Life's Basic Training

Home is like a training camp. 

It is your testing ground.

Here’s where all growth has its start,

Because of those you are around.

All is tailored just for you —

Events and interactions,

So you can live the bigger life

With kindness and compassion.

If we can’t live in harmony

With our own flesh and blood,

We’d only fool ourselves to think

Strangers we can love.

If we don’t share in basic things,

We’ll pass the poor right by.

Lord, form the heart of Christ in us

So we won’t fail next time!

We’d be a sorry tale

And far from saintly matter

If God did not equip us 

So we’re more than just an actor.

-- Charity Lacroix

Scripture Quotations: 

"And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way:bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God..." (Col 1:10)

"We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing." (2 Thes 1:3)

Related Poems:
The Meaning of Life

Related articles:
Loving Deeply
Faithful in the Little Things
God's Amazing Plan for Your Life
The Day of Small Things
God's Way to Greatness
The Woes of Christ

Attribution notice: Scriptures taken from The Holy Bible, NIV, copyright Zondervan.

Author's note: The poems in this blog were written by my children, ages thirteen through nineteen . The Why This Blog post explains how the Lord inspired these poems in answer to a prayer during illness.  I also recommend visiting my children's blog, A Brush with Life, where you will also find beautiful art they have drawn for the glory of God. You can access my complete blog directory at "Writing for the Master. Now I'd like to ask a very important question.

Do You Want to Know Jesus?
“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15).  He preached that we must repent and believe.

Please see my explanation of this in my post called "Do You Want to Know Jesus?"
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Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International. He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org. 

Greater Things Await

If you will give your all to Me, 

You’ve yet to see My best for you!

I have so much laid up in store—

Things you never dreamed or knew.

You would be amazed to see

What you missed out on all that time.

I guarantee you glorious wonders

That no where else a man can find.

I long to give you so much more

That you did not expect from Me.

I’m a Father, eager, yearning

To bring you pleasures heavenly.

Know that greater things await;

You’ve yet to taste what fullness is.

Don’t put it off or turn it down.

It’s something you don’t want to miss!

Fullness means My nearest Presence.

Fullness means My face to see.

It means to have My joy complete

And know a fellowship so sweet. 

Don’t be content with where you stand.

Move past your shallow Christian life.

You’ve tasted just a bit of heaven,

But come with Me to greater heights!

-- Charity Lacroix

Scripture Quotations:

"...so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." (Eph 3:17-19)

"...to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ." (Eph 4:12-13)

"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." (Jas 1:17)

Related poems:
You Fill Me Up
So Much More
Overflowing Blessings

Related Articles:
Fullness
Filled Up to All the Fullness of God
God's Way to Greatness
God's Sovereign Plans and Purposes
God's Amazing Plan for Your Life

Attribution notice: Scriptures taken from The Holy Bible, NIV, copyright Zondervan.

Author's note: The poems in this blog were written by my children, ages thirteen through nineteen. The Why This Blog post explains how the Lord inspired these poems in answer to a prayer during illness.  I also recommend visiting my children's blog, A Brush with Life, where you will also find beautiful art they have drawn for the glory of God. You can access my complete blog directory at "Writing for the Master. Now I'd like to ask a very important question.

Do You Want to Know Jesus?
“Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.’” (Mar 1:14b-15).  He preached that we must repent and believe.

Please see my explanation of this in my post called "Do You Want to Know Jesus?"
                         _________________________________________________

Len Lacroix is the founder of Doulos Missions International. He was based in Eastern Europe for four years, making disciples, as well as helping leaders to be more effective at making disciples who multiply, developing leaders who multiply, with the ultimate goal of planting churches that multiply. His ministry is now based in the United States with the same goal of helping fulfill the Great Commission. www.dmiworld.org.