Encouragement

Die to self. We hear this message over and over as Christians, but actually doing it is something all together very challenging. Last month I was reading in the book of Ezekiel, and as I read verse after verse and chapter after chapter, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for the poor man based on…

Recently, my family and I were given tickets to the movie, Courageous.  Not knowing much about the film other than the fact that it was made by the same folks who produced Facing the Giants and Fireproof, I was really looking forward to seeing it. After watching this wonderful, phenomenal, God-fearing, and biblically accurate (according…

Today I was in the process of grabbing food from my refrigerator so I could make lunch for my family.  Sounds like an ordinary afternoon, right?  However, my refrigerator is not in my house but in my friends’ garage.  I quickly became distracted by all the stuff that was surrounding me and unfortunately, I immediately…

I was slightly immersed in one of my favorite books, My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers, as I looked on at the kids splashing in the pool today.  I wasn’t sure at first what they were playing.  Kids on either side of the dividing line (pool sweep hose) while throwing objects at one…

Out of the ashes of my life came God’s beauty.  Grab my hand as I take you to the Cross to show you the great and mighty things that the Lord has done.   “Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.”  Jeremiah 33:3…

Sometimes I just want to close my eyes and pretend I am not living this life because this is not what I had expected, yet, this is what I prayed for. From being sick for so many years and now this?  The home being lost, again! Why on earth would the Lord ask me to…

Do you ever get tired of living in the ‘storms’ of life? I know I have! I have been asked that question often by other women and what I have tried to do in my own life is learn to sleep in the boat like Jesus did when He was in a storm. (Please know…

So, after my last post on despair and denial of the Lord, I figured I would address another elephant in the room amongst Christians. I often wonder why we don’t share about certain topics because who better to understand our fragility, brokenness, sin, failures, and hard times than another sister in the Lord, after all,…

Goodness gracious, every time I think I have finished sharing my story with you, I hear the Lord speak to me, “Share more! Tell your sisters of your struggles and your pain and show them My hand of faithfulness in all of it.  I often think who wants to hear about my grief because after…

I had no intentions of writing this post anytime soon because, quite honestly, I did not want to mentally and emotionally relive the past feelings of my life where I experienced so much physical pain, long-suffering, hopelessness and times of despair as I walked with the Lord.  I knew at some point the Lord would…