Today is Transformation Tip Tuesday. The top picture was taken earlier in spring as my mini garden had just begun to grow. The bottom picture is my first tomato that is turning red. I was so excited to see it Sunday evening! As I reflect on my new interest in gardening, I realize how amazing vegetable growing is as a plant first begins as a tiny seed. As we become Christians, we also need to be nurtured in order to grow and transform into a healthy witness for Christ. My transformation tip is for you to examine your spiritual growth. What are you doing to allow God to grow you? Your Maker wants to do a new thing in your life. Are you nurturing your growth? Are you planted in healthy soil and being fed and watered? What can you do today to allow God to make a way in your wilderness?

Today is Mindset Monday. The picture I chose today represents to me so many things. I use this shelf to display various seasonal decorations as well as items that represent how blessed I am by God. The sign in the middle, “It’s so good to be home” keeps me mindful of the year long house journey we had and the many blessings that God sent our way along the journey. I want this shelf to always remind me of how good God is and never take my blessings for granted. Today is Memorial Day and we remember all who gave their lives fighting for our freedom. Let’s begin our week with a focus on our blessings. May we use a lens of gratitude this week as we face trials or bumps in the road. Let’s never forget that no matter what, God is good!

“Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.”
‭‭James‬ ‭1:16-18‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Today is Spiritual Sunday and the start of a new week. As you drive down the road of life, are you allowing God to lead you? Or are you making choices and decisions without Him? As you worship today, let go of control and let God lead. His destination leads to joy and eternal pleasure!

Today is Finish Friday! We’ve had a full, busy week. Now it’s time to finish strong. Often in the busy times of life we allow ourselves to lose focus and become entangled with the world. We get wrapped up in sin just as the vine is wrapped around this tree. Today let’s reset our focus. Let’s have perseverance for the “race marked out for us.” Let’s fix our eyes on Jesus! Let this song be a catalyst for us as we finish this Friday strong!

Today is Thankful Thursday and I am exhausted. Baseball season is always a busy time at our house. I fall behind on housework, most meals are eaten on the go, and I feel like a circus juggler. However, I am thankful. I am thankful for the opportunity to watch my son play the game he loves. I am thankful for the friendships and bonds we are all making. And I am thankful for the life lessons we all are learning. So this afternoon when the morning caffeine and adrenaline from last night’s win wear off, I am going to remind myself how thankful I am for the opportunity to be tired today.

How about you? Is there an area of your life that appears to be a mixed blessing? Today I encourage you to look at your burdens through a lens of thankfulness. Look at the load of laundry and be thankful for the clothes to wear. Look at the to do list at work and be thankful for the job. Look at the busy schedule and be thankful for the opportunity. Use today to look through a lens of thankfulness.

“I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭9:1-2‬ ‭NIV‬‬

I sometimes imagine how it must have felt for Peter and Andrew to have Jesus say, “Come follow me.” Here they were, working away at their livelihood of catching fish, and Jesus invites them to drop everything. And they did! “At once they left their nets and followed him.” Wow! How exciting, exhilarating, and scary! How it must have felt to be in their sandals that day! But guess what! Jesus speaks the same invitation to you and I today! Jesus is inviting each of us to drop our nets and follow Him. What area of your life is Jesus asking you to drop the net? Will you follow Him without hesitation? Today prayerfully consider ways Jesus is calling you. Let’s have the courage to drop our nets and follow Him. Let’s walk on water!

Trust: believe in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of

We trust that the cables in this picture will hold the weight of the bridge it supports. We don’t know who built the bridge, we don’t know specifics about how the bridge was built, and we don’t know all the science behind the suspension. However, we trust that the bridge will easily hold up our 2,000-4,000 pound vehicle along with all the others crossing simultaneously. Yet you and I worry all the time about so many others things out of our control when we have someone stronger than a bridge holding us up. Each of us are in the palm of Our Maker’s hands. Our Creator is with us every step we make.

My transportation tip this Tuesday is to look at the huge obstacles and uncertainties you face today and trust. Trust that God will guide and direct your steps. Trust that God loves and cares for you and is holding you up.

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭15:13‬ ‭NIV‬‬