I'm so grateful to be sharing my space with Barefoot Hippie Girl today! She graciously offered to contribute during this crazy-busy time for me. And I love what she offers here: wise advice from God's Word about waiting on God. It also happens to corresponds with the post on her own blog today {here}. So read away -- and please be sure to leave some comment-love for her! Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him. (Psalm 37:7) But those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth. (Psalm 37:9) Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord. (Psalm 27:14) Who likes to wait? Not I, said the fly. I think our [...Read More]
Do Not Worry About Tomorrow
November 15, 2012 By 4 Comments
Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life... Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to his life? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little [...Read More]
Election Day 2012
November 6, 2012 By 8 Comments
Choose not to be anxious today. About anything. But bring every aspect of the day -- and of the elections -- before God in prayer. Do not worry, but pray with thanksgiving in your heart, because that is God's will for you. Pray continually with earnest pleading and thanksgiving, according to the Holy Spirit's leading. And trust God to answer in His perfect way. Do not place your hopes in a man, some human who is destined to fail. After all, the day he dies -- or leaves office -- his plans are done. He is finished. So do not trust in man, but trust in the great unchanging I Am, whose purposes and ways are beyond human comprehension. Trust in the One who has all authority in [...Read More]
Master, the Tempest Is Raging!
October 30, 2012 By 6 Comments
Now when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side... And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. And they went and woke him, saying, 'Save us, Lord; we are perishing.' And he said to them, 'Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?' Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. And the men marveled, saying, 'What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?' Matthew 8:18, 23-27 Praying peace for you in the midst of crazy [...Read More]
Fighting against Boundaries
October 25, 2012 By 12 Comments
As I sit writing this, I'm listening to the soundtrack of my dog barking in the back yard. There's currently three neighborhood dogs wandering loose down the street {why their owners don't keep them in their yards, I'll never understand}. And my dog wants to be with them. Those three dogs have all sorts of fun. They play with the kids, run alongside the four-wheelers, and wander around the neighborhood at their own free will. And my puppy doesn't understand why she has to be chained up in our back yard, instead of running and playing with the other dogs. She doesn't realize that, if she were loose, it would be so easy for a car to come careening around the curve and hit her. She doesn't [...Read More]
How to hold on to your dreams…
October 1, 2012 By 16 Comments
There's been so much on my mind lately. God has been reshaping my priorities, planting ideas in my mind, sparking dreams for future opportunities of things I never thought would be possible for me... things I never thought of period. I have all these words and ideas rolling around in my mind. Thoughts about writing, and ministering, and leading, and encouraging. Comparisons of online outreach versus traditional communication. Ideas of building upon the things I already do - blogging, networking, interacting on social media - and weaving those into something bigger, something larger in scope and outreach. I feel like I'm finding all these puzzle pieces, but I don't know yet what the [...Read More]
Being Abraham: revisited
August 30, 2012 By 10 Comments
School is starting up again for my husband. He's about 33% of the way through his M.Div program (4 more years to go, maybe?). And every semester has been a challenge in many ways, but especially financially. But though it's been difficult and uncertain, God has been so faithful to provide just what we need, just when we need it. And every semester, I think back to when he first enrolled in seminary, in August 2010. I wrote a post at that time about what we were anticipating, and how we were (not really) planning to get through it all. We were walking by faith, just like Abraham did when he set out to an unknown country. He only knew that God had called him to go, but he had no idea where [...Read More]
Ever Feel Like You’re Drowning?
May 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, 'Lord, save me.' Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, 'O you of little faith, why did you doubt?' Matthew 14:29-31 I had a rough week. I struggled with trusting God fully, with being completely surrendered to His will for my health. I shared with you a little about the other day, talking about How to Flourish in Life. I wish we could just learn our lessons and never be tested on them again... I wish it were easier. But this is the life we have. This is the effect of sin in the world. We struggle. We [...Read More]
How to Flourish in Life
May 24, 2012 By 4 Comments
I woke up feeling discouraged this morning. I've been going through another rough week health-wise (nothing serious, just a few lingering things), and am impatient to feel better. And I was moping around, feeling sorry for myself and whining to God, and He gently nudged me and reminded me: focus on something else. As in, stop thinking about myself and get busy! And then I grabbed my Bible to do my daily reading, and found a common thread running through the verses: the benefits of trusting in God. You might wonder whether that actually relates to feeling lousy, but it does. You see, if I want to be in control of how my body feels, then I am not trusting God's control. If I want to feel [...Read More]
What Are You Learning?
April 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This is supposed to be my post where I share what I've learned from my Bible reading this week. From the TTB12 readings. But, although I've kept up with the schedule, what I've been learning hasn't really been in the daily readings. So what has God been teaching me? 1. Don't try to analyze the wind. In other words, don't try to figure everything out, because not everything in this life can be figured out. He has His own ways of working and leading, and those ways are far beyond our human comprehension. Simply trust, and rest, and let Him work in His own perfect way and time. 2. Don't wish away the difficult times. Who wouldn't agree that life is hard? But we can learn to rest in those [...Read More]
