I have to be honest with you and share that there have been many times and seasons over the past three and a half decades of walking with the Lord when I didn’t He was enough. I believed a lie and it was a simple one: If I was “good” then the Lord was obligated to give me my hearts desire. This was most obvious in my early years of being a Christian.
I figured it worked with raising children and since He was a good Father, it only made sense that if I behaved and followed all the rules He’d give me what I wanted…
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Motherhood: The After Party, for When Your Nest is Empty
The invitation arrives when you least expect it, folded neatly like fresh towels warm from the dryer and wraps, unexpectedly, around your heart. The invitation reads something like this:
Dear Mom:
You are cordially invited to a party. An After Party.
Your children are growing up. They’re heading out of the nest and all those years of love and sacrifice, cooking and cleaning, disciplining and discipling–are coming to an unceremonious end. This is your invitation to Act 2.
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Will you take The God Dare?
What’s the crazy dream God has dropped in your heart? What is He asking you to do you know you couldn’t possibly do on your own? In fact, if you try to do it on your own you’re pretty much guaranteed to fall flat on your face? Has He given you a wild, preposterous, secret, …
Hello There 2019!
As I’ve said before God’s economy is never wasteful and He never squanders the life training He gives us. He will use everything you’ve gone through when you trust Him to lead. God will call out the big dream He placed in your heart decades earlier and give it wings, if you’re willing to step out. Both Abraham and Moses prove you are never too old for God to use you—and both of these remarkable biblical heroes changed the world.
The Journey of Catch and Release
It’s a push me/pull you, this mothering thing. Holding tight and at the same time, letting go. It’s a long, long journey of catch and release. We have these tiny, soft, helpless babies, and we vow to hold them close, keep them safe, and never let the world and all it’s fear and worry and …