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Do You See God’s Guidance as an Interruption? What Do Your Actions Show?
Sometimes we see guidance and an interruption without realizing it. Sometimes we do this with God. I repeated myself for the third time. “Rachel, put that down. Come and sit.” She nodded, yet remained standing. A far-off look in her eyes told me she may have heard, but she certainly wasn’t listening. The iPad-mini audiobook…
The Most Merciful Thing Ever Done (mercy that changed everything)
“God’s mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.” – Charles Spurgeon In John 13:1-19, Jesus washed the feet of His disciples before the Last Supper—even His betrayer. What humility!…
What Makes Jesus’ Death and Resurrection So Amazing?
“Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!” ~Isaac Watts Every time I thought about her and what she had done to me, anger bubbled up. She hurt me. I knew I should forgive her, but honestly, I didn’t want to. That’s…
Why You Must Fight To See Goodness in the Midst of Your Suffering
Hard stuff can rip us apart if we let it, if we don’t see God’s goodness, but suffering doesn’t have to be joyless. In Press Into the Lord Now and Know a Confidence Not Even Death Can Shake, I wrote of the incredible pain I experienced in the death of my unborn children. In that pain, I…
Press Into the Lord Now and Know a Confidence Not Even Death Can Shake
When you grow to know the Lord, His character and His promises, you develop a confidence not even the worst tsunami can sweep away. I lost my first baby at around 10-week’s gestation and had no anchor to keep me from being swept into the tsunami of grief. Nothing. Nada. Oh, sure, I believed in…
When Discontentment Threatens, Look for the Beauty (It’s Always There)
Beauty often remains hidden … until we look for it. I love winter. (Now don’t hurl tomatoes, or something worse at your screen as you read this!) There are a number of valid reasons why I feel this way. I think you can relate to at least some of them: It’s generally a slower time…
Two Things You Must Do When Everything Is All Wrong
Even in the darkest days there is light. Even when everything is all wrong, there is hope. Even in the most tangled path, there is a way to joy. When It Is All Wrong Can I be honest though? I’ve felt hopeless. Not now, but years ago. I believed nothing good would ever come again.…
You Are Never Truly Alone
Although we often feel lost and alone in this life, we never truly are. A while back I had a dream, I guess a nightmare really. I had parked in a beach lot in Florida and walked over the dunes to sit on the beach as Hurricane Irma approached. A young lady with intellectual delays…
How To Love Well and Be Loved Well
You can’t be loved well and you can’t love others well while pretending. So let’s quit it. Let’s quit posturing and start loving well. Let’s dive into the deep recesses of what makes us tick and let that seep out to others. Too many of us cover up who we are with a pasted-on smile.…
What Suffering Is Doing for Me (and can do for you)
Suffering is simultaneously breaking me down and building me up. And it’s both incredibly hard and amazingly glorious. On a particularly difficult Sunday, I confessed through my tears to my pastor’s wife. “I don’t know how to raise Rachel. I can’t do this! I don’t know how to care for a child with special needs.” I posted…
Hello, I'm Julie, an imperfect wife and mother of four. Life in this broken world is not always easy. Yet, joy can be found in each day through the grace and mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I find it's easy for our day's blessings to get lost in its happenings. But God's "mercies never end" (Lamentations 3:22) and His "grace is sufficient" (2 Corinthians 12:9).
May the posts and pages on this site offer you a measure of peace and encouragement.
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