The best marriage advice I ever got was long before I was ever married. An elder from my church could see that I really, rea...
Showing posts with label lessons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lessons. Show all posts
Why I Don't Drink Alcohol
Sparkling apple juice for me, please! In brief, here are 5 reasons why I'm a very happy teetotaler. 1. The taste. Ewww. Peo...
You're Embarrassing Me
Conversations like this rarely happen in homes of fathers and daughters, but it happened frequently in mine during my teenage years. ...
Drunk & Reassured
Busyness is the most prevalent drunkenness of the modern age. "Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against ...
Making Life Choices. While Holding Hands.
Making life choices can be agonizing. I know. I've had to make too many lately. You're there, looking at the options, and prayi...
"God, have mercy on me": a page from my journal
To some who were confident of their own rightness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: "Two people went into a...
My Thirtieth, Intentional Year
This week I turned 29. ... (I'll pause while you sing me Happy Birthday.) ... The 366 days that I lived as a 28-year-old were ki...
those who will stand for the right
“…those who will stand for the right, though the heavens fall.” a noble calling, for sure. but I wonder if it might actually be easier to ...
It's the painful part of His faithfulness.
The more I resist the lessons that God is trying to teach me, the harder He lays them against me. It's the painful part of His fa...
Long Legs and Walking with Confidence
Once, when I was nine, I stood in the hallway and admired myself in the mirror. I turned my body left and right, I looked up and down. Annou...
the test of the commandment
The Sabbath is doing its appointed work in me today. As the sun sank past the corn fields I was restless and exhausted, sleepy but stress...
God's Will for You: Problem Solved
It seems as though many of my friends and fellow bloggers are like me and spend a lot of time wondering about what God's will for them i...
Self-Pity and Christ's Heavenly Ministry
In the car driving home. Back ache. Raining, yet sun in my eyes. Tiredness. My heart is hurting. I feel confused and helpless and just as I...
Who is this person?
ENFJs weave and strengthen the collective fabric of social conventions and interactions. Inclusiveness is important and they are particularl...
#44. Realizing that my life is better than I dreamed about as a kid.
I live in a house with a yard. I have a nice car (a 2001 Honda Civic, but I think it’s pretty nice :) and I own a computer and a convectio...
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