My Journey To Healing

Hi Everyone.  Yesterday Tim, Shia and I enrolled in Christian Healthcare Ministries.  What a wonderful and unique program this is.  We signed up yesterday and our first payment isn’t due until Mar. 1, 2011…first 2 months are free.  Just in time for off season.  I just wish I would have know about this before we got pregnant then we would have only had to pay $500 and the rest would have been covered by CHM.  I am so excited and pleased with our decision that I felt lead to share it with you in hopes that it can help you or someone else you know.

If you or someone you know are interested in saving significant dollars over traditional health insurance then this is an excellent option.  You can learn more about CHM by going to their web-site www.chministries.org.

Things I do know about CHM:  There is no registration fee, Accepted by doctors and hospitals nationwide, Enrollment by phone takes less than five minutes, Protection for accidental injuries begins immediately, Provision is made for most pre-existing conditions, CHM currently serves over 20,000 members in all 50 states, References are available upon request.

If you’d like detailed and personal information give my friend Dick Lupton a call or email him at RDL@chministries.org (1-800-791-6225 ext 5236)  he will be more than happy to assist you.  Please feel free to share this information to others.

Tis the season to BE LOVE & GIVE LOVE

An excerpt from my book “Blossoming Out of the Valley“, Chapter called ~Stillness With God~

When you truly begin to be still and know that He is God, your whole world will begin to change. When you take time each day to focus on the character of God, His love, peace and joy will begin to overtake you. Things will begin to change in your mind and heart. It is such a simple practice, yet it is often a difficult discipline for us to develop. God is waiting, arms open wide, for us to turn and face Him so He can truly begin to bless us, to heal us, to free us.

Stay tuned for more exciting posts regarding the process of my first book “Blossoming Out of the Valley“, inspired by my journey out of the dark valley I was living in.

Be Love & Give Love~abby

Faith doesn’t get us around adversity, it gets us through it.  In the midst of it all, I encourage you to keep pressing forward.  Enjoy this short inspiring video.

Be Love & Give Love~abby

Simple yet powerful video.

Be Love & Give Love~abby

I wanted to share this with you.  I titled it:  A Beautiful Blessing.

About three years ago Grandpa was dying and I remember being home with him and the family as we all came together to take care of Grandpa and each other.  One day Aunt Marva and I were out in the front yard clipping the dry heads off of the zinnia flowers in the front flower bed of Grandma and Grandpa’s house.  I love flowers so I wanted to go and plant the seeds in my yard to remember this bitter sweet time of Grandpa slowly fading away to go back home to be with Jesus.  I thought how wonderful it would be to have those flowers come up year after year to remind me of Grandpa.

I never got around to planting the zinnia seeds the following year because I had tucked the seeds away and forgot about them actually.  But later that year I found the seeds and decided that I was definitely going to plant them the following season, which was the spring of 2009.  My husband and I don’t know much about landscaping but we made a flower bed in our side yard and Mom came over to help me plant them.  I was so excited to begin to enjoy the blessings of the beautiful flowers.  A few weeks went by and only a few flowers came up, all at the bottom of the flower bed.  I realized then that our flower bed was not flat enough and that we should have built it up more because the seeds must have gotten washed away by the rain.  So I was only lucky enough to have a few flowers but I thought once they dry out I will clip the heads off and plant them again the next year, which would have been this last spring.  But that never happened because a big wind storm came through a ripped the few flowers I had completely out and away and I had nothing left of the sweet memory of the flowers to remind me of Grandpa, the only things that came up this year in that flower bed was a bunch of weeds.

Just a couple of weeks ago we lost Grandma and as we know people generally buy plants or flowers for the family to show their sympathy.  Tim, my husband, had asked that I please not come home from the funeral with any plants.  When Grandpa died I was fortunate enough to get a couple of plants from the funeral that I cherish and take special care of.  I love plants and have a ton of them in my house.  It looks like a jungle.  Tim told me to not come home with any plants because we actually don’t have any more room for them.  He also told his mom who wanted to get me a special plant, not to buy me a plant because we didn’t need anymore and that we didn’t have any room for another plant.  I was a little upset that he denied me a blessing of a plant from his mom.  Surely we could find room for one more plant.  I wanted to submit to Tim and honor what he asked me to do but I was very tempted to bring a plant home when Aunt Faye said that there were three small plants that didn’t have anyone’s name on them and I was welcome to them if I wanted.  I thought to myself, they are even small plants, surely I could take one home and Tim would understand.  But the still small voice said to me, “Do not disobey what your husband has asked you to do, respect him and submit to him.”  So I resisted and headed back home to Branson with no plants.

I had been gone from Branson for four days and to my surprise when I pulled up to my house I stopped to check my mail and looked up at my side yard and in that flower bed in the midst of all those weeds was a single little pink zinnia flower, Grandma’s favorite color.  I just looked at it and cried sweet tears and said thank you Lord.  The next day I went outside and pulled the weeds up and loved on that flower and just enjoyed it.  A couple days later there was another pink flower blooming from that single plant and then another one and another one.  God spoke to me and said, “thank you for submitting to your husband’s wishes to not bring home a plants as he asked you to.  I had something better in store for you.  Something that I knew would touch your heart deeply.”  And it did and still does as I see those flowers every day that I know God caused to bloom while I was gone saying bye to Grandma.  Now this year I will try again to clip the heads off and plant the seeds again next year and every year after that until I have a full field of zinnia flowers to remember both Grandma and Grandpa by.  What a beautiful blessing!

Love Love and more Love

Abby

Make this choice today ~

Today choose to see the world, your circumstances, your spouse, your family, your friends, your co workers, your finances, your pain, your disease, your career, your entire life through the eyes of God.   If we could just wear God’s glasses for a day… how would things change, how would we change, how would our relationships change, how would our careers change, how would our attitudes change, how would our finances change, how would our entire existence change? Life would be overflowing with the love of God constantly if we would only choose to see as God sees .   I imagine that God see with a perfect 20/20 vision of love.

So what exactly is love?  If God is love and we are called to be imitators of God then lets define love from a biblical perspective.  In 1st Corinthians 13 it reads that love is patient, love is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, love is not proud, love is not rude, love is not self seeking, love is not easily angered, love keeps no record of wrongs, love does not delight in evil, love rejoices with the truth, love always protects, love always trusts, love always hopes, love always perseveres and love never fails.  Wow, pretty self explanatory.  So lets do a exercise that is truly convicting.  Again, if we are called to be imitators of God and God is love then you can place your name where love is and read it like this Abby is patient, Abby is kind, Abby does not envy, Abby does not boast and so on.  Go ahead and do this little exercise.  It is powerful when we begin to see life and everything in it as God sees it.

Make the choice today and everyday to see as God sees and choose to have the vision of love.  Be blessed, love unconditionally and enjoy the journey.

Be Love & Give Love~

3 minute inspiring videos that are certain to lift your spirits.  Click on the banner below to watch and purchase if you would like.  Enjoy.  Be Love & Give Love ~abby

A inspiring video that will for sure bring a smile to your face and joy to your heart.

Enjoy!  Be love & Give love ~abby

Choose today to be still, so you can recharge, refocus, reconnect and listen to the still small voice.  You cannot do this journey alone.  God is for you, let Him lead you and guide you, so you will move forward in the right direction.  Stop, take time, today, to listen.

The CD A Breath~In Stillness is a powerful tool that will help you learn how to be still and stay focused on the good in life and on God.  Here is a testimony from a good friend and client who has been using the CD for awhile  now.

She writes:

“When I received  Abby’s A Breath in Stillness CD, I was really struggling with panic and anxiety attacks over many things.  Honestly, during the first few moments of listening I thought “yeah, right.  Who’s got time to do this??”.  But I continued to listen and began to realize this was something that could really help me if I would just take the time to do it.  I began to change my routine and instead of waking up in the morning and going straight to my computer for the bad news of the day, I went out to my porch and said good morning to God.  I listened to the birds, took time to notice the breeze in the trees, and just being quiet, giving my day to Him.  Then I came inside and listened to track #4.  I got up from that session and found a good biblical teaching on the television.  THEN, I went to my computer prepared for the good, the bad and the ugly of the day knowing I have been in God’s presence and having His peace to confront whatever would come my way.  I take the cd with me in the car and when I begin to feel overwhelmed, I put the cd on and start deep breathing, focusing back on the Lord and His help for me.  Sometimes I have to listen three times in a day to stay calm and focused.  God has given me a gift through Abby’s obedience to produce this cd.  He is doing a work in me I might not have found any other way.  Push past your feelings and discover A Breath in Stillness.  This really does work.

So why suffer any longer…let A Breath~In Stillness be the tool that you use to get you moving in a new direction.  The CD is $20…that is including tax and shipping.  This is a small investment for the blessings that are in store for you.  Just click on the link above this post and it will direct you to the Healing CD page of my website.

Be love and give love,

~abby

Inspiring you to move forward in your journey, to become a healthy “whole” individual…spirit, mind & body.

~~Spring Cleaning For Better Health~~

Do you feel spiritually toxic, emotionally toxic and/or physically toxic. Maybe it is time for you to take some time for yourself and really start focusing on you. Maybe it is time to do some deep inner cleaning, so you can be a spouse, mom, dad, sister, brother, child etc. that radiates LOVE. My Healing CD might just be the tool you need to get started with that deep cleansing process. Click on the banner right above this post to listen to a preview sample and order your copy.

Be Love & Give Love,
~abby