HAPPY HOUR: Fridays AT 5:00 P.M.—Kick back after a hard week’s work and enjoy the intoxicating goodness of true love and wisdom without putting a dent in your wallet. It’s like free fast food for your soul. ~Enjoy! When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, weContinue reading “Happy Hour: What do you get?”
Tag Archives: prayer
Expect Trials to Multiply
I cannot say my soul was comforted but it was resolved.
Even as I type out that day’s schedule I realize only God could have given me the energy and clarity of mind to get through that day. He’s good like that. God delights in the invitation to be involved in our daily lives. I’ll gladly take more of Him!
Toxic Tuesday: Narcissistic Parents
My guest author uses the pseudonym Joy S. to protect their identity as well as the relationship with their parents/family. “Don’t I, as an adult child, have to do what they ask in order to honor them?” Good question. Please don’t confuse “honor your parents” with “worship your parents.” I did for a long time!” Read more: 3 steps for breaking the difficult cycle. Difficult, but not impossible. Nothing is impossible with God!
Toxic Tuesday: Underage House Guests, Technology and How I Protect My Kids
Laptops, phones, iPads, iPods and MP3s all stay on the hospitality bar until young guests are through visiting our home.
AN URGENT CALL TO PRAYER: DAY THREE • Anne Graham Lotz
“The law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.” Galatians 3:24, NKJV “The Christian life is motivated, not by a list of do’s and don’ts, but by the gracious outpouring of God’s love and blessing. We want to live our lives to please God because before Jesus “theContinue reading “AN URGENT CALL TO PRAYER: DAY THREE • Anne Graham Lotz”
Toxic Tuesday: Moms’ Night Out—You Need to Laugh
I had not experienced such unbridled laughter since reading the Pioneer Woman’s, All I Wanted Was a Doughnut.
I thought the movie would strictly be a ‘Chick-Flick’ but no; I heard and saw men laughing as uncontrollably as me.
Toxic Tuesday: A Path Through the Forest
When the messiness of life keeps you from seeing anything from God, hearing anything from God or feeling anything from God GO—TO—HIS—WORD; the Bible. Read the truth until you feel it, remember it—know it!
And remember: Don’t Feed the Bears
Toxic Tuesday: DEAD END
Every time I came to road block, while attempting to help this person, I looked for a detour and took it. This circumstance defied my spiritual convictions, resolve and long-term goals. I was confident erring on the side of faith would turn out better than erring on the side of easy. I knew God had made provision for me to leave this relationship but I wanted to find healing for this person for multiple reasons.
Toxic: People Do Not Buy People
With internet pornography in play (video not just still pictures) and more and more men becoming addicted to types of porn not previously seen by generations before us, I truly believe we are only seeing the tip of the sex trafficking ice berg.
Toxic Tuesday: Tasers and Tea
Why do men do this? Answer:
What type of victim are they looking for?
What do they want to avoid?
What can children, young adults and women do who find themselves in an attempted abduction?
Better yet, how can they avoid being the target of abduction?
Toxic Tuesday: Biblical Permission to Leave a Toxic Spouse?
The Bible gives two reasons for divorce; adultery and abandonment. Theologically many argue abandonment strictly means the physical state. I submit, in the case of abuse they have emotionally abandoned you through; abdication, blocked intimacy, isolation, loneliness, neglect, rejection and lack of protection.
A Little Bit of Chocolate and a Whole Lot of Jesus 3/23/2014
I want the spiritual blessings. We have many blessings and provisions found in scripture. Here are five:
Child Sexual Abuse Symptoms: Part 3
SYMPTOMS: Emotional, Behavioral and Physical Signs of Childhood Sexual Abuse; Internet Victimization Signs.
Child Sexual Abuse Symptoms: Part 3
SYMPTOMS: Emotional, Behavioral and Physical Signs of Childhood Sexual Abuse; Internet Victimization Signs.
Motorcycle/Camry Accident and the ICU: Part 2
I get giddy when I’m upset and when I am retelling serious or traumatic events. It is a weird quirk, I know, but it is exactly what happens to me. I wish I could explain why I sound giddy when I am truly distressed.
Toxic Tuesday – Protecting Children from Predators: Part 2
“Predators are in all professions. Unfortunately, we have seen doctors, lawyers, law enforcement and clergy. There is really no common trait. In fact, many of them are drawn to those particular professions which give them access to children.”
Toxic Tuesday – Protecting Children from Predators: Part 2
“Predators are in all professions. Unfortunately, we have seen doctors, lawyers, law enforcement and clergy. There is really no common trait. In fact, many of them are drawn to those particular professions which give them access to children.”
A Toxic Relationship and a Therapeutic Separation
Remember, unfaithfulness is forgivable. Mental illness is treatable. With God all things are possible. The bottom line is you want a healed heart, a healed spouse, a healed marriage and a healed family unit.
The Johnson Family Miracle: Our Story Goes On
“We could have been wiped out in a split second but we weren’t.” “I look back at how Todd prayed for the protection. Todd prayed for our protection, for the car’s protection for the trailer’s protection…”
“Embracing the Circumstance God Has Put Us In” -Joni Eareckson Tada
I have visibly seen the wall of self-protection come down as these sweet women pour out their hearts and are comforted in their vulnerabilities.
A Walking Talking Answered Prayer: Life after a T.B.I.
…the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair
Toxic Tuesday: Boundaries Nov. 26, 2013
“That is your opinion,” used consistently will remind your D.P. the ‘wear them down’ tactic is no longer a working strategy to be used against you.
Toxic Tuesday: Boundaries
Do not feed the monsters!
Toxic People
Remember: There isn’t any problem a little bit of chocolate and a whole lot of Jesus can’t fix!
DIY Prayer Box “I Can’t Do This but I’m Doing It Anyway.”
…my soul found uninterrupted intimate relationship, renewed strength and blissful zeal… — YOU NEED THIS!
Flashing Billboards on My Forehead
… if you, like me, have a flashing billboard on your forehead — turn it off! And keep clear of Icy Hot.
DIY Prayer Board
There is relief, sometimes unexplainable, that only comes through prayer. So we pray for those we know and love and for those who ask us to pray for them.
The Increase: Adam Wainwright – My Story
The Increase: Adam Wainwright – My Story. Here is how the worst injury in the St. Louis Cardinals’ Adam Wainwright’s career helped him thrive in his personal life.
Breaking Free from Abuse: Part 3
Nothing crushes your spirit more than abuse.
We have to deal with abuse because it is contagious and gets passed on from generation to generation.
Hidden Hardships Behind Closed Doors
HIDDEN HARDSHIPS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS I received this devotion in my email inbox yesterday from Proverbs 31 Ministries. This is a beautiful testimony of how a woman lived through difficult circumstances by not forsaking her time with the Lord each day. Over three hundred years ago this woman made a difference not only in theContinue reading “Hidden Hardships Behind Closed Doors”