Monday, March 1, 2021
Weekly Gratitude Journal
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Honoring Others
It's been ten years since my mama went to heaven and there are still moments when I have an overwhelming sense of missing her. I think of the five grandchildren that have been added to our family since she passed away and how tickled she would be with each one of them. I think of questions I wished I had asked her about her life or how she made some of my favorite dishes. With the missing her, comes the knowledge that, at age 63, there are still times I find myself needing my mama. I don't need her to take care of me or to help me; I don't need her for what she could do for me. I need her for what she was to me. (Join me for the rest of this post on Sunday, February 28th at Woman to Woman Ministries, where each Sunday I share a bit of Sunday Soul Food!)
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Saturday, February 20, 2021
Rock Solid Truth You Can Count On
I love how gut level honest the Bible is. God's Word doesn't gloss over the way God's people struggle. Suffering, disappointment, frustration, doubt, fear and anger are common experiences and emotions for us all and the Bible reflects those experiences and emotions even in the lives of those we consider the Bible's heroes.
Jeremiah, prophet to the people of Judah, was given a not so pleasant assignment by God. His job was to tell the people that they were going to go into captivity as a consequence of their continual disobedience and unfaithfulness to God. Needless to say, Jeremiah, being the bearer of this bad news, was not received graciously. (Join me for the rest of this post on Sunday, February 21st at Woman to Woman Ministries, where each Sunday I share a bit of Sunday Soul Food!)
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Weekly Gratitude Post
Saturday, February 13, 2021
A Gentle and Quiet Spirit
We had three growth groups meeting in separate areas of the main meeting room at our church. One group was posting their discussion on zoom. Later, when I watched the zoom video, I was dismayed to hear my own voice participating in the discussion with a completely different growth group halfway across the room. "Am I really that loud?" I wondered. "Have I always been that loud?" "Did I become loud because our family tends to be loud?" "Have I developed a loud speaking voice because of decades of public speaking?" To be honest, as is prone to happen, the thoughts magnified the more I dwelt on them and I became disheartened and wondered, "will I ever have the gentle and quiet spirit that is precious in God's sight?" "What does that even mean and how do I do it?"
I decided to try to unpack what God was really saying to me through those verses by using one of my favorite bible study tools. I simply typed the words, "greek lexicon for 1 Peter 3:4" in the search engine bar on my computer. Up popped Bible Hub which took me to the definitions of the words of the verse in the original language. What treasure and reassurance and comfort I found! (Join me for the rest of this post on Sunday, February 14th at Woman to Woman Ministries, where each Sunday I share a bit of Sunday Soul Food!)
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