Well, that slipped right passed me!

Ears that hear and Eyes that see-- the Lord has made them both. Proverbs 20:12

You know moms how you over hear something and it stops you dead in your tracks. Well, that is exactly what happened. I am doing chores when out of the next room, I hear my children and neighborhood children discussing spells and this battle and the next life and reincarnation; one evil after another. My heart drops to my stomach. Did I really allow this into my  home? How could I have not checked into this further?  Oh, it really is just a trading card game.  As I am flying down the stairs and onto the web to research this "trading card game."

Now, I am not legalistic and fanatical but hold on to your seats mom.  What I allowed into my home without my first checking it out was so demonic my inner core shook. The pictures and titles on these cards are devilish.  Please take the time to research the "games" your children are allowing to put before their eyes and their ears. The very eyes and ears the precious Lord created and died for.

As we moved passed tears and explanations into prayer asking for forgiveness and protection, our family has rid those "games" from our home.

From Record to Cassette tape to CD!

I am always telling my children how to engage others around them. "It's okay, just walk up to them and say something like...." How incredible our God is to now put that all knowing loving mother's words and encouragement right in front of her. You know that old saying 'Put your money where your mouth is.'
An opportunity was before me to reach out and meet someone new. I could tell she was trying to find a way to talk to me. I continued to look her direction but clammed up. I am not like this as an adult. What was wrong with me today?

How hard it was as a child to engage a group of girls you don't know. I would never have walked up to a crowd the way I push, I mean encourage, my children to do. Today it is still a struggle. I am more confident in who I am since I know to who I am responsible.

But those old tapes play in my head. Remember those tapes when you were in middle school and high school. I couldn't have been the only girl out there who thought the world was watching and judging every breath she took. One wrong move and the 'friends' would laugh and cut you down...or so the tapes played.
Those tapes are really encouragement from the one who does not want to lift me up but wants to tear me down. Another tidbit I share with my children. We have a choice every time we open our mouths to build up or tear down. We have to take that tape that plays the evil one's put downs and rip the tape up.

It is only when we know who we are in Jesus that we can take the monotonous tapes and learn to replace them with the words from the only One who wants to give us unconditional love. There is no other love that is unconditional. The words of Christ are the words we want to replace the tape with and turn on our Jesus CD.

Take the tape of the past and transform it into a new creation--the CD

2Cr 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!