Love and encouragement from an imperfect mom and her fun teen daughters. We welcome you to live life with us.
I titled this “Choose Joy,” because having joy is our choice. We can miss it! Happiness is different from joy, because it comes from happenings. If good things happen, we might feel happy. But we can choose to be joyful even when our happenings (circumstances) are hard. There are even commands to be joyful, such … Read more Choose Joy, Find Pleasure
I closed last week’s post on surrender (“Surrendering our Concerns”) by saying acceptance is the second step in this Spiritual growth. After we stop resisting and finally surrender our weakness to God, we might demand an instant fix for our problems, instead of truly accepting how difficult (and how long-lasting) problems are when we surrender. … Read more Acceptance a Close Cousin to Surrender
I ended my post last week saying that we need to surrender our concerns to Jesus, but surrendering can be so scary, some people never do so. They are terrified of facing their pain and afraid that Jesus might judge them. Oh how sad these ideas are, since they keep us from the One who … Read more Surrendering our Concerns
Recognizing Patterns in Your Sin Last week I closed my post mentioning that some stubborn Christians do not want to face and heal their pain. These gals and men are moody or irritable all the time, not on occasion. These people may actually have different chronic problems too, whether that means always being angry, fearful … Read more Breaking Your Personal Strongholds:
In the last 2 weeks (except for the break I took at Christmas), I’ve been writing about my spiritual hunger and how it is strongest in my areas of greatest weakness. For example, I crave God’s love and affirmation more than some people do, because I am weak in this area. I overly-crave people’s affirmation … Read more Recognizing and Feeding Spiritual Needs all Day Long