This week I have been challenged heaps by a good friend of mine. Her messages have been so encouraging and though pervoking so I thought I would share those thoughts with you.. and if you feel like answering the questions she asked me as well, either out loud--our at least genuinly think through the answer of these...please do. It is important and so vital for life!
Enjoy the following beautiful promises that follow:

Colossians 3

He Is Your Life

1-2 So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with
Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides.
Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things
right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on
around Christ—that's where the action is. See things from his
perspective.
3-4Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life—even
though invisible to spectators—is with Christ in God. He is your life.
When Christ (your real life, remember) shows up again on this earth,
you'll show up, too—the real you, the glorious you. Meanwhile, be
content with obscurity, like Christ.

5-8And that means killing off everything connected with that way of
death: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel
like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your
fancy. That's a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God.
It's because of this kind of thing that God is about to explode in
anger. It wasn't long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not
knowing any better. But you know better now, so make sure it's all
gone for good: bad temper, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty
talk.

9-11Don't lie to one another. You're done with that old life. It's
like a filthy set of ill-fitting clothes you've stripped off and put
in the fire. Now you're dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your
new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it.
All the old fashions are now obsolete. Words like Jewish and
non-Jewish, religious and irreligious, insider and outsider,
uncivilized and uncouth, slave and free, mean nothing. From now on
everyone is defined by Christ, everyone is included in Christ.

12-14So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the
wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet
strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place,
quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the
Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love.
It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.

15-17Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in
step with each other. None of this going off and doing your own thing.
And cultivate thankfulness. Let the Word of Christ—the Message—have
the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in your lives. Instruct
and direct one another using good common sense. And sing, sing your
hearts out to God! Let every detail in your lives—words, actions,
whatever—be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the
Father every step of the way.

QUESTION

1. What do you honestly think about yourself?

2. Do you think you are beautiful?

-a beautiful feather.