Anna M. Aquino

Have you ever been in those kinds of seasons in your life when you know that all sorts of things are in the works and just around the corner but you can’t really see it? You know it’s there. You don’t have exacts, but it’s almost like if you just reached a little further you could touch it? It can be a season of frustration and irritation. I know that a lot of people have this misguided notion that God likes to play with them similar to how you’d play with a cat and a ball of string. Many people think that when you get close to it God likes to move things further. God is not like that. HE wants you to fulfill His will for your life more than you do. He created you for it. There are many reasons why God doesn’t reveal to you everything at once. One of them is it wouldn’t really be faith if we knew everything. Faith builds trust. God doesn’t want a bunch of pawns in the game of chess. He wants us to work with Him in teamwork to get to where He’s called us to. We have to keep trust...

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...