Posted in Scripture, prayer, quote on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Please remember my extended family in your prayers. Ask our Father to be their strength. This is a hard time. I am just at a loss as to know how to be of help. I just don’t have the right words to say.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in times [...]
Posted in Scripture, devotion, marriage, prayer, women, tagged learning, love, marriage on January 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This first year of marriage has been a year of learning. A year filled with learning more about my husband and most especially learning more about myself and how I operate. It has been a year of going “oh yeah!” to what people had said for so long. I finally would “get” the advice married [...]
Posted in Homemaking, Scripture, baby, parenting, women, tagged baby, Homemaking, love, mother, wife on December 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Talk is cheap. This article needs to be taken to heart especially in marriages. A thought that hit me the other day is that one action can shout louder than a thousand “I love you’s”. It really made me desire to be authentically remade by the Author of Love. No wonder I have 1 Cor. [...]
Posted in Homemaking, Scripture, baby, link, parenting, photos, women, tagged books, children, Homemaking, motherhood on November 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My mom gave Andrew and I an excellent book she had read and used years ago. It is called Peaceable Fruit by Gertrude Hoeksema. It is an older book but a jewel on parenting from pre-conception, pregnancy to the first 9 months and all the way through adolescence. I am still in the infant chapters but enjoying it much. There are so [...]
Posted in Homemaking, Scripture, baby, women, tagged children, Jesus, life, love, Scripture on November 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Late at night after feeding Michaela I look down at her and trace her peaceful sweet chubby features. I study her contented face and watch as she falls quickly into a blissful sleep and listen to her little grunts and rythmic breathing. She clasps her tiny finger around my own and I am overwelmed with the preciousness of her life. [...]
Posted in Scripture, baby, link, parenting, photos, tagged baby, birthday, cloth diapers, diapers, love, pictures on November 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today Michaela is 2 weeks old and I turned quarter of a century old. I can’t believe all that has happened since last birthday! Andrew and I were about to be married in 2 months last year this time. We had dinner in Columbus at a sushi place. Mmm. My parents come in this afternoon and I can’t [...]
Posted in Homemaking, Scripture, baby, morning sickness, parenting, pregnancy, women, tagged 18 weeks on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Listening to Sara Groves is such a therapeutic experience. Her songs remind me of old journal entries and life lessons learned. Hearing her live in college was unforgettable. Not because she was showy and put on a performance but because she was the opposite she invited us to go deeper with her and think about life, people and [...]
Posted in Scripture, devotion, quote, tagged Christ, oswald chambers, quotes, Scripture on April 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There is only one kind of human nature and that is the human nature we have all got, and there is only one kind of holiness, the holiness of Jesus Christ. Give Him elbow room, and He will manifest Himself in you, and other people will recognize Him. Human beings know human beings too well to [...]
Posted in Scripture, devotion, journal, prayer, quote, tagged Bible, God, love, Psalms, quotes on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is a in God’s love that He allows and even appoints disapointment to come into our lives. He knows if we didn’t have it we would try and find our satisfaction in the things of this life and world instead of in more solid and eternal things as Himself. With Him is true joy and life. [...]
Posted in Homemaking, Scripture, morning sickness, prayer, pregnancy, women, tagged Homemaking, intercession, ministry, missions, motherhood, prayer, quote, reading on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Quote from The Ministry of Intercession by Andrew Murray:
If we can come to believe in God and His faithfulness, intercession will become the very first thing we take refuge in when we seek blessing on others, and the very last thing for which we cannot find time. And it will become a thing of joy and [...]
Posted in Scripture, prayer on February 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your [...]
Posted in Scripture, women, tagged love on February 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
takes courage. I am realizing this now more than ever. I woke up lastnight after dreaming I lost Andrew. I couldn’t stop crying. It was at that point I realized how strong the bond between Andrew and I has become, and how much stronger it will become in the years to come.
Set me as a seal upon [...]
Posted in Homemaking, Scripture, parenting, prayer, tagged birth defects, children, life on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
99 Balloons: God’s Power Revealed in a Tiny Little Babe with Trisomy 18: This is amazing.
Posted in Scripture, journal, women, tagged Christ, life, love on January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jesus knew what He was talking about when He said “do not judge others.” Have you ever had that thought when you looked at another “I wouldn’t do that.” Or “What is she thinking?” Well, I have more times than I would like to admit. And God has shown me more times than I can [...]
Posted in Scripture, link, women on January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Found here
Another challenge from John Piper:
“I earnestly recommend that it be in the early morning, unless there are some extenuating circumstances. Entering the day without a serious meeting with God, over His Word and in prayer, is like entering the battle without tending to your weapons. The human heart does not replenish itself with sleep. [...]
Posted in Scripture, prayer, tagged God, love, marriage, Scripture on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
God often calls me away from the business of agendas. He just wants me alone to fellowship with Himself. What sweet times come when I listen.
Lord, how You love us. It is amazing. You desire our fellowship. Experiencing the fierceness of human love, I see how it is a picture of the fierceness of Your love [...]
Posted in Scripture, link on January 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
These questions from A.W. Tozer are quite helpful in discerning how one is doing spiritually.
Rules for Self-Discovery
1. What we want most
2. What we think about most
3. How we use our money
4. What we do with our leisure time
5. The company we enjoy
6. Who and what we admire
7. What we laugh at
Posted in Homemaking, Scripture, tagged faith, fear, Homemaking, Scripture on January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This past Sunday the Scripture reading was Titus 2:3-5
Likewise, teach the older women
to be reverent in the way they live,
not to be slanderers
or addicted to much wine,
but to teach what is good.
Then they can train the younger women
to love their husbands and children,
to be self-controlled and pure,
to be busy at home, to be kind,
and to [...]
Posted in Scripture, Sermon link on January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This.
really made me re-think a few areas of my life. Have you ever viewed the word slavery in a positive light?
