Letter 1 – April 23, 2010
Letters to my sisters,

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth……
Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good.

1Sam 3:12b :when I begin, I will also make an end.

Psalm 139:13-17 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.
15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.
17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

1 Th 5:23-24 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

Phil 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

From conception, God has been at work in our lives. Actually, from the beginning of the earth.
Jer 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
And we know…..if God knew Jeremiah before he was formed (conceived) in the belly….He knew us.

Jeremiah has another neat promise for us.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

No matter what others have done to us….no matter what has happened in our lives….God started everything good. We were created good. God, in His mighty power and knowledge, chose for us to be conceived, carried to fullness of time, and born into this time, into the family we were in.

There is a scene in one of our favorite movies, The Princess Bride, where everything has gone wrong….and a very distraught Inigo was drowning his sorrows in a bottle, and saying:
Inigo: I am waiting for you, Vizzini. You told me to go back
to the beginning. So I have. This is where I am, and
this is where I will stay. I will not be moved.
(The prince gave orders)
Inigo: So did Vizzini. When the job went wrong he went back
to the beginning. Well, this is where we got the
job, so it’s the beginning. And I am staying till
Vizzini come.
Things went wrong in our lives….causing various stages of trauma and woundedness. It messed up our concept of our beginning.

So, the job when wrong, lets go back to the beginning.
In my beginning, God created me, fearfully and wonderfully, marvelous are His works.
Can you say that God created you?,

and called you good as He did in Genesis 1?

And that He began a good work in you as in Phil 1:6?

And can you put your trust in Him to complete that work, starting today?

Read Psalm 37 and 139……pull out promises for you, and write them down on 3×5 cards, and carry them with you.

And may our God of all comfort, stir new life into your hearts, and make you to know that you are a chosen princess, daughter of King Jehovah, through the blood of His son, Jesus Christ.

In His hands, and under His wings,
~Christi

Bible verses from:
http://www.blueletterbible.org/index.cfm
Princess Bride quotes from: http://fringe.davesource.com/Fringe/Entertainment/Scripts/The_Princess_Bride.html

(c)2010 M.C.Wildman