Sometimes the pain in this world leaves my heart heavy. Hope seems lost in the flames of house fires, hard to find for the friends that lost their job and face homelessness at the time of year when home means the most, hidden from friends who discover the sex of the heart beating in the…
Category Archives: beliefs
31 Days to a Clean Heart
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and He will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord…
The Monster
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can’t separate them. They’re wedded. ~Henry Miller I remember well the days that perfectionism consumed my life. I suppose I came by the desire quite naturally. A father who demanded more than the best. Raised by grandparents whose…
It is all good
Non-eucharisteo, ingratitude, was the fall–humanity’s discontent with all that God freely gives. ~Ann Voskamp Heart laid bare in the last post I wrote and I have had nothing to write since. God and I have been wrestling about my present circumstances. I have failed. My attempt at giving up grumbling and complaining {Philippians 2: 14}…
True Fasting
This is only the second year that I have observed the season of Lent. Attending a Baptist church since being saved in 1999 has not provided an opportunity to learn much about the tradition. Last year, I studied the traditions and history of Lent. This year, I am more focused on the verses in the…
Work in Progress
I took this interesting and enlightening quiz {you must be brutally honest and prayerful for the responses to be accurate} that assesses your maturity in your relationship with Christ. Thank you, Rachel Olson, for posting the link to this! I am posting my results for several reasons: To hold myself accountable to the scores I…
Friend of Sinners
There are days when I wonder if I am doing the right thing. Others certainly have an opinion about it. Opening your heart, your life and your family to teenagers in need of Jesus is daunting work. Am I exposing my kids to too much of the world? Am I enabling girls to continue to…
Our One Year Plan
I am a planner by nature. Color coded calendar-daytimer refills-gotta have a plan kind of girl. Every year on our anniversary I force strongly encourage my hubby to sit down with me and update our one year, five year and ten year plan. We can go through life thinking we know the plan. We can…
Getting down and dirty with Jesus
I am a girly girl. I am quite certain that is why God made me the mama of three active boys {proof of God’s sense of humor}. I don’t “do” certain things: dirt, bugs, scary movies..did I mention dirt? My hubby and boys laugh at the amount of luggage I take on a camping trip. …
Where is our sense of urgency?
If people are dying and going to hell without ever even knowing there is a gospel, then we clearly have no time to waste our lives on an American dream. ~Radical, pg 143 “I’ll get to it tomorrow”. How often have you said that to yourself? How often have you thought about when will be…
