to start the 75-day Hard Challenge! My weight stayed about the same on the cruise from incorporating the daily habits I had formed using the 45-day Hard Challenge in the fall (& a 35 Day Hard for dry January & a 30 Day Soft for Lent). This was success for me because everyone who cruises knows most people gain 5 lbs, easy, on a cruise!  

I had fun and was enjoying drinking wine and not counting points but I was really good about eating lean proteins like eggs, turkey, chicken, salmon as well as limiting sugar, carbs and dairy products!  I, of course, ate lots of fruits and vegetables, like I always do, and continued my two 45-minute workouts per day. I even went and lifted weights with my kids in a few hotel gyms (pic above) and also used the gym equipment on our cruise ship! On At-Sea days I would wake up early and walk/run on the track to get my outdoor workout in instead of eating extra calories at breakfast!

As I looked at my calendar I was excited to see if I started the challenge mid-August, I would finish early and hit my goal of completing my 75-Day Hard in the beginning of November which was earlier than expected!  One of the reasons I wanted to start earlier (other than finishing earlier) is because it is easier for me to drink a gallon of water per day, during the hot fall season (we have Indian summers or should I call them Indigenous people summers?) in Huntington Beach as opposed to the cooler weather that usually comes in late November. The only problem looming in my mind was we had made plans with our next door neighbors (at our VRBO lake house) to have good wine and dinner with them on September 9, 2026, so I would technically have to start over to Day #1 of the challenge if I chose to indulge.

Problem: My oldest daughter, Emily and I (the daughter who had originally told me about the 75-Day Hard) were planning on starting the challenge together but she ended up getting a cold from Sarah (our youngest child). Sarah had caught a cold at the tail end of our cruise and had generously passed it around to her other siblings including Emily. Emily, therefore, made the point that she didn’t want to start the challenge because she said, “It is very hard to do 2 workouts per day while sick.” I agreed.  Sometimes working out while I’m sick makes it worse although sometimes it does make it better (the sweat it out method) but it all depends on the timing of the cold. Regardless, two workouts (as opposed to one) while sick, from my experience, is not healthy!  Two workouts zaps all my body’s energy when my body needs that energy to heal. 

So Emily was out for at least a week!  Since I was looking forward to good wine and dinner with our neighbors on September 9th, I decided to wait and see if I would begin with her when she felt better or just start after Labor Day (which was the original plan anyways).  Then boom!  I got the cold too!  God made it easy for me to decide to enjoy our neighbors good wine and company! I went back to my original plan which was to start the 75-Day Hard between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. From my other experiences goal setting, God usually picks relationship time over man made goals/challenges! Go figure! Ironically, (or what the author Squire Russell has termed a God-wink) unless it is someone I should not be hanging out with anyways!

Solution: Rule #1 with goal setting is God is always in control!  Proverbs 19:21 says, “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but the Lord’s purpose will prevail.”  

I need to be open to God’s plan and God’s ultimate control!  I can set goals all day, everyday, and try to accomplish but if the goals are not in God’s plan/purpose for me or my timing is off (I need to wait) I will spin my wheels and not be able to achieve them no matter what I do! I love the serenity prayer which says, “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change (being sick), courage to change the things I can (goals) and the wisdom to know the difference. 

Having a goal and a plan but having the attitude of “Let’s Roll” like Todd Beamer had on September 11th.  It is September 11th today. 25-years since that evil (yet good people) day that we will never forget! But it does bring up a good example of having a plan, praying and submitting to God’s plan & purpose!

Todd Beamer, one of the heroes of that day, quickly made a plan (with 4-6 other heroes on board Flight 93), prayed about it (the Lord’s Prayer/Our Father & Psalm 23) and then did what he could do! He famously said, “Let’s Roll” before executing the plan! If he or that entire group of people had not gotten together and come up with a plan/goal in that crisis situation, the airplane could have hit our Capital/White House and killed many more people!

From our earthly perspective, it didn’t work out well for Todd Beamer, but many of his family admitted that God purposed him as someone who would do that sort of thing since birth! Psalm 139:13-14 says, “Truly you have formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother’s womb.  I give you thanks that I am fearfully, and wonderfully made; wonderful are your works.” Todd’s plan/goal/intention was that he was going to spend more time with his family after vacationing in Europe so instead of taking a Monday night flight he would leave for San Francisco the next Tuesday morning. God’s plan for him was to save American buildings and more importantly American people!  25 years later many people have died (we are all going to die physically) but not many get the opportunity to be a hero and save others lives!  Indeed it was an evil day but as MLK said, “Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars!”

In my case, Jesus knew I was gonna get a cold and that I would reschedule my challenge to begin on September 10th which was the one year anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. This was a God-wink for me!  Charlie Kirk and I are alike in that we both enjoy dreaming, goal setting and using the Holy Spirit’s power to help us! God still knows if he is going to allow me to achieve or not achieve my 75-Hard Challenge but I am surrendered to his plan while hoping and praying🙏 I stay healthy cause 2 workouts while sick is almost impossible! Let’s Roll to Day #3!

+Blessings Song By: Laura Story

-Mrs. Smith *Social Pathologist MS (Weekly *Blogger)

Day # 2 of my 75 Day Hard! 9/11/2026

*75 Day Hard as a Spiritual Journey Challenge Goal: To buffet my body (1 Corinthians 9:27) and get even stronger (mentally, spiritually <3, & physically) through a modified 75-Day Hard which will have me living even more of my very best life by the time I turn 50 this February 2027! Philippians 4:13 “I kick & I stretch and I kick;)” 

Ephesians 3:20 Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us!

Mrs. Smith *Social Pathologist MS (Weekly Blogger @AmenWeekly.com)

*Blogger of 75 -Day Hard as a Spiritual Journey! *49-Year old *Mom of 4 *CEO & Social-Behavioral Skills Trainer @ Sweet Home California (Proverbs 22:6) *Retired Home School Mom *CFO & 1st Lady @ AeroComInc.com 

Day #1:75 Day Hard & Charlie Kirk Testimony

Last year, (Summer 2025), my oldest daughter (who was going to be a college senior at the time), came home and was doing a 75-Day Hard, during her summer vacation!  I had never heard of a 75-Day Hard but it sounded like a diet/exercise program I might be interested in. I worked out regularly but was not at my goal weight so I asked her what it was.  She said she got the program from some influencer she saw on instagram and the rules were: 

75 Day Hard Challenge Rules

1. No Alcohol
2. Any Diet Plan
3. Drink 1 Gallon of Water per day
4. One 45-minute Indoor Workout per day
5. One 45-minute Outdoor Workout per day
6. Read 10 pages of non-fiction per day
7. Take a progress Picture every day!

She said the rules were very strict and the creator of the program says,  “If you fail or skip even a single task on any given day, you must restart completely from Day 1.”

Problem: When I looked at the list, I immediately knew which things would be “Hard” and which things would be easier. Giving up wine (one of my weaknesses) for 75-days would be hard as well as beginning to count calories/points again. After having to lose, pregnancy, weight four times, I just wanted to work out, eat lots of fruits/vegetables and drink wine, ice cream and chips in moderation. Plus back then (2012ish), when I lost the last of my pregnancy weight I swore I would never count calories again! However, I knew drinking wine and not counting calories was holding me back from reaching my personal goal weight.

Solution: With my education and background in Behavior Modification Training as a Social Pathologist, I knew/know the science behind how to create goals that have lasting effects on behavior change. Scientifically (statistically), goals have to be measurable, observable and obtainable!  The length of 75-days and the strict rules of starting over at day 1 if I missed even one of the challenge rules was a deal breaker for me. The rigid rules made me not even want to participate in the challenge!  Yet, I knew if I modified the original challenge (so it wasn’t so strict on things that didn’t matter to reach my personal goals) I could have success.  

Example: Back in Fall 2025, I modified the challenge by shortening the challenge to 45-Days.  I was very strict on eliminating wine/alcohol, staying within my allotted points on weight watchers and completing the two 45- minute workouts per day.  I still gave effort to the other rules (like drinking 1 gallon water per day) but I would not start over if I drank ½ gallon of water. Drinking ½ gallon of water is still a 45-Day HARD for me after birthing 4 children (3 natural and 1 c-section), being close to 50 and having a small bladder to start with! 

I had success with my 45-day Hard FOR ME challenge!  From September 2-November 18th, 2025 I lost 16.6 lbs!  I did not reach my goal weight but I had enough success that I was excited and motivated to begin the challenge again after the Holidays! For New Year’s I made the Resolution to complete a 75-Day Hard this year!

Testimony: Fast forward and today is Day #1 of my 75-Day Hard and I am starting to begin achieving my goal on the exact day Charlie Kirk was assassinated last year:(. Sadly, and to be honest, my husband and I had never even heard of Charlie Kirk until his assassination but from watching his videos and funeral it was apparent that Charlie Kirk dreamed, set goals and had lots of success (with the Holy Spirit’s help of course)!

Charlie also encouraged everyone around him to have hope and live out her/his own American dream!  He specifically encouraged college students to take chances (like starting a business), or asking-out the cute girl/guy they find attractive, to marry young and raise lots of children in Judeo-Christian homes! This is indeed how our country has been made great and how our country will MAGA!

Mike and I are so blessed to be living the life Charlie spoke about! We met and married young (25 years ago) in May of 2001.  Mike was 26 and I was 24.  We didn’t have much money but he was mature for his age, had his Masters Degree and a good job in sales. I had a job working as a Social Pathologist for Orange Unified School District and was in the very beginning of my Masters program. 

We dreamed about having four children, owning a house in Huntington Beach (which seemed way out of our price range at the time!) and having me stay-home as the full time CEO of our house!  Through hard work and trials (Jesus did say “take up your cross and follow me”)  God has allowed us to live our American Dream and then some!  As an added bonus to our four children and house in Huntington Beach, we own a business, a dog and a wake surf boat. Honestly, the Bible verse Ephesians 3:20 in action, “Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.”

At 49, I have realized I have loved goal setting my entire life (like Charlie but with a different God-given purpose) and seeing what God can do to help us accomplish our goals! Some goals can even seem a little out of reach but somehow the Holy Spirit comes in and helps us at just the right timing! Some of my goals can still bother my husband a lil’ bit when I first come up with the new idea (especially when it comes to traveling) but he is learning to enjoy the ride via planes, trains, shuttles, subways, buses, cruise ships, boats and road trips; 😉 Plus he has been editing all of our photos from the last 25 years and is appreciating what a rich-full life God has given us for taking all the chances He has provided us! 

After 25 years of marriage, our dreams, goals and blessings keep coming! Like I said, I am beginning Day #1 of my 75-Day Hard today and for my 45-minute outdoor workout my husband and I wakesurfed, e-foiled and paddle boarded.  For lunch, we had a picnic on our boat w/ tuna salad lettuce wraps and ice-cold watermelon.  Nothing beats ice cold watermelon on a hot boat day!  The “Hard” part of my Day #1 was watching my husband eat chips at lunch and not indulging as well as going back to our sun scorched VRBO to do my indoor yoga workout. It’s a tough American Life but somebody’s got to do it! 

All of these blessings & dreams have been fulfilled by God and only because of the great country we are so beyond blessed to live in, combined with our own goal setting & hard work. “May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed!” Psalm 20:4

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-Mrs. Smith *Social Pathologist MS (Weekly Blogger @AmenWeekly.com)

Day #1 of my 75 Day Hard! 9/10/2026

*75 Day Hard Challenge as a Spiritual Journey Goal: To buffet my body (1 Corinthians 9:27) and get even stronger (mentally, spiritually <3, & physically) through a modified 75-Day Hard which will have me living even more of my very best life by the time I turn 50 this February 2027! Philippians 4:13 “I kick & I stretch and I kick;)” 

June 10, 2026

We want to spread the good news of how God has helped Emily (our oldest) make her dream of going away to college come true just like Psalm 20:4 May He give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed!

As a child, Emily, always dreamed of having the full, “go away to college, dorm experience” and she has done just that at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo the last 4 years! She has had so much fun she doesn’t even like talking about moving out at the end of June! 

As a freshman, she left for college, really excited and ready for the opportunity. She had probably been ready since about 3rd grade;) I (her mom), however, was nervous for both her spirituality and safety. She had been a youth ministry leader at church but was kinda soured on faith. She also moved into the dorm that Kristin Smart lived in when she was murdered at that school, when I was a freshman in college (1996).

God really used that situation to grow my faith in Him and her! God gave her exactly what she wanted (Psalm 20:4) and she took the opportunity and thoroughly enjoyed her Freshman year dorm experience and made all kinds of friends & memories. Once she was able to have a car on campus, sophomore year, she has been our typical “Dora the Explorer baby” and enjoying everything that the San Luis Obispo area has to offer! I often text to try and schedule a time to facetime her or check Find My and see she is hiking, taking cold plunges at the beach, volunteering at the animal shelter, at the a zoo in Santa Barbara, at a concert, playing pickle ball, attending sorority dances, at a Rodeo or in her rodeo class, at Hearst Castle, line dancing… you name it! 

What has touched me most is that she has found and is going to a church called Active in San Luis Obispo. It was such a blessing to me because she had us go with her when we were visiting for my bday weekend in February:) Her Dad and I now watch some of the sermons at home if she says it’s a relevant message for our family! She really has grown into such a beautiful young lady (inside & out) and it reminds me of the movie Sabrina with Harrison Ford (minus the affair with the old man);) Also, instead of going to Europe and getting into photography, she found church & photography class at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo!

We hope you will join us in praying for Emily that she follows the Holy Spirit’s lead, models Christian character in her career & social life and meets the Christian man of her dreams continuing with Psalm 20:4 May He give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed:)  You could also send her prayer texts/instagram posts on or after her graduation date of Sunday June 14, 2026.

Mathew 28:6

Testimony: Way back when, (in 2018), we tried to host a real Passover with 8-10 other families from our children’s Catholic grammar school.  Although I thought it was a great hands-on-learning experience for kids to explain why Christians take communion, it was kinda a bust because the kids didn’t really like the food:(

In fact, one of the Dads, jokingly afterwards, told me, “Christian’s like their bread like they like their Messiah, Risen!” 

Solution: Since then, I have tried to host a one day Passover each year, (during Holy Week) as a tradition just for our own family of 6. It is fun to get creative and try and brainstorm foods that don’t contain leaven but that our kids already love (or at least like).  Our focus is on telling the story of the Exodus. 

Example Menu 2025:

Smith Family Passover 

Main: Lemon Chicken 

Side: Mash Potatoes

Dessert: Strawberries with Nutella

Matzo  

Sparkling Cider (w/ real wine glasses!)

Example Menu 2025:

Smith Family Easter Sunday Brunch

Main: Fancy Nancy’s Holiday Quiche

Side: Banana Bread 

Side: Leftover Matzo

Side: Refrigerated Entenmann’s Chocolate & Glazed Donuts

Side: Fruit plate w/ Strawberries, Bananas & other Fruit

The Smith’s Passover 2026

The above menus are just examples of our Passover and Easter Sunday Brunch Meals from last year (2025). Our four children absolutely love mashed potatoes and they are “leaven free” so this is a great food for me (as Chef Mom) to make because all our children love it!  If your child/dren don’t like mashed potatoes then you want to brainstorm and think of a main, side dish and dessert they truly love to try and get this tradition to be something they look forward to! 

Our kids are much older now (ages 22, 20, 17 and 14) than when we started in 2018 (14, 12, 9 & 6) and Emily is away in college and Mikey is working so it is just gonna be four of us this year! Last year our oldest, Emily, made her Out-of-This-World Lemon Chicken. However, this year she is back at college and unable to cook. I’m short on time because we are leaving out-of-town so I’m gonna make it easy and buy an already cooked rotisserie chicken at Sprouts, make mashed potatoes and call it a one-day Passover!  This makes it quick and easy and will leave leftovers for Mikey when he gets home from umpiring.

The most important part during the Passover Meal is focusing on retelling the story of the Exodus through the meal tradition.  You can retell the story in your own words or have someone who is Jewish join you (as we were blessed to have back in 2018). Then have her/him tell the story that was passed on to her/him from their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, ect.! 

During the meal, talk about whether or not the children think it is hard to give up leaven for one day. If it is not difficult for your child/ren (especially because you have provided a bunch of foods they love!) talk about if it would be hard to give up leaven all week as the Jewish people were mandated to do! Of course it depends on how much your kids like carbs!! If giving up leaven is not difficult for your child because they don’t care for it anyways, talk to your child about something they have given up before.  If they are Catholic maybe they gave up meat on Fridays or they picked something for Lent to give up for 40 days? If your child has never “given up” something then you can remind them of when they were babies.  Maybe they had to give up a favorite blanket “lovie” or pacifier “binky” and how they felt and how they feel about it now?

Talk to the bread winner or the bread maker of the house about whether it would be hard to throw all the leaven in your house away for an entire week! To me that would be so wasteful and expensive! I think I would try and use everything ahead of time so I didn’t waste the time shopping and our hard earned money but was still abiding by God’s law!

The point is to try and tell her/him your experience(s) of giving something up. Sometimes it can be a more serious sacrifice like something they had to give up because of an illness or an accident or a real God-given trial we have experienced. The conversation focus should be on a sacrifice and how it was difficult (or sometimes very difficult) but now we are happy and thankful God brought us out of it!

I love how in the TV show the Chosen they start saying, “It would have been enough!” Dennis Prager (in his Passover for Quarantine 2020) talks about how this is really the main prayer recitation.  This part of the tradition is really teaching the children gratitude (even in difficult circumstances) but again you can take this celebration as far as you want depending on your child(ren)’s social and educational level(s)!

Focusing on the Jews going through slavery in Egypt and God freeing them quickly before the bread could rise was God’s mandate for the tradition! Jesus sacrificing his body (bread) on the cross means when we believe in His death & resurrection we quickly have eternal life! Through the tradition, God was trying to teach the generations of parents (who have loving relationships with their children) all kinds of lessons but the main lesson was that everything works out for God’s reasons!  Romans 8:28 say  “And in ALL things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.” The Passover is all about the Jews being freed quickly from physical slavery in Egypt and Easter is all about belief in Jesus’ death and resurrection quickly freeing us from physical and spiritual death!

If you are Christian, you can also have family members share stories of their Exodus from sin or an abusive relationship (depending on your children’s ages and if you feel it is good timing in your own child’s/children’s social-emotional development and your relationship with them).  

Just talking about the Exodus, yearly, and how God mandated (4 times in the Bible) that parents tell their children the story as a celebration tradition will bring blessings into your family life! It is a great reminder of how quick God was, and is, able (he has absolute control) to bring people out of slavery to man and/or sin! 

I would also highly suggest retelling the story through the Bible. For younger children, use children’s bibles with illustrated pictures. This retelling of the story each year (at your child’s social-educational level) will help the Holy Spirit individualize your children’s understanding of the Exodus, to fit each of her/his needs each year which is the miraculous part of this age-old God-mandated Jewish tradition:)

Attach Dennis Prager (2020 quarantine Passover Seder) 

If you have the time and want to host a real Sedar/Passover Dennis Prager hosts a fabulous video example of his Passover during quarantine. You don’t need to get this detailed to start (especially if you are a parent of young children & feeling overwhelmed) but if you have the time to watch the video and implement more of the tradition he explains the symbolism of salt water, parsley, a hard-boiled egg, horseradish, charoset (nuts, raisins & honey) and haggado.  Again, if you have young children, I would strongly suggest making it easy to start. It’s more the repetition of the meal tradition and retelling the story each year that helps the children understand why they take communion and that God/Jesus has all control to deliver them from evil! In our real family life of just discovering celebrating Passover, it has been fun to add new things every year as children get older because it keeps it challenging and fresh for the kids and us as parents who are hosting the tradition!

As far as dessert, our kids absolutely love farm fresh strawberries and they taste like candy dipped in Nutella so this is an easy & delicious dessert to nibble on while your watching an Exodus related movie or TV show such as: 

Vegie Tales (young kids will love these!)

The 10 Commandments with Charlton Heston

The Chosen Season 5 (w/ flashback episodes of the Passover in every episode!)

Again, don’t feel overwhelmed! You don’t have to read every story or watch every movie/TV Show/YouTube clip every year!  Parents just exposing children to the Exodus story through a meal tradition is a social- hands-on-experience enough and helps children understand how the Exodus relates to communion, Holy Week and/or Lent which will educate them as Historians, Judeo-Christians and ignite the Holy Spirit inside of them:)

On Easter, especially for young kids, you can make their favorite treat with leaven and have them compare it with the leftover Matza! Our children love Banana Bread, brown rolls and strawberry shortcake so those foods with leaven would work well for our children when they were younger but you know your child/ren’s favorite leaven-packed carb to eat so have the treat and the Matza to compare and contrast! It makes good Easter conversation!

February 8, 2026

Jesus said to His disciples, “You are the SALT of the earth. You are the Light of the world.”  

You (Disciples of Jesus) are the SALT of the earth! Salt is an ingredient that can be used to preserve food & dead bodies. 

In ancient times, farming had seasons of feast and famine and people relied on salt to preserve food during winter or times of shortage.   In modern times, especially in Southern California, we have meats, fresh fruits, vegetables and wheat available to us year round so we don’t understand the value (the preserving qualities) of salt as much as the people did in ancient times when Jesus was telling his disciples they were the salt of the earth. The disciples relied on using salt to preserve foods so they would not starve in the winter without hunting or harvest season so they knew if they were told they were salt they were very important to preserving the earth! 🌍 

Jesus goes on to say if salt loses its flavor it is worthless. 

Coming from Modern times, I had to google “Can salt lose its flavor? How does salt lose its flavor?”

Google said, “Salt can lose its flavor, not because pure sodium chloride spoils, but due to contamination, moisture absorption (causing clumping and dilution), additional additives are added or it gets wet.  So the disciples (& we as disciples) are the salt of the earth meaning spiritually we are preserving the earth as long as we are not contaminating ourselves through our flesh or worldly values, dry up from our baptism, add anything additional to the word of God (Revelation 22:18-19) or water down the truth or our testimony. Jesus didn’t say (as disciples) we can try to “Be salt”, he said WE (as disciples) ARE SALT. We are preserving the earth spiritually for the afterlife whether we know it or not!

Ironically, the rich-elite royal social classes in ancient Egypt (around 1300-1500 years before Jesus told his disciples they were the salt of the earth) were using salt to preserve their bodies from decay. Their goal for mummifying themselves was eternal life. They thought that if someone invented a medicine to help them come back to life after death but their body was decomposed they would miss the opportunity to come back to life. This is an example in ancient times of Ecclesiastes 3:11 which says, God set eternity in the human heart. Jesus is saying we are the salt of the earth and we are preserved for eternal life and we are preserving eternal life for others!

Jesus also said to his disciples, “You are the light of the world!”

John Diaz had an interview with Oprah that I love! John Diaz told Oprah of his near death experience (NDE). He physically died just after a plane crash but his body was spiritually alive floating above his physical body.  He said he saw some of the other people who had also died in the plane crash. They were floating out of their physical bodies into spiritual bodies as well, out of the seats of the plane and up out of the airplane.  He said he noticed some of the people’s spiritual bodies were more colorful and brighter than others! Seeing this made him want to live a better life so that when he dies he is a more colorful soul/spirit!  For our kids, who are from GenZ, these people had a more colorful “aura.”  Biblically, living a life full of the actions of the fruits of the spirit which are patience, kindness/grace, honesty, faithfulness, gentleness/humility and self-control in our daily lives will make us more colorful spirits both on this earth and in the afterlife!

Psalm 119:105 says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” The word of God/the Bible in action is the light inside each of us!💡 WE (as disciples) ARE SALT (preserving the earth) but we are trying to BE LIGHT everyday with the help of the Holy Spirit! We, as disciples, are the power source but the problem is our children are living in the social media age where everyone has to check boxes and in that space they can only be light to people within their algorithm-as opposed to light to the world!

Prayers for Our Children!

Praying for our children that their souls/spirits are constantly becoming more colorful with the help of the Holy Spirit as they are acting with patience, kindness/grace, honesty/integrity, faithfulness, gentleness/humility & self-control in everything they do! Praying that they focus on loving themselves as God loves them and being light in their real world life (as opposed to the social media life) as daughters/sons, sisters, brothers, friends, roommates, classmates, teammates, employees and eventually as employers, spouses and parents themselves. 

Song: Firework By: Katie Perry