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Bit off more than I can chew.
So recently, I volunteered myself for a ministry that I don’t think I fully grasped how much work and time it was going to take. I simply raised my hand and made an offer to do it and them when I got home, I realize that I bit off more than I could chew, and…
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A Good Host
“Welcome aboard. Can I help you find your seat or offer a beverage before we depart?” “Yes, we will be departing on time today. Is there anything that I can help you will or get you?” “Here or the dinner options today. I do want to remind you that the dinner car closes late tonight,…
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Abundant Life
Dear Abundant Life, Have you ever walked into a single person’s apartment and wonder where the furniture was? Or maybe see the lack of kitchenware? Or possibly wonder why they had no pictures on their walls? Or my favorite, think to yourself, “Did they just move in?” because it doesn’t even look like someone was…
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Cast your Anxiety on the Lord.
Matthew 6:25-34, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither…
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Grow in Excitement
I have recently found a new company that has a huge assortment of different Bible studies and…. oh man…. I love them. I am doing one right now that is taking me through the Psalms and another one that is topical. I cannot not say enough about how excited I have been to sit down…
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Keeping your Heart
What is the condition of your Heart? We have an example in the Old Testament—King Amaziah, 2 Chronicles 25, where we learn three things from his story. 2 Chronicles 25:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart. When your heart is not fully…
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Unique and Beautiful
Years have now passed and you have added and removed multiple cars from your train. You have been through many different learning opportunities, lessons, and hardships. But nothing could have completely prepared you for the change that your train was about to endure. You all of a sudden have twice as many cars to deal…
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Jod
“Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.” Have you asked for understanding? The eight verses in Jod give you four lessons. First, you are to remember where you came from – God made you! Second, are you a willing servant, a bond servant? This is a servant by choice not obligation. As Paul…
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Intimidated Soul
Dear Intimidated Soul, God is not intimidated by your trauma. Honestly, I could end this letter with that simple sentence, but I want you to fully understand what it means. No matter what you are going through or have been through, God is not scared away by it. Women, Christian women, can allow their broken…
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Determination
We all have those times in our lives when we just don’t want to do something. Or when something gets to be too challenging or seem to just not be working, we respond by forsaking that task all together for something that might be easier to accomplish. Or possibly, when we get too tired or…