Spiritual Growth

Fly By Night

…some of my fellow Rush compatriots may be seeing a theme. I’ll leave it at that. My thoughts today? Cluttered. …all over the place. Good and bad. Happy and sad. Mia and I went to see mommy last night. We held each other, cried, read a bunch of headstones (which is always an interesting experience) [&hellip

Questions

When I miscarried the first time, I was angry at God. I couldn’t understand why He would allow us to conceive after over three years of waiting for a child only to rip that blessing right out of our hands. When it happened a second time, I was baffled. I remember driving in my car [&hellip

Lessons

I woke up again this morning. …and the slap to my face as reality hit was just as hard as it was yesterday. …but today, I feel just a little bit less alone. Yesterday, Just as I was beginning to feel that there was no hope, no connection to God, and indeed no connection to [&hellip

Inside Out

”Then the Lord said to him, ’Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people!’ ” Luke 11:39-40a A few years ago, I led a Bible Study for Middle School girls. When they moved to High School, I was able [&hellip

All Knowing

Just before my husband deployed, my Bible and (expensive) camera got doused with a bottle of water and both were ruined. I was bummed about my camera since it would be expensive to replace. However, I was heart-broken over my Bible. I had been using it for 7 years! It was compact and so I [&hellip

Attack on Patience

Today has been a very trying day. The enemy attacked me big time. I woke up with no patience. If you know about 2 year olds, then you know that that is a terrible combination. I have to make a confession. At first I thought Timothy was just being bad. However, when I sat down [&hellip

Lead By Example

”When I saw, though, that their behavior was not true to the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of all of them, ’Since you, though you are a Jew, live like the gentiles and not like the Jews, how can you compel the gentiles to live like the Jews?’ ” – Galatians 2:14 I’ve [&hellip

Perfection

I don’t think you would ever suspect me- the cheerful, ultimate optimist, glass half-full, (must I confess) annoyingly perky without coffee personality. I wake up at 5:30 each morning to go work out, eat healthy (except for chocolate splurges), read, adore my husband and son, love my extended family, worship the Almighty God. Everything is [&hellip

Simplicity Rules

”In the course of their journey he came to a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. She had a sister called Mary, who sat down at the Lord’s feet and listened to him speaking. Now Martha, who was distracted with all the serving, came to him and said, ’Lord, do [&hellip

Starting Out

In my life, God has had to be very bold when teaching me things. I guess you could stay that I’m a little stubborn or hard headed and like to take the reigns. He gently and not so gently reminds me that He is in control and His plan is always better than my own. [&hellip