(This post is based off an email I sent to my book discussion group a few weeks ago.) Do you ever get scriptures stuck in your head? Does God ever use a scripture or a passage of scripture to work on you, like you just keep ruminating on it, stuck thinking about it, gaining more …
Tag: trust
faith.
“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy," Philippians 1:2-4 I was looking through some old notes and found this from a few years ago… God has …
discovering a new Way
My human instinct in the “hard” situations of life is often to want to get out of it. Run away. Quit even. But I have learned that it is better to face the hard thing, to move through it, to keep going! I have discovered that when I rely on God to strengthen me and …
Seek and Find.
Between 2013, when my family and I moved to Tennessee, and the fall of 2016 a series of external circumstances, experiences, conversations, things that happened, caused me to seriously doubt. Doubt myself. Doubt others. Doubt life. Doubt God. But thankfully my response was to seek God. To dive into a search for Truth. Read God’s …
confrontation.
It is so hard not to defend yourself when you feel like you are being attacked. When someone tells you something you did wrong or something they think you did wrong, or how you acted mean, prideful, greedy, were rude, judgmental, irresponsible, or just selfish. It is hard not to want to react, to justify, …
continued thoughts on transformation.
It seems that sometimes as Christians we tend take in a lot of sermons and possibly lots of Bible studies. But. Are we being changed by the sermons we hear? Are we implementing the lessons learned in the studies we do? Are we going to church on Sundays just to check it off our to-do …
Entangled.
I recently ordered a new bathing suit, a bottom and a tankini top. As I was trying it on the other day, I felt entangled by the top. Even though I ordered my normal size, the Lycra was so tight and the inside well I’ll just say it was complicated. The whole experience of trying …
Guiding Scriptures
I love God’s Word. I love reading scripture and discovering new Truths in scripture. I love being encouraged by God’s Word and claiming it as my own. I do not like to say I have a favorite verse because so many of them have guided me at different times in my story. I cling to …
Now.
I have been thinking about the importance of"enjoying the now"! Enjoying, making the most of each day of life becausethere are no guarantees of tomorrow. I believe that we as a people havebeen living with a false sense of security in our own control over things andlast year heightened everyone's awareness that we actually don't havecontrol …
seeking and discovering a better WAY 