Love and encouragement from an imperfect mom and her fun teen daughters. We welcome you to live life with us.
I discussed the trouble I had forgiving difficult people in my two last posts “Struggling to Forgive” and “Struggling to Forgive, part two.” I explained my ongoing forgiveness for a person who is now dead. I needed to get past her faults and understand her hidden pain. Outwardly she lived a charmed life, but because … Read more Continuing to Forgive (part 3)
I am expanding last week’s post “Struggling to Forgive.” I talked about misconceptions (lies or myths about forgiveness) and explained that even when we truly want to forgive, we pay a huge price for the wrongs others did to us. Those wrongs hurt badly and make forgiving much harder, since it comes at such a … Read more Struggling to Forgive, part two
Why do we struggle to forgive some people? I find most people easy to forgive, except people who got close to me and then wounded me badly. If I knew these people for a long time, or if I still have to relate to them, I struggle with forgiving them more than I do forgiving … Read more Struggling to Forgive
Our sinful flesh causes many problems, but we might only be aware of the obvious areas, the “lusts of the flesh,” (over-eating and sins of lust.) I had not realized how many aspects of our lives are actually ruled by our flesh, until I struggled with my temper while dealing with inanimate objects. God showed … Read more Hidden Problems the Flesh Causes
In last week’s post “Deceived by False Doctrine” I discussed some specific false doctrines, about God, that have deceived me and other people. Whether a church directly teaches errors or people misunderstand the truth and come up with wrong ideas, the false doctrine pulls them away from the true heart of God. This week I … Read more Fighting False Doctrine, part two
We may have learned false doctrine in church, as it was taught, or by misunderstanding the truth and coming up with wrong ideas on our own. Either way, false doctrine harms our Christian walk, until we re-learn the truth. In posts I have written earlier, I mentioned some wrong ideas I developed about God, due … Read more Deceived by False Doctrine
Masculinity is not ever toxic; a false idea of masculinity (often in sissy-men who bully others) is the true, toxic problem. We must never confuse these two groups or blame all men. Truly masculine men are strong and kind. Yes, even good men make mistakes, but they take responsibility for their mistakes. True masculinity breeds … Read more No Such Thing as Toxic Masculinity
A contrast with those who do praise God Wow, Psalm 106 shows such a stark contrast between those who praise God and those who don’t. This Psalm so amazed me I decided to write about this contrast, especially since I wrote a post (a while back) about why we do praise God. I had written … Read more Those Who Don’t Praise God:
Cheap, you can make it yourself… We have high humidity in our house, year round, and we’ve had problems with mold. Ugh. But I have found a cheap way to clean mold, with my home-concentrated powerful but nonpoisonous cleaner. It is so strong, you still have to wear gloves and protect your eyes, because it … Read more Safe & Nonpoisonous Super-powerful Cleaner
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