Divinely Hooked

Yes, I am a woman and yes I really hate shopping for myself! I am 5'6 and 150lbs-ish. Most of my weight is in my middle and butt area. I've seemed to have gained some weight around the middle recently and have only one pair of capris that fit. (No idea how I've gained since I've been working out but whatever.) I went to CitiTrends today bc I had a gift card. Apparently my size is somewhere in between the normal sizes and the plus sizes. Out of the 10 items I tried on only one thing fit well enough to buy. I did get another item but it had a draw string so that doesn't really count size wise. Lol I'm not a big person, at all, so to have to try to find the smaller sizes of the plus size clothing is really ridiculous. I even went to another store close by and tried on 7 different items of different sizes and nothing fit! It's crazy. And it's no wonder we have such awful self esteem! That is all for my rant today! Have a good one!

Recently I've been reminded, multiple times, of an experience I had as a young woman in spiritual warfare. Until this experience, I had a biblical understanding of hell and the devil. After this experience I had an all new view of it. One I'll never forget. In my late teens/early twenties I volunteered at an inner city church with the youth group. One night after our gathering the youth leader and I were sitting out in her car talking. While we were talking a couple of guys walked past the car. One of the men glanced over at the car and his eyes were pure white. He had no pupils or anything, and in that instant there was a war. There was a war between worlds between our eyes and his, between his body and mine, between his god and my God. It felt as though I was suffocating. Tears came to my eyes. After he passed by and the battle going on ceased we prayed. We prayed hard. We called to God and He came down and gave us peace because no matter how difficult the battle is, or

Unfortunately I know a lot of people who say that they are Christians but are also racists. They claim Christ, but do not have love for their fellow humans that are different than they are. I wonder how they would feel if they saw Jesus face to face, considering he wasn't white. (The thought of their faces when/if they see Him makes me giggle.) It's funny to me that people will boast of their faith and the truth of the Bible, but fail to really SEE what it says. It says that Christ was born in Bethlehem, which is in the Middle East. Middle Eastern people have dark skin. I have a friend that is from Bangladesh and I imagine Jesus looked quite similar to him. Another thing Racist Christians fail to SEE in the Bible is that Christ called us to LOVE. He didn't say just love those that are like you. In fact he said just the opposite. He told us to love everyone and to go into the world so that we could reach everyone for Him and His glory. Christ himself talked to and loved