New Year, New You, New Me!

Happy New Year!!! So, here we are at week 2 of 2012.  The New Years Resolutions are still ringing and all the buzz about this being an epic year is still fresh.  This year is a special one for many because there has been so much talk of the Mayan calendar ending on December 21st of the year 2012, then there is the Zombie Apocalypse, the presidential elections, the collapse of the American Dollar and much more.  Quite an exciting year of uncertainties to look forward to.  If you want to look at it this way, it could be the end of the world as we know it, so live it up right?! HAHA!  


I have my own perspective on 2012.  I, too, have decided to begin anew.  2011 marked the end of my old life and I even got a tattoo to mark a new beginning.  The tattoo is a key and it symbolizes my choice to remain open and willing to change.  I got it on my arm, very visible, to remind myself to leave behind the old destructive habits, worries, doubts and fears of having to live up to anybody's expectations.  Jesus died on a cross so that all of that stuff would be gone, so leaving it around in my thought closet is just nonsense....finished! 2012 means renewing my spiritual vows, so to speak. My key is heart-shaped.  I am now experiencing life through the filter of love and teaching others about this awesome opportunity.  With this key, I embrace God's plan and allow Him to open new doors.  It is all about FAITH...my commitment to really "Let Go and Let God."  My key, is mainly a celebration in appreciation for the Spirit of God which is alive in me. 

John 14: ¹² Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. ¹³ And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.   ¹⁵ “If you love me, keep my commands. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be^[c] in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. ¹⁹ Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. ²⁰ On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. ²¹ Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
                                                                    
^{John 15: 9} “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. ¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. ¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.
                                                                                                             Jesus



The world will have you believe that The Bible is too this or too that...complicated, harsh, boring, false, controlling, blah blah blah!  I know that it can be if you believe it is so.  But, if you open your heart, silence your thoughts and basically, get out of the way...it is pure nourishment for your Spirit.  I am aware of all the excuses that one could use for not giving it a chance, including the one where you tell yourself you already gave it a chance and it didn't work.  My previous excuses will probably outnumber yours lol.  If it changed a person like me, believe me, it can and will blow your mind...but only if you let it.  Still not convinced?!  No problem.  Just know that you are reading these words for a reason.   Go ahead and read the words of Jesus again.  Don't let the hypocrites of the world convince you that religion is the same as faith.  I know there are many Christians that are misrepresentations of Christ.  Don't miss out on Heaven because you are basing your understanding of The Bible on a picture that has been painted for you by a "religionist" or the rest of the world.  Jesus himself was the opposite of the "religionists" of his time.  Just saying, find out for yourself! Give your heart to God and experience true love and true freedom.  Don't let anybody sell you a counterfeit spirituality. If you want the key, it's free.  And if you want to talk to someone who won't judge you, won't condemn you, will listen to your perspective and will love you just the way you are...call me, write me, message me, text me, you get the point! Don't hesitate, this message is for you and you know it.  THIS IS MY YEAR...WOOOHOOO!  IS THIS YOUR YEAR?! CLAIM IT AND RECEIVE IT!  
I love you guys!

Jennifer Ever 

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