Today a very special person in my life was born 26 years ago. Her name is Sarah Dawn Niglio-NOW Warner!!!
Sarah is truly my best friend. From the moment I met her, she was always about other people. She always put herself last in order to help people. She always made time to sit and listen again and again to all my reasons why Steve and I had to get married even though I had just met him:). She always had joy even in the hardest of situations. She always chose to be that peacemaker, when others chose to fight. She was always there when I needed a shoulder to cry on or when I had something to praise God about. She would praise God with me. Through ever victory, failure, joy, tear, Sarah was there and still is. She is a person who God used and still uses to encourage me in the battle. She is someone who prays and seeks God and lives out what she learns.
Every time I see Sarah (which needs to be more often:)) I see Christ. Someone willing to lay down their life for a friend. Someone who is teachable and allowing herself to grow in God. I love you Sarah so much and thank you for being such a loyal friend. Thank you for being a great listener, someone who challenges me to be more like Jesus, someone totally devoted to the call.
LOVE YOU!!! Have an awesome birthday

Wimping out in tough times doesn't sound like a person that has their faith built upon Christ, but rather upon themselves. So often I do that. When times get hard, I start to develop the "poor me" syndrome and for a moment, just stop. THAT IS SO STUPID! The enemy loves to get our focus back onto ourselves and paralyze us so that God can't use us. Whether our trial is because of our own doing or not, we still are called to cling to the father and have joy and persevere. Wow. How easily are you swayed by the waves of life? Do you stand firm on the truth, or are you tossed to and fro until there is nothing left in you that wants to pursue God or His word?
God is challenging me with this. I need to choose to live in the house built upon His foundation, the rock. I need to stop relying on myself when bad things happen. God never said we wouldn't have trials, He said to take heart because He not us has overcome the world.
We need to stop being such an easy target for destruction. God said in His word that we are more than conquerors in Him. He says in Psalms that He trains our hands for battle. Yes, we live everyday in the battle, but lets learn to really LIVE and not stop fighting when the arrow flies at our head or when the wind comes to blow us over. Let us persevere (James 1:1-4).
Live as a warrior, think as a warrior!!!