Anna M. Aquino

  Yesterday after church my girls, Dan and I sat around the table eating chili and talking with my oldest daughter about her future.   She was telling us about some dreams she’d had, and we were trying to instruct her as best any parents could.   Without thinking much about what I was saying I responded to her, “Let me give you a piece of advice that I wish someone would have told me regarding the destiny on your life.   Don’t fight it.   The earlier you accept what God is doing, hook into it, the more He can do through you and the less you’ll be miserable in the process.”   I remember that while I probably fought the call of God on my life less than most, I had some moments that I really wasted time fighting.   People may want to argue this point with me.   Didn’t God give us free will?   What are we just pawns on his big game board?   My answer to that is both yes and no.   God did give us free will but he created u...

I have heard people tell me over the years that “You are just one person, and you couldn’t possibly make a difference on this earth.” On this Martin Luther King Jr Day of 2012 I want to remind you all that one person can make a difference. Martin Luther King Jr was one pastor, one father, and one man who essentially changed the world. He helped bring about change in this nation, and when the wars of apartheid sprung up in the 80’s in South Africa I know his inspiration was there as well. One person can make a difference on this earth. Names like Martin Luther (who broke off of the Catholic Church in the 1500’s), Nelson Mandela, Corrie Ten Boom, Anne Frank, and Billy Graham. They were all probably people that would have been considered normal. However, as I wrote in a facebook status update yesterday, “God loves to take ‘normal’ people and do extraordinary things. But it takes the ‘normal’ person to step out of the box of normalcy, and dare to believe Him.” Many of you have heard me tel...