Today when I was journaling I began to feel overtaken by gratefulness for many things. I began to look back at my life and reflect on just how many prayers God has answered. I began to see right where I was and had to stop and thank God for the blessings I was sitting in. I began to see things even deeper. I thanked God for saving my soul, for reaching me at one of my darkest times and offering me his salvation. I realized that he has broken so many generational curses from my life and canceled them from affecting my children and generations to come. I realized that he chose me and pulled me out of a dark hole that many generations before me in my family line had fallen into, from substance abuse, adultery, witchcraft, sexual immorality, and just straight up darkness. I could see those things so clearly as I looked back into the history of my family line, but as I glanced forward all I could see was the light of Jesus. I can see that Jesus has been making all things new for me and my family. I was just filled with gratitude for the power of God and what he can do! And I felt him whisper, “you are paving the way!” I asked what he meant and I felt him unravel it and realized this message wasn’t just for me, but for all of you! We are paving the way. Making a new way. Cleaning out the brush, the thorns, cleaning up the dirt. Removing the darkness, breaking the generational curses, creating a new atmosphere of peace, love and righteousness for our life and the life and health of our own family as we choose to follow Jesus. We are paving a way for our kids to follow. We go before them as we follow Jesus and they are walking right behind us on a new path of righteousness to walk towards the King, our Savior Jesus Christ! This new path isn’t always easy, there are hard decisions we make, there are sacrifices made, there are things we surrender and give up but as we do these hard things, it paves the way for our children who follow and it is always worth it!

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