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I Choose Today to Celebrate His Legacy

Molinda Hern December 28, 2024

Today, my son would have turned 31 years old. Though his life was brief, it left an eternal imprint on my heart. The memories I have of him are tender, precious, and irreplaceable. Losing him to SIDS was a heartbreak that shook my soul, but his life continues to shape the way I love, live, and trust God. Grief is a journey, one that doesn’t truly end but evolves as time passes. What I’ve learned along the way is that God meets us in the middle of our sorrow. Psalm 34:18 reminds us, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; He rescues those whose spirits are crushed.” This has been my experience: God’s presence has been my refuge, His promises my anchor. As I reflect on my son’s life today, I am reminded of the lessons his brief time on earth taught me. His life, though short, revealed the beauty and depth of love—a love that doesn’t end when life on this earth does. His legacy reminds me to cherish the small, fleeting moments and to trust God with every step, even when the road feels impossibly hard. Grief has a way of opening our hearts to see the world

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I Choose Today to Receive Love

Molinda Hern December 24, 2024

“What the world needs now is love sweet love.” Those are lyrics to a song from years gone by, but the sentiment has been around for millennia. Christmas is the day we celebrate the birth of Jesus. He is the result of God’s love to the world. John 3:16 says, “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son [to die as a sacrifice for the world], so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.” It was out of the deep love God had for us that He sent His Son to die in our place as a perfect and final lamb sacrifice for our sins. He wanted to save the world from the curse of death that came as a result of the fall. It was no mistake that Jesus was born in a place where animals were typically born and cared for since He was to be the perfect sacrificial lamb to break the curse and restore our relationship with God that He intended. God loves us that much. God sacrificed that much to redeem us. All we have to do is accept that love sweet

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I Choose Today to Find God in the Unexpected

Molinda Hern December 21, 2024

One of the things we can ascertain from reading the Bible and living as a child of God, is He rarely, if ever, does things the way we expect or anticipate. As a result, we see over and over again stories of missing God’s goodness and miracles God is doing in and among us. Even worse, we risk missing the fullness of His presence. John 1:10-11 (NLT) “He came into the very world He created, but the world didn’t recognize Him. He came to His own people, and even they rejected Him.” It broke Jesus’ heart that the city which was the center of His chosen people, didn’t recognize Him. We might think they were foolish not to recognize and accept Him when He was walking among us, right? But we do the same thing, don’t we? We think we are right in our expectations of God because it makes sense to us. But that is where we miss recognizing that He is walking among us. Isaiah 55:8-9 says, “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so

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I Choose Today to Detox

Molinda Hern December 19, 2024

Have you ever done a detox before? It’s a process where you recognize that your body needs to be cleansed from the inside out. The goal of a detox is to eliminate anything in your body that could be causing harm, even in ways you might not fully understand. To detox, it’s customary to do a cleanse: eat the right foods, take special supplements, and drink plenty of water to flush out toxins. The idea behind this cleansing process is not to go back to how things were, but to start fresh—to have a clean slate and a new beginning. Just as our bodies need a detox, so do our hearts. King David understood this when he prayed: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭23-24‬ ‭(NLT‬‬) One of the things the Holy Spirit revealed to me that needed cleansing from my heart was the area of complaining. I suddenly realized how often I was grumbling about minor inconveniences—traffic, long lines, or unexpected changes. It started to weigh me down and even affect how

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I Choose Today to be Transformed

Molinda Hern December 17, 2024

She came to the well that day just like any other—avoiding people, carrying her shame, and longing for something more. But when the Samaritan woman met Jesus, everything changed. Her encounter with Him transformed her life, and it’s a transformation still available to us today. All the people who had a true encounter with Jesus was transformed by His love, just like the Samaritan woman at the well. Like the Samaritan woman, I too was transformed by my encounter with Jesus when I was 19 years old. Someone who knew me at the time would have described me as a person who didn’t have a lot going for herself. No education, no real skills, made shameful mistakes, and I was someone society might have overlooked or dismissed as unimportant. But then I had an encounter with Jesus and He transformed my life. He saw all those things others thought about me, met me where I was, and loved me anyway. Not only did Jesus transform me back when I was 19, but I continued to be transformed by my daily encounter with Jesus through the work of the Holy Spirit in my life. Jesus’ transformation didn’t stop when I first

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