Truth with Tracey

  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?  - Matthew 6:26-27 (NIV) Do you know how extremely valuable you are?  This scripture says if your Heavenly Father, the one who created you cares for the birds by feeding them, providing for them, how much more valuable and cared for are you? Can worrying about anything add a single hour to your life? What I have found true is that worrying or stressing over something will not change or add a single hour to my life but actually steals precious time and energy. It’s not productive or even effective. I’m definitely a recovering worry addict. If I wasn’t worried then life wasn’t normal. I let worry consume me and what I learned was that it was like a cord around my neck getting tighter and tighter until I couldn’t breathe. I was trapped in a cycle of not...

 How many self defeating thoughts do we have that sabotage our day before we even leave the house? Sometimes before we even get out of bed. What if we realized we had the power within to control what we think about? To not let every negative thought or complaint take root in our mind.  The greatest truth and revelation in this has changed my life.  What if each one of us walked around thinking we already have everything we need to get through our day? What if we left our houses loved, healed and whole beings instead of looking to people, places and things to make us feel loved, healed and whole? What if we already posses all that we need to fulfill our purpose and calling?  The good news is we do. We have all we need on the inside of us for healing and wholeness. We are loved. We are made right. We are whole. We are chosen because of the love found in  Jesus Christ. He is your healing. He is your wholeness. Will you allow him access to all your hurts, hang ups a...

 What if all along there was a hand guiding your every step along this journey of life? Would it make us feel more secure, more loved, knowing that this hand would only guide us into everything for our good? Not that all that happens to us is good but all that happens works for our good. Well, this is a great and precious promise from the Lord. In his Word he tells us in Romans chapter 8:28, that in ALL things he works for the good for those who love him and are called according to his purpose.  So, I have heard about Jesus and stories about God the Creator of the universe, been taught the Bible and went to church as far back as the second grade. I remember a teacher asking me if I would like to accept Jesus into my heart while sitting at a desk. I remember her excitement as I said yes and I remember feeling like I just did a very good thing. But for most of my childhood and teen years, this decision didn’t seem to change anything. I went to church, sang gospel songs, every al...

 Have you ever wondered why trying so hard to produce the right things in your life ends up at a dead end? As hard as you try to say and do the right thing sometimes it just falls short. Or maybe trying to start a new habit, especially with the new year here, new resolutions, a chance at a fresh start . Here’s my story of surrendering to trusting and breaking up with trying . The more self focused I am has always led to feelings of inadequacy, defeat, depression, disappointment, frustration, even despair. Ah, but when I trust, putting my focus on the One, the Creator who has woven me together in my mothers womb , who knows when I sit and when I rise, who perceives  my thoughts from afar, who has numbered the hairs on my head. Who cares about the state of my mind, heart and soul. Whose desire it is for healing and wholeness. Trusting Him to do his work in me. Abiding, trusting the One who holds the world holds my heart and cares about my growth. So I let go.. knowing in Him I a...