Masters Touch

04/20/2023

Hey friends! Excited to share with you that I will be available for facial treatments. You can schedule online at https://hwcmorristown.janeapp.com/ hope to see you soon! Text me with any questions..8657488968

02/02/2023

Having fun teaching and learning too!!!

12/04/2022

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We gathered again! Time to slow down by being still & loved. So fun! She surprised her family with facials. Who can you gather?

11/26/2022

First things first..love Jesus!

I grew up in a very pragmatic household. Questions around the dinner table lovingly ranged from “What did you learn today?” to “What do you have left on your to-do list?”

This was a good way to be raised. It meant that I grew up thinking and doing, 2 modes of activity that are oft woefully neglected in the modern American culture in which I now find my adult self. I’m grateful for it, as it has allowed me to lead a team of young people to significant personal growth + professional excellence.

However, I have been musing over this in the last few weeks, realizing I perhaps placed ‘productive’ a little high on the list of virtues God wants me to pursue. Some days, I feel like a failure if I haven’t done enough things…even if I haven’t done anything wrong or simply spent ‘too much time’ talking to other people.

God delights in using us for His glory, but He primarily asks us to do so through very specific ways.

First & foremost, “love the Lord your God” is at the top of the list + in a classically Biblical sense, succeeds in illuminating the rest of the list very clearly. For, if we truly love God, a doing love, an active love, then we will naturally fall into loving our neighbor, who is made in His image. We love Him, so we seek justice for wrongs + wish mercy upon the remorseful. In Him, we find our contentment + joy, in putting our hearts in a posture of faith, in promoting hope, and acts of service and love. If all we are is merely useful, we miss the point.

Paul makes this plain in his letter to the Philippians: “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned & received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you” (Phil. 4:8–9).

Paul doesn’t put ‘productive’ on his list. I don’t know about you, but the next time my to-do list has a pitiful number of items crossed-off–when I feel like I haven’t been productive enough–I will endeavor to measure myself to His standards instead of mine.

11/20/2022

Let’s Gather!

11/20/2022

"You are enough."

Notice anything missing from this statement?

I'll give you a hint-- it's the other half of it. It should read, "You are enough in Christ alone."

There’s a reason this "you are enough" message is so easily preached as a positive mantra. Simply put, it makes us feel good. Capable. Worthy.

If we’re honest, we know that we are not enough without Christ but would very much appreciate being told otherwise. The nature of our flesh wants to hear what feels good, but the truth is it does not--it cannot--fill our emptiness. If you and I were to sit down over coffee and center our conversation around telling one other just how enough we are, we would be doing each other a terrible disservice. Because it's not more of ourselves that we need; it's more of God and God alone.

Without Christ, we are not enough. What we deem adequacy is rarely even that. (Rev. 3:17) We are not smart enough, brave enough, or faithful enough, and we all fail to forgive as we should. Yet, our arrogance often deludes us into believing that we are okay, just as we are. Pride dresses itself in pious robes and says, “Oh, we’re not the best, to be sure, but we’re getting by just fine.”

Sister, ‘just fine’ is a lie that will corrupt the soul faster than a more flattering fiction. Good news: the Bible doesn’t say we are fine. The miracle of God’s relationship with mankind is held in the truth that He has chosen us to be heirs with his Son, Jesus Christ, anyway. He has cleansed our sins and dressed us in white, making us better than ‘fine.' Praise be to God!

Paul powerfully reminds us, "For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus” (Rom. 3:21–26).

Say it with me: We are enough because of Christ alone.

Praise God!

11/12/2022

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