From the Heart by B.Demaere

  If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.  Set you minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.  For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.  When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3:1-4) Not that I should even ask if you Christians are of the earth or of heaven?   Here Paul makes it very clear that our thoughts should be focused on heaven where Christ is with God our heavenly Father in a place of authority.   Does this mean then that if our minds and hearts are not geared toward heaven we would be robbed of that authority?   Most assuredly, if your minds are on earthly things, you become weak in every way and your life is not worth being called a ‘Christian life’.   You are then living the same as the world. It is easy to get caught up in the things of the world without a vision of heaven but look!   Do

God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar.  Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential.  He's placed in us is not egotistical.  He designed us to be tremendously productive and "to mount up with wings like an eagle," realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential.                                                     Carol Kent (Taken from trvst.world) Sometime ago, it was pointed out to me that there are two kinds of people in this world… Pecking chickens and Soaring eagles.   That was a shock to my system but then I began to think about it and observed. The differences spreads throughout their entire life.   A chicken and an eagle. The pecking chickens are those that want everything so and so and are quite confined to one way of thinking.   They of course never see beyond their coop and are happy with the little that they have. Unbeknownst to the chickens and that is very sad, they have the potential to become eagles if they choos