James 5:19-20

Good morning, dear girls!

Paula said it so well in her post on the last verses of James. I really like and appreciate her own Bible note that said "See souls. Be brave."! That is such a fantastic way of looking at it. How difficult it can be when we get caught up and swept away in daily, frenetic living! I don't want to be only a skin-deep person, living for and judging only the surface of the world and needing people around me. Everyone needs something whether they know of it or not. I pray to be out there looking for the needs and living off of Christ's strength to help meet those needs.
We are so well-equipped, with God's Words at our everyday fingertips, with his love and power in our hearts - because of his grace, we can literally change the world! I have no doubt that is why we are here. The changes he causes us to make we may stay blind to until heaven - which is definitely a tiresome and difficult understanding - but his grace is sufficient! And it's motivating and exciting to believe he works through us despite our lack of correct vision, sometimes.

I pray for you all, beautiful, growing women of God, that he would give you eyes for the souls of the world. That instead of always and only looking out for ourselves, God would bless us with selflessness and love for the soul-sick and the wanderers and that he would help us - oh that he would help us! - in our frail attempts to make a difference for him. Have patience and be brave! We are not complete. He is working in your life as well as in the lives of those who do not have the bliss of knowing Him...He'll never leave you to your own defenses.

Love you all - I am thinking about you and praying for you all as we near the end of another school year and approach the beautiful, quieter days of summer.
Leaning hard on him with you,
~Cait