A Thought for Today

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

-Hellen Keller

We live in a society that is always telling us that we aren't good enough.

We are never pretty enough, thin enough, or smart enough;

We need this new product to provide happinesss, and we need to eat a McDonalds cheeseburger to feel fully satisfied.

We are constantly comparing ourselves to everyone around us.

     So, since we live in a world that is so eager to bring us down, I just wanted to encourage you and let you know that you are created perfectly.


Psalm 139:13-16 says:

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me were written in your book

before one of them came to be.

     Not only is the creator of the universe crazy about you, but you are wonderfully made.

I hope you all had a splendid Monday,

Michelle Analyn

Unintentional Deception

Some things about me that might need to be cleared up:
I know that the title of this blog is "Sailing On", and my last post was titled the "Waters of Satisfaction Scattered." However, I hope that I am not misleading you to believe that I enjoy water.
Sure, I love showers and the occasional jump in the jacuzzi is pretty nice. But oceans and swimming and boats just aren't for me.


There is something absolutely beautiful about water, but I don't mind enjoying it from a distance.


Hope you are all having a magnificent Sunday afternoon!
Michelle Analyn

The Waters of Satisfaction Scattered

    What has been like water from the well of Bethlehem to you recently – love, friendship, spiritual blessing? Then at the peril of your soul, you take it to satisfy yourself. If you do, you cannot pour it out before the Lord. You can never sanctify to God that with which you long to satisfy yourself. If you satisfy yourself with a blessing from God, it will corrupt you; you must sacrifice it, pour it out, do with it what common sense says is an absurd waste.

    How am I to pour out unto the Lord natural love or spiritual blessing? In one way only – in the determination of my mind. There are certain acts of other people which one could never accept if one did not know God, because it is not within human power to repay them. But immediately I say – This is too great and worthy for me, it is not meant for a human being at all, I must pour it out unto the Lord, then these things pour out in rivers of living water all around. Until I do pour these things out before the Lord, they endanger those I love as well as myself because they will turn to lust. We can be lustful in things which are not sordid and vile. Love has to get to its transfiguration point of being poured out unto the Lord.

    If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you clutched it for yourself; whereas if you had poured it out unto the Lord, you would have been the sweetest person out of heaven. If you are always taking blessings to yourself and never learn to pour out anything unto the Lord, other people do not get their horizon enlarged through you.

My Utmost for His Highest; Oswald Chambers

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     First posts always seem to be the most difficult! So I've decided to break the ice by putting up one of my favorite devotions from Oswald Chambers - this is the devotion that really shook me a few months ago.

     After becoming "bitter and sour", I had come to the realization that only God can satisfy. And another big 'aha moment' was in the sentence that states, "Yes, we can be lustful in things that are not sordid and vile." Even a thing as beautiful as natural love can become an object of lust!

     Anywho. I'm not sure of what kind of adventures this blog will entail. At first I was going to devote this blog solely to fashion (ha. ha.); but seeing as this is my first post, who knows what will come about.

Thanks for reading this! (or skimming) - You are officially getting a sneak peak into the mind of:

Michelle Analyn

P.S. I know that everyone goes to blogs to look at pictures. so here is one just for you. :)

Capri Sun + Hume Lake + my love next to me = Bliss