Find your peace because life is short, if asked when will you die the answer is so simple that it’s complicated… “in one breath” Life ends with a breath and death begins with a breath… live like today like it is your last because somebody took your place today, make them proud…

I would first like to take this opportunity to say thank you to each and everyone of you who recognize God as I ask for us to be gentle on those who are not Christians. Let’s give them a reason to believe that we are not all hypocrites and that we do not all condemn because it doesn’t matter where you are it matters where you’re going, let us be the light that helps them find their way not the reason they stay away. Remember, forgiveness is greater than vengeance; compassion more powerful than anger. So, rather than please Satan with anger let us choose to be a pleasure in the sight of God as we join together in prayer for these people who have displayed foul behavior and blasphemy with faith that God will soften their hearts to break the chains of bondage that they may breakthrough to the innocence and faith of a child so they may fix their eyes on God because as God teaches us to pray for the genuine forgiveness that heals any hurts or wrongs. It strengthens the disheartened soul that has lost its way. It refreshes and renews our hope. It is through forgiveness that we are “born again” and “become like a child.” In this way we regain the precious attitude of a willing mind that is ready to learn all over again as for me and as for me I am just a girl, a child of God who realizes that I fall short of Gods grace everyday and I recognize that God gives it to me each day I awake out of his amazing mercy…

This one is for those who doubt, curse and blame God for their pain instead of taking a self inventory and praying gratitude to God for peace and abundance… Today I release another piece of the puzzle, I was looking at pictures of my family from times lost past and was reminded of the secrets that live deep within the walls of my family where sororicide, fratricide and familicide were a cultural common act, a house of secrets that have haunted me from what I witnessed as a small child. God was always there and is always with me. People always ask me what motivates me to do the things I do and where does my curiosity of human behavior come from. I knew at 13 one thing for certain and two things for sure 1.) “this is not my life” and 2.) I will be the change I wish to see in this world by breaking the silence. At 10 years old when I was becoming more fluent in English and living on Indian Territory with my first language Cherokee my grandmother passed away only after confessing on her death bed that she took the life of her baby sister when she was a child, in December of 1996 my aunt who raised me passed away and confessed a similar act of taking the life of her baby sister before my mother was born. As so many of you know my mother passed when I was 8 years old, she too had taken lives. My dad left when I was 6 months old. I fought my way into this world as my mother attempted to abort me three times only to leave me on the steps of a Coca Cola plant with a note attached to my dress shortly after taking the life of my baby sister, my aunt later came at me with a butcher knife when I was maybe 9 years old. I have been stabbed, left stranded and lived in a car with my daughter only after my first daughter was kidnapped and 5 years later found in Mexico; not once did I get angry at God instead I fixed my eyes on God and asked God what do I do to be a pleasure in his sight that he may find mercy to reunite me with my daughter and after all law enforcement gave up God delivered her to me… God continues to bless me well beyond what I could ever earn, repay or deserve in immeasurable proportion and continues to protect from everything I am certain I deserve… I am truly grateful for all of these life events because it has made me who I am today and has given me to you as each of you continue to so graciously welcome me into your hearts as family and for this I am most humbled with gratitude because each of you are unique in my life as each of you inspire me to be a better person as I continue to grow everyday… and today I choose to live in gratitude and forgiveness. It is beautiful to see others share their high regards coming from a place of gratitude… I do not need permission to love and I require no validation… May God shine his grace on you… All glory to God…

Let us pray as Jesus because as for me I would rather follow a great example then lead by ignorance…

~Lisa Christiansen