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2021 NEW YEAR WORD - COLLABORATION
Words flowed and I thought they were for this blog post, but then as I wrote I realized this is for another book...So I’m keeping it close to my chest! Instead I’ll share with you a piece of it. An event, which will be in a future book, occurred in my life in 2019. Since then God gives me a hashtag word that guides me through the year. Each of these words build on the year before and when I follow them, breakthroughs happen. He uses them to guide me in direction where He wants me to go and backs them up with tons of Scripture. It’s quite the way to live!!
HOPEWRITERS CHALLENGE: DAY 3 - "Shine"
As part of a personal challenge to myself to write better, I am joining Hope Writers Challenges! This is Day 3's writing for instagram. This picture is the result of one of those silly quizzes on Facebook. “If you were a cat 🐈 what would you look like?” When I first laid eyes on this picture, I instantly noticed the intensity and focus in this cat’s eyes and the light reflecting off the screen, illuminating her little face. Laying in those bed sheets, this is legitimately what I look like before bed or in the morning to write to people I know and people I never will meet in person face to face. To give them an ear to listen and any life wisdom I can share. The last few years, I agonized over the fact I wasn’t writing in my blog anymore or writing something substantial in a substantial way. You know, the big time. Published. I took some time this week to go back through the archives a...
HOPEWRITERS CHALLENGE 2021: DAY 1- "New Me"
As part of a personal challenge to myself to write better, I am joining Hope Writers Challenges! This is Day 1's writing for instagram. 𝑰𝒏 2020 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂 “𝒎𝒆”, 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅, 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒕𝒂𝒈 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓, #𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒅, 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑮𝒐𝒅, 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕.
THE RAPID DECLINE OF LOVE: When Politics Become The Idols of the Christian's Heart
THIS IS FROM A PUBLISHED ARTICLE ON MEDIUM. You may not agree with me on my political positions and I will not go into them too deeply, but I do hope that you will take a moment to listen as I break my own silence to share from my own perspective. As I write this, our capitol is stormed by protesters attempting to overtake the capitol. This is the most surreal moment of the history of my life. Though I can’t say I didn’t see this coming, my heart is heavy. My heart is disheartened by the behavior of Americans. Especially the church. Ones who stand up against this type of behavior when someone they don’t agree with does it. Justifying similar behavior for their own causes. To every action, there is a consequence or a blessing. In this case we are reaping consequences. “Americans, we are killing love.” In the midst of standing up for democracy, protesting our election results, and arguing with the media, we have forgotten LOVE. Love of our fellow man. Lo...
DISCIPLESHIP SERIES - The Relationship of the Trinity: Jesus Christ
The word TRINITY and the concept behind it is familiar to most Christians. However after MANY years of being a follower of Christ, God showed me something deeper about the Trinity. This truth may open the door for you to deeper understanding and clarity to the concept of the Trinity as it can be a difficult concept to comprehend.
DISCIPLESHIP SERIES- BIBLICAL STUDY: Methods and Application
The Key That Unlocks Understanding of Scriptures My husband and I have been traveling across the country in a big move so I am just now getting some time and wifi to make another lesson God placed on my heart and mind while we were in the middle of traveling. If you're new to Bible study as a Christian, you've been a Christian a very long time and been wanting to go deeper in your Biblical study, or if you're an unbeliever trying to understand Scripture this is for you.
Under Full Attack
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. ~ Ephesians 6:10-12 The last couple days have been EXTREMELY rough for me. Yes I had my victory with the doctor. I had a good day, but someone was not happy about that and has been attacking me from the time I woke up the next morning. Spiritual warfare is REAL. The past two nights I have had nightmares. I have noticed a pattern over the last few weeks of our greatest enemy Satan desperately targeting every weakness of my past and present. I have grown exhausted emotionally in just two short days. I've gone through a cycle of loss of appetite and then the temptations to...
Fictitious Ideals: A Letter To Dreamers of Marriage
This is directed mostly towards Christian single women and Christian single men. Trust me this is for your benefit too. :) Married people, do share with your single friends and family if you're so inclined. Anyone else, this is from the perspective of my faith. I'm sure others have written on this topic, but it's helpful to throw one more in the mix as this subject needs to be pounded out. For years now I have watched my generation wade through the pools of relationship struggles. Some examples are the challenge of finding "the one". They just seem to not exist right? Or living life waiting for the "the one" to come along. This could look like staying at home or living a full single life of busyness till you run into "the one" when you least expect it! It could also be in the form of being criticized of the choice you made for a spouse when you finally get around to either finding one or choosing one! Not everyone is meant to be...
My Goodbye Letter: A Memorial
I lost a sweet friend two days ago. One that has impacted and influenced my life in the short time I have known her. One whose example I pray I can live out and share beyond my generation. One whose legacy will live on through her kindness, compassion, generosity, and love for those around her. Though bittersweet, though a joyful time, I still grieve with many brothers and sisters back home as we face one more hole in the earth... As you read through this hit play on this video. Scroll and read slowly. This post is designed to fit the beautiful music and this song which was one of her favorites. A tribute to this wonderful woman who is now rejoicing with Jesus. "Morning Has Broken"
Seasoned With Change
Hello again lovelies and gents! This morning after a strange dream of someone showing me how to sketch the perfect tree with some dots, connected swirls, light and dark shading and a colored green pencil spinning technique (Will have to try this out and see if it really works. Weird dreams. Hmm..) my sweet husband kissed and hugged me goodbye like he does every morning before he went to work. He informed me he cleaned up the kitchen so I could wake up and have an easy undistracted morning. He knew I really wanted to blog today. I do not deserve a man like this, yet the Lord has chosen to bless me immensely in His grace. I am finding that in the mornings I have millions of words running rampant through my head and sometimes I have subconsciously written an entire post or dialogue before I even open my eyes. I should be writing as soon as I get up. I used to do this back when I was a teenager. A friend from very long ago introduced me to an exercise called "Morning and Nigh...
