On the Other Side

BLOCK HIM AND BE DONE.

Quit stalking his page.
Quit holding onto false hope.

We live in a day and age where it’s now the easiest that it’s ever been to get into contact with someone.

If he wanted to contact YOU … he would.

Friend, he wouldn’t have let you get away.

God removed him from your life.

You need to accept the protection and praise God for it!

Maybe he’s not a bad guy … but …

He’s just not right for YOU.

Pray for him.

Pray he finds the one.

Pray that he becomes the man that God desires him to be … the man that you saw the potential in him to be.

And be willing to accept that you’re not the one who gets to stand alongside him ‘when’ he is this man.

You need a man who is; not one who is becoming.
… Reread that and let it sink in …

While you’re expending all of your time and energy WASTING your thoughts on what might have been, you are ‘robbing’ yourself of what could be waiting right in front of you.

You’re wasting your life.

Our days are numbered.

We only get one shot.

Just one!

Friend, if you think you need a partner to make you whole, then you need to figure out what’s missing and needs healing in YOU.

The only “Him” that wholeness comes through is the One who has the power to make all of us healed and whole …

JESUS.

Only Jesus.

No human can fill those shoes; it’s unfair for you to expect them to.

You’ll only be forever left with the remnants of continual hurt, frustration, and uncertainty.

It always was and it always has been Jesus.

Maybe you’ve blocked the wrong One.

Jesus says, “Come to me…” in Matthew 11:28-30.

Blessings! 🩷

~ Tera Fraine

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I’ve been so overwhelmed within my spirit lately by the story of the Prodigal Son.
(Luke 15:11-32)

It’s picture-perfect love.

It’s God’s unconditional love for us, and how He expects us to love others.

It’s a “no-strings-attached” kind of love.

It’s not a “I told you so” kind of love.

It’s not a “You made your bed and now you’re gonna lie in it” kinda love.

It’s not a condescending kind of love.

It’s a “Welcome home, the slate is clean” kind of love.

It’s an embracing love.

It’s a come-as-you-are … however broken you may be love.

It’s a love that endures.

A love that binds.

A love that was bound to a cross by nail-stricken hands and feet.

It’s a self-sacrificial love.

It’s the kind of love that, despite all shame, sin, guilt, and flaws …

… all of your failures and all of your doubts …

… a love that throws a banquet in YOUR honor to welcome you home and celebrate you.

Why?

Because God says no matter what others say, no matter what others think, and no matter what others do …

YOU matter and you ARE worth celebrating.

Adjust your crown sweet friend. 👑
You have a celebration to attend! 💕

I love to put these on my front porch every year because they thrive so well.

They’re called “portulaca” and they are an annual.

Early this Spring, I noticed some little green sprouts that I thought were some of last year’s portulaca coming up.

Needless to say I was shocked after the Artic Winter we had here in Tennessee.

Aside from the cold, they aren’t meant to last from year-to-year.

I proceeded to scan the little green sprouts with my plant app which told me they were merely a “weed.”

Pulling weeds was the last thing on my agenda that day, and for the weeks to come.

Then one day, I noticed those tiny green sprouts had grown into bigger plants, much more recognizable.

Again, I got out my plant app, except, this time when I scanned them, the result shown was that they were in fact “portulaca.”

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Friend,

There are so many valuable lessons tucked away in the simplicity of these plants.

But the root that I choose to reach is this:

God knows who we are and what we will become.

While the world may see us as one thing, God sees us as what we will become after HE is done refining us.

We will all experience Artic Winters in life.

These are the times in our lives that God uses to grow us, shape us, and prune us into HIS likeness and image.

While on the other spectrum, Satan wants to knock us out … at the root, which is our soul, our very core.

For some of us, these times may be a bit more bitter than for others.

The enemy wants us to be an “annual” in our faith.

But friend, for those of us who dig our heels deep into Christ Jesus, we are overcomers.

We are the ones who sprout back to life after the harshness and bitterness of Winter.

The season that was meant to destroy us helps to define us and determine our destiny.

For when we come back, we grow and thrive in full bloom.

Winter is over, friend.

BLOOM.

Exactly where you are. 🌸 🌱 🌺

~ Tera Fraine

Accept the protection …

It is a blessing.

Accept the rejection …

It is not only a blessing, but, also protection.