Tag: God
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What is waiting?
Wait on the Lord. Something that appears over, and over, and over in the Bible. Wait on Him. Is that the same thing as patience? I say a little bit yes, but mostly no. Patience doesn’t mean to wait. The dictionary definition defines patiences this way: the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering…
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Spiritual Triage
Our churches meet once a week on Sunday. Perhaps they have small groups throughout the week, maybe an event here and there. What are we doing? Who’s idea was it for churches to have one big meeting? One day a week? Large churches have Saturday services, sometimes they hold three or four during the week.…
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Unschool // Houseschool // Homeschool
Huh? Yeah. Apparently, there are a million ways to homeschool your children. And it’s confusing, because each one is like a different community with different beliefs on how to do it the “right” way. Jon and I have decided to homeschool our kids. It wasn’t an easy decision. It’s something that I always thought I’d…
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Why do we need patience?
Patience…I’m starting to get what that means. I know I am only getting a taste of it, too. I know when I am twice my age and looking back, I will probably laugh a little at what I thought was hard at 30, and what I thought I was learning. What I think is a…
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How it all looks to me.
I’ve been trying to get a better picture of who God is, and how He interacts within the Trinity. It’s a concept that is difficult to fathom, and even more difficult to explain. Today, I found a new way of thinking about it while I was praying. Imagine God in the only way we can,…
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For such a time as this.
God has been pressing these thoughts on my heart and really giving me a love for a group of girls that I don’t know. That I have never met. They are part of Delight, an organization that exists to encourage, educate, and edify teenage girls that are involved in the creative arts. I love this…
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Three of three
I grew up thinking that the Holy Spirit was our great enabler. The part of the trinity that was most mysterious to me. I thought of the Spirit as a tool used by God or Jesus to help me reach others. And that’s it. The Spirit is so much more. Think of it this way.…
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The unfeeling feeling.
Spring is finally here. I feel like my emotions are tied in with the weather. But it’s more than that. It’s the world itself. A hard shell awakens and from death, total death of so many things, comes life. It happens so quickly. One nice day, a little rain, and BAM! Green grass and daffodils…
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The Great When.
I’m sitting on the couch. I’ve become very close friends with it over the past few months. I feel a little like it is a part of me, and if I don’t sit on it at least once a day, my day isn’t complete. Because of how things are…just life, ya know? This room is…
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God’s Promises
I feel so beaten down, but not beaten. Battered, but not broken. I’ve taken hits from all sides, our family has been barraged with every kind of disaster, but God still wins, and we are still faithful. We know the value of faithfulness. It’s just so hard sometimes. But why? God is our source for…
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What is up with all of this….yawn…what was I talking about?
Where am I? How much time just passed? Did I just fall asleep? Are my two toddlers really pulling all of the wipes out of the container and covering the entire living room floor with them? It could be worse. It has been worse. Remember the pancake batter all over the kitchen floor? That was…