Many spend much of their lives looking for someone to rescue them. To take care of them. A Super Hero. No human being can meet that need without failing often. So, it can be easy to begin to think that …
Category Archives: Discontentment
God never intended for us to want anything more than we want Him! When the Israelites wanted food more than they wanted God…they willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they CRAVED.
God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. I hate to break this to you, we are ALL ordinary people. He chooses what the world calls “losers” and “failures and shows us how to be “fit for the Master’s use.”
Progressive ideals When I married, I held tightly to the progressive ideas of my Baby Boomer generation. One of those ideas was that society was so evil and corrupt, I couldn’t stand bringing a child into the world. The Vietnam …
The Wilderness “In the wilderness, God puts us to the test, but in our cravings, we put God to the test. We ask, ‘What are you going to do for me this time?… “Israel craved meat in the wilderness. It …
Overwhelmed? Don’t know where to turn? Life is hard. Yet, we know God is good! All the time! So “What is our problem?” And why do we feel like we are going to “crack” so often? We simply have too …
A walk alone by the lake clears my head and connects me to God like nothing else can. Healing happens there. It happened again yesterday. I was reading “Jesus Himself”…a tiny book (42 pages) by Andrew Murray.The book has a …
Let’s start the new year off with me telling you a secret. After that, the title will make more sense. A little bit of background first After raising my children, I went back to school to get a business degree …
After all this time, we are getting to be pretty good friends, so I decided it’s time to share one of my Busted by God stories. Here’s what sometimes happens: I get an idea. Someone or something prevents it going forward. …
I feel pretty sad about some of my mothering as a single mom. Even though I did the best I knew how to do at the time…the best I had the strength to do…it simply was not good enough! There …