Strength and Hope

5-1-2011
I woke up this morning with a new and unfamiliar feeling in my heart: HOPE! See, I usually wake up thinking "oh boy here we go again...Another opportunity to do the same boring things I did yesterday, and feel the same old way." WELL NOT TODAY! No today I feel like God is doing a new thing within me. He is trading beauty for ashes just like His Word says. My past is not one I am prous of to say the least. But I weep with joy even this very minute as I am blessed beyond measure. I am blessed by the fact that my past has been forgiven and wiped away and that I am a new creation in God's eyes! All the drugs, booze, sex and partyibg in all the world will never again be enough to give me this feeling! Who am I that God would give me strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow? I am His child...and He loves me!