TREASURE HUNTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many years ago I heard a simple message from Victoria Osteen about transforming everything in your heart to a treasure. She talked how we treasure the good experiences and we remember them with nostalgia. On the other hand we want to forget the bad experiences and never tried to find something good out of it. We tend to hide them deep inside our hearts and only used them to hurt ourselves over and over again. Bad experiences scar us and we tend to hide them away without looking at the other side of the experience. BELIEVE it or NOT, bad experiences do have something that can be treasured and is the fact of experiencing something and learning from it. It is like looking at the other side of the coin.

I recall hearing so many stories of challenges and difficult times in our lives during our last CAFELATE and how we have survived it and now are stories of inspiration to ourselves and others. It is in that ultimate moment that we decide to allow those bad experiences to empower us, help others and keep us close to God in which they turn to be TREASURE in our hearts.

I recall my first few years of marriage in which I found myself not having the marriage I dreamed of and where I found myself having more differences than similarities with my husband. Where I found that I need to be strong and take control of my marriage and my situation. It was the hardest years of my life because I was also becoming a mother and juggling two new stages in my life was very difficult. There were times when I was ready to give up in my marriage. It has not been an easy road maybe because I am not an easy person to get along with………………..LOL……….. Without the support of my family, church and friends it would have been more difficult to understand and bear. God gave me and continues to give me the strength to make it through all the stages in my life. Maybe everything is not the way I probably expected it would be but through it all the lessons I have learned have become a TREASURE in my heart. Ask me in a few years how I made through my kids teenage years……………..That is another story……..LOL.

TREASURE is anything that you hold in high regards and/or treat as precious. Once you decided that an experience, no matter how difficult it may seem, will be cherished, it will become a TREASURE of surpassable value.

I have a co-worker who has gone through a great deal of very difficult experiences from a sick child to infidelity in her marriage and all at the same time. She did not know how tomorrow will look for her but she decided to hang on to God and allow him to steer her life. It was very difficult for her to speak about her experiences with others but now she even amazes herself how she is using her experiences as way of inspiration to others. She has turned these experiences in to her very own TREASURE and as the years go by she will look and admire what she has gained.

Proverbs 4:23 says:
Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.

I would like for you to respond to this BLOG with a specific situation and/or experience that you felt you have turned into a TREASURE. Better yet, for those who have not had that opportunity, to share an experience in your life (you don’t have to give all the details) in which is still being a scar in your heart and you will like to turn into a TREASURE. After you shared an experience and you will like to do another posting with encouraging words to someone else’s posting feel free to do so.



Let’s go TREASURE HUNTING!