IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES

 MY MOTHER WOKE ME UP THIS MORNING BEFORE SHE LEFT FOR WORK AND TOLD ME THAT SHE LOVED ME.  ONCE I GOT UP, I CHECKED MY PHONE FOR MESSAGES AND TEXTS.  THREE OTHER PEOPLE WHO MEAN ALOT TO ME HAD ALSO BRIGHTENED UP MY DAY WITH WORDS OF LOVE.  I WENT OUTSIDE ONTO THE FRONT PORCH AND WAS GREETED BY A BEAUTIFUL MORNING.  IF I HAD TO CHOOSE A WAY TO WAKE UP, THIS MORNING WOULD HAVE BEEN A PRIME EXAMPLE OF HOW TO DO JUST THAT.  I WOKE UP TO A PURE EXAMPLE OF LOVE!

OH, BUT, IT WASNT ALWAYS THIS WAY.......

I USED TO WAKE UP ANGRY.  I SLEPT TIL ALMOST NOON AND ONCE I DID GET UP, I WAS LOOKING FOR A DIFFERENT KIND OF LOVE.  I WAS SEARCHING FOR MY LOVE OF FALSE HAPPINESS.  I HAD TO FEED MY LOVE OF ADDICTION.  I WOKE UP TO ENDLESS LIES WHICH MY LOVE OF DECEIT HAD CREATED.  I WOKE UP TO A LOVE OF CHAOS, MISERY AND CONFUSION.  I WAS CAUGHT UP IN AN ENDLESS CYCLE OF WHAT I HAD CREATED.  I WAS LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES. 

I WISH WORDS COULD EXPRESS THE CHANGES WHICH HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN MY LIFE.  THE MICHELLE MILLER WHO SITS HERE AND WRITES THESE DAILY "NOTES" IS NOT THE SAME MICHELLE MILLER WHO ONCE RIPPED AND RAN.  THE GOOD LORD SAW FIT TO BRING ME TO MY KNEES AND TURN ME AWAY FROM MY PATH OF DESTRUCTION.  HE TRULY PERFORMED A MIRACLE IN MY LIFE.  ALL I HAD TO DO WAS LET HIM.  GOD DOESNT FORCE HIMSELF UPON ANYONE, YET, HE PATIENTLY WAITS FOR US ALL.  OUR LIVES ARE ALL A POTENTIAL TESTIMONY.  HE HAS TURNED MY ENTIRE EXISTANCE INTO A MIGHTY TESTIMONY INDEED!  ALL I HAD TO DO WAS TURN IT ALL OVER TO HIM.  I AM AMAZED EACH DAY BY THE POWER OF THE LORD!  HE HAS SHOWN ME THE TRUE MEANING OF LOVE!  IF HE DID IT FOR ME, HE CAN AND HE WILL DO IT FOR YOU!
  
HEBREWS 12:2  ...LOOKING UNTO JESUS, THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH
  
MATTHEW 6:33  "BUT SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED TO YOU"
  
1 CORINTHIANS 13:13  AND NOW ABIDE FAITH, HOPE, LOVE, THESE THREE; BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE