Who is our ultimate pillar?

What is a pillar? Dictionary.com says a pillar is any upright, supporting part; post or a person who is a chief supporter of a society, state, institution, etc.

When I think of a pillar, I picture a tall structure that is holding something up. This is the type of person that I want to be. I want to help hold others up, if that is by giving an encouraging word, showing a good example, loving on them, or praying for them.

My question to you is this, who is our ultimate pillar? The answer, Jesus Christ, Savior of the World. This man was our sacrifice so that we could have forgiveness for our sins. He will always love us, take care of us, and petition on our behalf in front of the Father. Jesus took on a huge burden by fulfilling his calling with conquering the cross. He takes away all of our burdens so we don't have to. I am so thankful for this Savior for all he has done for me.

I truly believe that the Lord is making us into pillars so that we can be His example to this world. One of my favorite scriptures in the bible comes from the book of Philippians 2:5 - Have an attitude that is the same as Christ Jesus. This verse is a prayer on my own life that I try to live by all the time. By living like this example, we can become pillars for each other, but we need to understand that no matter what, Jesus is our ultimate pillar.

A calling that the Lord has placed on my life is to be a pillar for others. I hope people understand that they can come to me with anything. I don't mind if people call me on the phone in the early hours of the morning to talk. All I want to do is be a good listener and offer any encouragement that I can give. Even though this is a desire that God has placed on my heart, I believe that each person who is a pillar, has pillars to help hold them up. All of my friends are my pillars. I know that each and everyone of them would be there for me in a heartbeat if and when I need them. Each friend is a different pillar, meaning that they hold me up in unique ways.

I do want to mention two of my pillars that have become my closest friends within the past couple of months. These two are both outgoing and that makes it easier to talk with them. Every time I see them, they brighten and make my day. They make me laugh and have brought out the best in me. They understand my personality and like me for who I am. With there friendship, they are challenging and helping me grow in my relationship with Christ. I know that they will always keep me in there prayers, be there for me whenever I need them and I can talk with them about anything. I value both of there friendships and thank the Lord for bring us together as part of the Body of Christ, but also as friends. I don't know what I would do without them.

Through them, I have learned how to be a pillar, but not the ultimate pillar that is Christ. It is that reason that I love to pray for my friends and family and give them up to the Lord. Just a reminder, Jesus Christ is our ultimate pillar.

T~Money

Things I am Thankful For

As we just celebrated Thanksgiving, I would like to share with you things that I am thankful for:

1) I am thankful for my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for loving me, molding me, and dying on the cross for my sins. I will forever be grateful for all you have done in my life. You truly are forever faithful in my life and look after me all the time. I love you so much Abba Father.

2) I am thankful for my family, my dad, mom, brothers, sister-in-law, nieces, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and so many more. This is both my biological and spiritual family. Each member of my family has a special place in my life because they have encouraged me, inspired me and helped me be all that I can be.

3) I am thankful for all of my friends. You are all truly a blessings in my life no matter how many times I have screwed up. Thanks for all the good times and memories.

4) I am thankful for my job and for the Lord providing all of my financial needs.

These are just a few of the many things that I am thankful for. I pray that your Thanksgiving was filled with lots of love, laughter and joy. I encourage all of you to remember all that we are thankful for during this time of year. Many blessings to you all.

T~Money

Where has Trinity been?

Hopefully I didn't scare all of my faithful readers, for being away so long. For that, I am truly sorry, so without further due, here is an update.

Work is going really well. I feel so blessed to first off have my job, but thankful to work for a company that trusts in the Lord and makes Christ the center of the business. Right now is our slow season, which I am thankful for because I can get caught up on some projects that needed to be caught up on. Overall, I love my job and can't believe that it has been just over a year since I first started. Wow, the time sure have flown by. I am looking forward to next year and how we can serve God even more through the company.

This fall the bible studies have started up, so I took on the third installment of Genesis, Titus and more learning in Youth Group. All the studies have been going so well and I just love how my relationship with the Lord has grown so much. I can't wait for what the Lord has in store and also for his presence and new revelations that he wants to reveal to me. It is going to be totally awesome and I am so excited.

The next update will be on my car accident that happened at the end of July. I am still not 100% to when I was before the accident. I am still in Physical Therapy twice a week to help loosen up my muscles. Also I am going to a Chiropractor to help move apart some of my vertebrae in my neck. Both have help me tremendously throughout the last two weeks. I am now showing signs of improvement so thank you Jesus for that.

The last thing that I will update on with this post is that college basketball is here and now. Yeah!!!!!! I am so excited. I will keep you post on how both the Gonzaga Men and Women's basketball teams are doing this year. First off I will start with the men's team. There are a lot of new faces which makes for an inexperience team that is playing really well. They gave Michigan State the #2 team in the nation a run for there money, didn't win, but played great basketball. They did just win the Maui Invitational over Thanksgiving. This season for them is going to be amazing and I am so grateful to be apart of it. The women's team is going to have an excited year to. They return almost every player. There season opener will go down in history as one of the best openers ever. It was like an NCAA Tourament game. Overall both teams should do great things this season and I look forward to being apart of all the drama and action.

There you have it. A lot of things have been going on and now that the holidays are upon us, things will only get busier. Well I pray the Lord's blessings on you all as you grow closer to him each and every day. I promise it will not be so long between posts. So until next time, enjoy this holiday season.

T~Money