My eyes wait for You and You give me food in due season. You open Your hand and satisfy me with favor. Psalm 145:15-16 He whispered to my heart that He wanted my family to care for orphans. Sometimes I wonder if I didn’t have a habit of spending time in His word if IContinue reading “Our Adoption Story Part 2: Waiting and Listening”
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Margin: Making Room for Me
I keep my heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Proverbs 4:23 I was so tired. It was early still, only 9:30 pm. I had just tucked the kids in bed. Usually that’s when I’d go downstairs and read or watch something until 11:00 or so, but that particularContinue reading “Margin: Making Room for Me”
Mama: The Unsung Hero
Train the young women to love their husbands and children. To be self controlled, pure, working at home, kind and submissive to their husbands, that the word of God might not be reviled. Titus 2:4-5 We all want it, to be important, to matter. To feel like we are making a difference in the world.Continue reading “Mama: The Unsung Hero”
Stop Praying For Open Doors
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6 I knew what it was that God wanted me to do, or at least I thought I did. I felt a longing, a nudge.Continue reading “Stop Praying For Open Doors”
Stand Up! Even if You’re Standing Alone.
We must obey God before man– Acts 5:29 There’s something about wanting to be liked… it’s human nature. A crippling need deep inside of us that longs for other’s approval. Standing up for what you believe requires risk. If you have a strong opinion about something and start voicing it, then you’re taking a chance.Continue reading “Stand Up! Even if You’re Standing Alone.”
How to Help Your Kids Take Responsibility for Their Actions
Fools give full vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end.- Proverbs 29:11 It was just one of those days. My boys were at it again! They are best friends but sometimes they are also each other’s worst enemies. And here they go, fighting like cats and dogs! To make mattersContinue reading “How to Help Your Kids Take Responsibility for Their Actions”
Say Yes to Being Used
I was a young woman when I was first asked to teach the word. It was not a big fancy invitation. It was a simple request from a pastor at my church. I have to admit, when he first asked me, I was scared! Like, shaking in my boots kind of scared. I would beContinue reading “Say Yes to Being Used”
Leaving the Wilderness and Entering the Promised Land
For the Lord your God is bringing you in to a good land, a land in which you will eat with out scarcity, in which you will lack nothing- Deuteronomy 8:7 As soon as our plane landed in Seattle, I knew I wouldn’t like it there. It was dark and dank with a constantContinue reading “Leaving the Wilderness and Entering the Promised Land”
Finding Fulfillment
“There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and make himself enjoy good in his labor. Even this I have seen is from the hand of God.” Ecclesiastes 2:24 I used to manage a coffee shop. There were things that I genuinely enjoyed about it-the hustle and bustle of busyContinue reading “Finding Fulfillment”
