Blessed Aroma

This blog received an award on Sunday, February 1.

It was called the Blessed Aroma award and given to 100 Christian women blog writers for the year 2008. My blog was in the category called

Cup Overfloweth Blog: "This is a woman who is following hard after Him. Her words, her heart and her passion for her Savior is evident with every click of the mouse. She inspires you to have a closer relationship with Him."

It came as another pleasant surprise.

I never even knew there was such a thing. And this award speaks such a depth of encouragement to my heart.


There was a time in my life when I would literally feel an evil grip around my neck.

That was the season when God my heavenly Father revealed Himself to me as the Lord of the Breakthrough. He spoke to me through a series of what I call "divine incidents" and gently led me out of the valley of shadow of death. After a fire broke out at the school where I was the principal at the time, I heard Him say to me, "I will give you brand new power lines in your life."

God broke the grip of fear that was trying to pin me down, lie to me about my future, and wanting to remove me from the path of my God given destiny.

He led me through a journey I never thought possible, a journey toward a higher level, closer and closer to His heart.

He did begin giving me new powerlines, a new kind of spiritual authority over my life.

One thing that becomes clearer to me as I walk on this journey is that God will not impose Himself, His standards on anyone. We have to desire it, have a hunger for it, and actively search for it.

As Craig Hill says, "We have to pursue Him with intensity."

It was in this journey that I began to really experience the sense of good things coming my way. The enemy wants to fill our hearts with a sense of dread and foreboding, worry about the future, anxiety over the circumstances of our lives.

But God is not only the Creator, He is also the Re-creator. Nothing is beyond His reach.

And when God revealed Himself to me as the Lord of the Breakthrough, I experienced a tremendous sense of freedom.

This powerful verse, one of my all-time favorites, sums it up:

...God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did..." Romans 4:17

This year is another such year for me. I do sense many new opportunities, new beginnings, being led to a higher calling, a wider sphere of freedom.

I have often written about my husband's death in my recent posts. I do so with a sense of life arising out of the cruelty and violence of an enemy called Death ...

Jesus conquered the grave... and rose in power... and ascended to heaven in victory!

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The blog award is just another indicator of many more good things coming my way this year!

To all my blogging friends who made this award possible, and to all my readers, I want to say, "Thank You." As you will read in my profile, it's not about me, it's about my God and King. I humbly accept the award, but to God alone be the glory, for the things He has done in my life.

May my words continue to give off that pleasing aroma, a fragrance that will touch many other lives and lead them to the throne of King Jesus.

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I want to dedicate this award to a blogging friend named Beautiful Grace. She was one friend who kept me company during my last few months in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She has a special place in my heart. She is one woman who truly exudes grace and humility. She doesn't care for the praises of men. We have never met, but I have come to truly feel a deep love for her.

Beautiful Grace, you have touched my heart, more than you'll ever know.