By Misty Strieff Prine This is probably one of the most profound statements I’ve read in a long time. Think about it for a second. Here you have a person dangling a fishing line. (The Instigator) This person usually has no place in the argument to begin with and just wants to stir things up. At the end of his fishing line is a lure. (The Culprit) It gets yanked back and forth and jumps up and down, all at the hand of the fisherman. Think of that lure as the person that spews

By Misty Strieff Prine “I don’t think outside of the box; I think of what I can do WITH the box.” – Unknown I have always been the type of person that looks for ways to do the most good with what the good Lord gave me verses thinking too far outside of the box that it overcomplicates and overwhelms me, ultimately making me not want to do it. We so often sell ourselves short on what we can achieve. We may not think we have much but, rest assured, God made us uniquely us and pe

By  Misty Strieff Prine How many times do we pray and pray for something and then, in God's time, we receive the answer that we've been praying for...but then something happens. We find ourselves not praying like we once did because we longed so much for that which He answered that we lost sight of the fact that prayer is something that we are supposed to do every day, not just when we need something or when our heart desires something. We must remember that prayer is a privi

By Misty Strieff Prine “May I live like the Lotus at ease in the muddy water.” – Unknown.             I have heard of a lotus flower but never knew the meaning...until I researched it today...and I thought it was fitting for this week’s message. A lotus flower is a stunningly beautiful flower that lives amid murky pond waters. Its beauty radiates to those who see it as it sits among the muddy, still pond water. It symbolizes three very important things: purity, beauty and reb

By Misty Strieff Prine “Should you ever find yourself the victim of other people’s bitterness, jealousy, lies and insecurities…don’t be mad. Remember things could be worse: You could be them.” Unknown. Have you ever found yourself saying, "I just can't understand why people treat people the way they do" and then you get the response "Well, not everyone was raised like you." It's such a sad situation to know that so many people have faced such hard lives. You are not born with

By Misty Strieff Prine “There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world – because you realize there’s so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.” – Unknown             Often, we get hung up on the past, too much drama, bad days, bad decisions and even the opinions of others around us, that might not be our own but consume us as if they were. We get stuck on a page that starts to repeat like a broken record. We repeat what we

By Misty Strieff Prine “May I never forget on my best day that I still need God as desperately as I did on my worst day.” – May ALL of us have this mindset!!                  This is something that I pray not one single one of us ever loses sight of. We need God JUST as much on our good days as we do on our bad ones. Why? Because we are nor will we EVER be exempt from our need for grace. No matter what good place or bad place we are in our lives, we need God every second of e

By Misty Strieff Prine                   “Today you could be standing next to someone who is trying their best not to fall apart. So, whatever you do today, do it with kindness in your heart.” – Unknown                 We all must remember that each and every one of us has a story, a story that most people do not know. We need to remember that we don’t know what battles we’ve had to fight behind closed doors or the emotional toll it has taken on our lives. We are all out here

By Misty Strieff Prine “Thank You, God, for putting periods on sentences that I wasn’t strong enough to end.” – Unknown I’m so thankful for the sentences that God put a period at the end of when I was FAR from strong enough to put one there myself. God knows when we are not strong enough to find our way out of situations we often find ourselves in the middle of. His word tells us in 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, “And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is p