Growth
Your Sacred Journey: Through the Struggle Comes Growth
Looking back I see a bit clearer why the Lord didn’t grant my wish for the life I desired. He offered something more to me. He’s asking me to walk a sacred journey, one set apart, dedicated to His service, not my own. Sacred Journey Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary offers this definition of sacred: sacred. 1a :…
Be Comforted in Your Pain (you are never alone)
“Don’t let them hurt me!” My young son’s words broke my heart. Although his immunizations were necessary, it wasn’t easy to listen to his cries. Through my nearly 23 years of parenting, I’ve found myself in the doctor’s office countless times with my children. Sometimes the visits have been pleasant, other times not so much.…
The Value of This Moment (don’t miss it!)
Whatever it looks like, the moment I’m in has value. When will I remember that? Up to my elbows in suds, I silently huffed about the lack of help I had around the house during this season. With the older two away at college and the youngest involved in high school, more of the household chores fell…
Time Spent Waiting Is Never Time Wasted
Sometimes God calls us to wait. Wait for healing. Wait for leading. Wait for fulfillment of a promise. I waited more than four years for my daughter to take her first step, even longer for her to say her first word. I waited many more years than that to get a glimpse of the plan…
Seven Key Principles for Cultivating Healthy Families
“You’re still not done?” My husband’s words met me while trying to finish up book work I had been addressing on and off all day. “The kids are home and needed me,” I snapped. “Then there’s laundry and supper and dishes. No, I’m not done!” A response entirely undeserved. Yikes! I had forgotten God’s admonition…
5 Reasons to Tuck Scripture into Your Heart
The warm water pelted my skin, washing away all the physical dirt. Yet I longed for a deeper cleaning, one that would also carry off the emotional grime from a long troubling day. I tried to sing; no hymn came to mind. I tried to pray; words failed me. My thoughts remained knotted around the day’s events. So…
3 Habits that Will Re-energize Your Spiritual Life
Instinctively I reached for my contact solution, withdrawing my hand quickly after realizing I had no need for it. It had been months since I wore contact lens, but the habit had become so ingrained I struggled to shake it. Habits are like that. They hold on tight, making us work to shake them off. Sometimes…
Six Reasons Not to Fear Growth
Although the means to obtaining it is not always desirable, growth is a wonderful end result. Growth occurs best when well watered, pruned, cultivated, and fertilized. Often requiring great effort and involving pain or discomfort. I’m fine with putting in effort, but I prefer to avoid the pain and discomfort part. Yet growth is the word I…
Growth: My 2015 One Word and Why I Hesitated Choosing It
This post was supposed to be written last Wednesday, in time for New Year’s Day, then Friday, the day after New Year’s. But I couldn’t write it. Every time I tried, one thing stopped me: I didn’t want to accept the One Word I feel compelled to adopt for 2015. This will be the fourth…
Three-Year Anniversary Giveaway – God is Gracious & Good!
{Be sure to stay with me all the way to the end for the Giveaway!} It’s sometimes difficult to be vulnerable. Sometimes people miscontrue the meaning of my words. Sometimes I feel like I have nothing to write. And sometimes I don’t know how to write what I know. Yet it’s also been a great blessing in many…
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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