LIVING LIFE AND LEARNING ALL I CAN ALONG THE WAY
This blog post was inspired by a conversation with my mom a while back. She was faced with a situation where someone she didn’t know was being incredibly rude to her. She decided to “turn the other cheek” and repay the person with a friendly reply. Later on, of course, she thinks of all of…
Several weeks ago, I jumped on board a challenge to memorize the entire book of James in the Bible, throughout the course of the year. This week’s memorization wraps up chapter one. I have it down pretty well, though I’ll still stumble a bit through a couple parts. I thought about recording myself on video,…
My first attempt at writing out James 1:1-11 from memory. Writing aids with memory! This past week, I discovered that a couple of friends had committed themselves to trying to memorize the book of James over the course of a year. This piqued my interest for a couple of reasons. Through my women’s bible study…
My church is currently being challenged to read through the entire New Testament of the Bible in 8 weeks. I wrote up the following after reading through week 5: the book of Matthew. We are all reading a version of the New Testament called The Books of the Bible, which uses neither chapter nor verse…
My church is currently being challenged to read the entire New Testament of the bible in eight weeks. That’s a lot of reading, and calls for a heavy commitment each day and each week. I am in a couple of different bible studies at my church and we are going through these readings as our…
What are the desires of your heart? What is it that you want more than anything? A spouse? A child? A job? Financial security? Good health? Fill in the blank…there are a myriad of things that we chase after as the one thing that we think we need to be fulfilled. What do I want…
I’m not much of a poet, but in college I had to take a creative writing class which involved writing LOTS of poetry, among other things. One of the poems I wrote was about thunderstorms—where I tried to capture my simultaneous fear and fascination of storms. I do get legitimately freaked out at a big…
A friend of mine asked me a tough question the other day. Tough in the sense that it’s hard to give a concise answer. But it got me pondering. The question posed was this: “What does your relationship with God do for you?” To compound the challenge of trying to be concise, this question was…
As a Christian, I often turn to God’s word—the Bible—for encouragement, hope and even direction in life. Living life with an autoimmune disease raises lots of questions and fears, and I have no doubt that many often wonder (as I have done) where God’s hand is in all of this. People that don’t know the…
As a Christian, I often turn to God’s word—the Bible—for encouragement, hope and even direction in life. Living life with an autoimmune disease raises lots of questions and fears, and I have no doubt that many often wonder (as I have done) where God’s hand is in all of this. People that don’t know the…