Carol’s paraphrase: Dear God, I ask You to give me a complete understanding of what You want to do in my life this year, and I ask You to make me wise with spiritual wisdom. Then the way I live will always honor and please You, Lord, and I will continually do good, kind things for others. All the while, I will learn to know You better and better. I […] Read More
Goodbye 2004! Can’t say I’m going to miss you. This year has been one of the harder years of my life. I’m glad it’s over and I’m looking forward to what 2005 has to bring.
I spent some solitude in the city today – went for coffee with God (I have no children for 2 days – they’re at grandma’s). Isn’t it funny how when you stop what you’re doing and spend time with God, seeking Him, He speaks to you? Anyways, I was encouraged during the time I spent with Him, my ‘sight’ readjusted. I hope to spend some more solitude tomorrow.
It’s Christmas! This is such a fun day, especially if you have children. Leighton came over and shared the first part of the morning with us and we all had a good time (of course, he was the one calling us at 7:00am, telling me it was Christmas and asking if it was time to open the presents yet). My youngest’s initial reaction when I woke him up and told […] Read More
I had a ‘light bulb’ moment today. My church’s Christmas ‘Concerts of the Heart’ was this evening. People are able to share their artistic gifts in many forms in a ‘concert-type’ format. This can include singing, dance, drama, instrumentals, etc. But our Christmas one is a little more involved. It’s set up more like a ‘dinner theatre’ (but with desserts instead) and there are two seatings. The person organizing the […] Read More
I’m thinking about distractions today. My oldest son has a very difficult time being able to focus his attention. When he’s not on his medication, he sometimes seems to be completely all over the place. And I tend to get frustrated because I can’t get him to focus on what is right in front of him. Are we like that? We tend to get distracted by so many things that […] Read More
I’m beginning to feel much better now. I’m starting to be able to look back on this year of ‘h-e-double hockey sticks’ and see God there. So here’s my profound thought on all of this: God loves us so much, He will allow us to go through incredible amounts of stress and heartache in order to set us free from the things that hinder us. Even though it hurts and […] Read More
There is an extremely fine line between life and death. And God seems to be an expert at balancing that. He is able to push a person enough to break down their internal defenses so He can deal with those things in our inmost being that we protect but that are not build on God’s foundation at all. We protect ways of reacting to the world that are actually destructive […] Read More
I feel like I’m being unravelled and each time I think I’ve gotten to the end, I realize there’s more to be unravelled. I’ve been asking God for the ‘key’ to my freedom – freedom to ‘fly’ and be ‘ME’. And it seems that every time I think I’ve found the key, the door opens to another room that I had not expected and I realize that I still don’t […] Read More
I love my church family! The one I meet with on Sunday mornings. There’s probably people who would mock my church family. They might accuse us of relying too much on the ‘leading of the Holy Spirit’ and not enough on reasoning things out. We sometimes do things that would seem silly or strange. But I don’t really care what other people think. Because this I do know: more and […] Read More