Life is hard, no doubt about it. Last time I shared what I had learned about renewal and my experience with it. This past week I have been thinking about how to abide in the Lord and what that even means. The Lord brought me to a deeper realization amid the chaos in my home. …
Well, we’ve come to the end of our Thanksgiving series on God and Our Trials. Friend, I don’t know where you are in your life and what circumstances you find yourself in, but I hope you have found comfort in understanding the good that will come from the hard times of life and in knowing …
So far we have looked at God’s sovereignty and His providence. His sovereignty means His complete control over everything that happens to us and how nothing surprises Him for He already knows the outcome. That can and should bring us rest and increase our faith and trust in Him. It’s His providence that brings us …
Last week we looked at God’s Sovereignty in relation to our trials. We learned how we can trust Him to provide for us through those trials. Both Matthew and Luke explained that He cares for us even more than the sparrows, lilies and grasses of the fields. Today I want to explore how the trials …
God’s sovereignty might just be my favorite attribute of Him and the one that has sustained me the most through the course of my life, especially the trials that came through being Big Bro’s mama. There were times that the only thing that got me through the days and weeks was knowing none of what …
God and our trials. Have you ever wondered where He is in the midst of the hard times you are walking through? When you are in the thick of things, it is difficult to feel His presence. But He teaches us so much about Himself through those hard times. As November begins and Thanksgiving …
In moving through the First5 app I came to Judges and the story of Sampson. I was moved by the parallels to our lives in how Sampson lacked discernment. He was enticed by the world and flirted with temptation time and time again. It is so so easy to fall prey to those things that tempt …
Well, I’m getting quite the late start on the blog here this year. So much has been happening here. To God be the glory, January brought a final diagnosis for Big Bro. In His goodness, God has blessed us with someone who read the reports correctly and is showing us how to help him. In …
Our friends at Shelton Interactive gave us The Pirate and the Firefly to review quite a while ago now. This super sweet book is the second book released in the series written by Tara Reeves and Amanda Jenkins. It is about a boy, a bug and a lesson in wisdom. The first book, The Knight and the …
Happy New Year! So how is 2016 treating you? My 2016 started out with adding a full nights sleep to my life. Our littlest guy reached 12 weeks and successfully sleep trained the night before our vacation ended. Hubby had a wonderful 3 weeks off at the end of December and we took those 3 …