Cassie L. Wilson

Learning to be the light

Feeling weak? Find your strength in the Lord.

Hey, friend.  Welcome back to the new and improved site!  Please bear with me as I continue to figure out the new features.  Blogging is hard, y’all.  Thank goodness I can find strength in the Lord to continue on!  🙂

So, anyway.  If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you know I like to do a thing I call #FavoriteFriday.   Yep, you guessed it.  I like to post scripture that’s had an impact on me on Fridays.  Sometimes, the scriptures I post on those days are in the Top All Time Favorite category.  Other times, it’ll be a scripture I read during the week’s Bible reading that just really stuck out to me and made me think.  (Shameless plug here, be sure to follow me on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to catch my #FavoriteFriday!)

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25 lessons in 25 years

Oh, boy.  You know how they say that once you graduate high school, everything feels like it was just yesterday? (Which, y’all, is sooo many lessons in and of itself.)

I had a teacher in high school that used to tell me that pretty regularly.  I’ll be honest here, I’d just laugh at him and say, “Sure thing,” not really wanting to believe that time passes quickly.  And he would just smile, sit back in his chair with his hands folded and say, “You’ll see.”

I was in my teeny-bopper years, probably around fifteen or so, when my teacher made it a point to teach me and my classmates that lesson.

And.  It.  Feels.  Like.  It.  Was.  Just.  Yesterday. 

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Another Year in the Books

Today, friend, I turn twenty-five.  The ol’ quarter of a century.  Halfway to fifty.  And let me tell you, it really is hard to believe it has been ten years or more since my teacher pointed out that time passes faster than you think it does.  I’ve spent the last few years with eyes wide in horror realizing that my teacher was right.  Lesson=learned. 

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13 Verses to Get You Through a Tough Week

Ugh.  It’s been a tough week, y’all.

That’s the only word I can use to describe my week.  Just.  Ugh.

You know the saying, “when it rains, it pours”?  Pretty sure it’s been monsoon-ing over in my world.

And you also know that popular phrase the weathermen like to use to encourage us, the viewers, not to pass over a flooded road?  You know, “turn around, don’t drown?”

Nope, driving the struggle bus straight through it.

Friend, no need to worry about me.  It’s just been one of those weeks where everything that could be an issue has decided to be one.  I’m sure you’ve had a week like that, too.  They’re pretty common, actually.  And I’m positive that there are eight or nine funny gifs I could put right here to hilariously describe my week.  Gifs seem to make everything better.  Even the irritating days.

Do you know what’s even better than a funny gif, though?

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Fiery Darts and the Armor of God

So, as kid and someone either preached on the armor of God or taught a lesson on it, I thought they were referring to actual armor.

You know, the silver armor you’d picture a Knight in Shining Armor wearing if he were to ride up on a white horse and save the day?

Yeah, I still picture that when I think about the armor of God.  Doesn’t help much that Mom did a lesson with her Sunday school kids where they learned what each piece of the armor of God means and represents.  Anddd they made their own set of armor.

Yep, the breastplate of righteousness was a foil turkey platter. Imagination, y’all, it’s a wonderful thing.  🙂

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Shine Bright: Be a Trick Candle

A while ago, I wrote a post on letting our light shine.  If we are saved by the Blood of Jesus, we are all given a light to shine for Him.  A light we should be shining in order to guide others to the Cross.  Shine bright, friend, shine bright.

A couple Sunday’s ago during revival at Buckeye Hollow Church (side note:  If you missed revival, boy, oh, boy, did you miss a good meeting!), the message being preached was from John 13 and described how Judas Iscariot chose the path of the betrayer instead of the path of the Beloved.

He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.  John 13:30

Does anyone else notice anything peculiar about this particular scripture?  Sure, it tells us that Judas wasted no time at all betraying the Master and setting the plan of Jesus’s betrayal in motion.  And it also tells us it was night time in the natural world, too.

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