Devotional Gemstone

My Mission

My mission is to provide others direct access to all the resources that I've picked up along the way. I like to call them "gems" that I found along the seashore, peeking up through the sand, as the wave rolls across my feet. Gems that brought me out of dark moments and helped me to look ahead, move forward, even when I felt my knees were trembling too much to stand.

The purpose of this website is to share all that I've endured and grown  through in the hopes that it will help even just one person. If you're anything like me, you've spent countless hours surfing and searching the internet for answers. Asking family and friends for advice. A heavy cup of validation isn't purchased at the drive thru window when you're ordering your caramel macchiato upside down with an extra shot. How often have you asked yourself, "Am I losing my  mind? Is it me or something that I'm doing?"  

Let me share what my dear sister n' law tells me in the midst of my doubtful moments, "Stop! It's not you! This is much bigger than you!"  Wonderful and amazing people in my life that have done everything from pray for me, light a candle, support and best of all, climb into the mud with me. After all, that's exactly what we all need sometimes, someone willing to get mud on themselves because they are sticking with you throughout the process.

What's self doubt? Travel through the links provided in this website and collect your gems. I won't begin to say that what you find here is the end all, fix all, but it will help you in taking the steps forward.

Breathe! You can move through the abuse to the clearing that awaits you!!! 

Proverbs31.orgMinistry Daily Devotionals deliver to my email everyday. I often ask myself as I'm humbling myself before the Lord, "Did you inspire them to right this just for me, Father?!"

What Mud Puddles Can Teach Us About True Friends
ALICIA BRUXVOORT

"A true friend loves regardless of the situation, and a real brother exists to share the tough times” (Proverbs 17:17)

“Grace got hurt at recess today. She scraped her knee on the cement when she tripped on the kickball and fell in a puddle.”

“So you took her to the nurse?” I’d asked as I attempted to fill in the gaps.

“No,” Hannah replied with a humble shrug. “Grace’s leg hurt too bad to walk. But the fastest boy in second grade said he’d run and get the teacher for help. So I just sat with her until the teacher came.”

“In the mud puddle?” I’d retorted with an incredulous laugh.

“Yeah …” Hannah had replied with a quiet sigh. “I think she just needed a friend to be with her while she waited.”

[Alicia Bruxvoort]
October 7, 2016