Hope
How To Laugh and Live Through Your Winter Season
Are the weight of your days crushing you? Do you feel like you are stuck in a bleak, barren winter season? It doesn’t have to be that way. There is hope. Even a frozen seemingly lifeless wasteland has purpose. In 2004, I implemented our family’s first annual Winterfest. It’s goal? To demonstrate the joy that can come…
Are You Being Encouraged?
If you’ve been following my writing for long, you’ve heard me mention that I mess up sometimes. Well, okay, I mess up a lot. In my marriage, in raising my children, in my Spiritual life. Photo courtesy of danabooo God says do not envy … I do. Dr. James Dobson says not to yell at your…
How To Believe When There is No Hope
Some days I get tired of the digging. I get tired of digging out of the many holes I find myself in. Financial. Marital. Parental. Physical. Mental. Emotional. And worse, some days those “-al” holes cave in, burying me in mounds of dirt. Stifling and suffocating, the situation appears helpless … hopeless. I know you’ve…
[From the Archives] Cry, “Abba, Father”
I pray this post from the archives blesses you. I’m taking some time off from creating new content to refocus and spend time with family. God willing, I’ll be back January 2 with new posts and a new look. _________________ The word floated down the hall. A single word, spoken so soft and sweetly. “Mama.” One word…
Celebrating the Ultimate Washing
The rustle of the dry leaves taunt me. Dirty brown and dull gray assault my eyes. What I want is the pure white of snow. A clean covering that makes all sparkle. A blanket of brilliance that covers up the ugly and rough. It’s not really the look of the outside landscape I’m looking…
An Everlasting Flicker of Hope
Candles flicker, threatening, … eventually their light will go out. But the Light of Christ will never be extinguished. We may lose sight of it, but it still is burning, an Everlasting Flicker chasing the shadows from every corner. >>>>>> Searching for a Glimmer of Light It is with heavy hearts we watch the darkness…
Hope in the Aftermath of Election Day
(This post was written after the 2012 election, not 2016. I feel differently about the results this year; however, the unrest still grieves me. The heart of this article still pertains … and always will.) I must admit, I am grieved by election day results. This is not how I had hoped or prayed it…
“I’m so tired of hearing about bad things!” (Hope)
Have you listened to the news lately? It’s not very uplifting. No matter which way we turn sadness, horror, violence, and insanity greet us. I see it in the stories of the innocent lives snuffed out in the name of convenience. The endless wars. The street shootings and beatings. The name calling and mudslinging. The…
Missing the Obvious
I should have been working. But it was a “just-right,” hot, lazy day to be in the water. Lake, pool, stream; it didn’t matter as long as it held water. And my son was urging me to play with him. Reluctantly, I agreed. Quickly dressing in our bathing suits, Rachel, Joey and I trekked the…
Sticking Your Head In a Skunk’s Hole (Key to Being Sin Less)
Have you ever stuck your head in a skunk’s hole? No, really, think about it! We Fail in Our Strength Have you ever done something unwise, something for which you know better, something you’ve been warned not to do? I have, more times than I like to admit. Likely, we all have. In honor of…
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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