Suffering
Presenting a Rosy Picture of Life May Be Harmful
Every Thursday in the month of August, I’m giving away a book! Don’t miss this third giveaway in celebration of my 4-year blogging anniversary. Read all the way to the bottom to enter to win a Bible for a young lady in your life! Too often as Christians we believe life should be rosy, because…
How to Reclaim Your Day When the Unexpected Happens
Dropping to my knees, I struggled to regain composure. A Monday morning, particularly this Monday morning, should not start this way. The night before I had just returned from a four-day convention. I needed today to go as planned. But my daughter delivered the unexpected by messing her bed. Not an uncommon experience, but one I…
Live Bountifully in a Messy Life
I’d like to offer a warm welcome to the visitors popping in from Suzie Eller’s blog. I invite you to take a few minutes and look around. You may want to start with my About Page. My prayer is that you find something on this site that encourages and inspires you to tap into God’s amazing…
Do We Really Mean “Amen”?
A Prayer for Healing “I’m scared.” My sister’s strained voice found me returning from vacation. She described a joyous time turned very wrong. Pregnant with twins, her body was failing her and the little ones—she very sick and one baby dying in utero. Bed rest, medicine, and prayer failed to remedy the situation. I arrived…
When Things Look Bleak and Ugly: 3 Reasons to Walk in Faith Not by Sight
Even when we know a truth, sometimes we struggle to accept the reality of it. Coming back from our honeymoon, my husband and I swung through Yellowstone National Park. Earlier that summer, a forest fire had raged through a large section of the park. Dave and I were both educated as fish and wildlife biologists. We knew the…
Life Will Not Be Easy and Comfortable: the Way Suffering Is Good
It’s difficult to accept suffering as a given, but it is. Whether we like it or not, God allows it, even ordains it. Yet who doesn’t do everything in their power to avoid it? I did. I tried to convince God that our family wasn’t equipped to handle a child with special needs. I pleaded for…
Find Peace in the Midst of the Messy (Michele Cushatt’s Undone book review & giveaway)
More often than not, life doesn’t roll the way we expect. Yet some of us (yes, I’m guilty), try to force it to conform to our belief of how it should be. We try to control the inner workings and the outcomes. We wear ourselves out by trying to reconcile our idea of what should be to the…
The One Thing that Remains, Even When Nothing Is Left
My heart aches for so many whose worlds are shattering into a thousand pieces today. Those who are walking through a dense fog that refuses to lift. Those for whom the next breath seems all but impossible. Because I understand. I’ve been there. I’ll likely be there again. Live long enough, and we all experience it: …
When Human Understanding Fails: Stewarding God’s Grace
I’m complaining about lack of snow and a messy house; she’s noticing the intriguing nuances of the gray sky. I’m wrestling over what to fix for supper; she’s wrestling with having the strength to be present for her littles. I’m praying for no flu or cold to strike; she’s praying for pain management so she…
I Want To Suffer Well: Inspiring Stories of Being Met and Kept
Some of us suffer in our daily living, but die peacefully. Some of us walk a relatively easy earthly path but suffer in our dying. Some of us face both. As of late I’ve been exposed to more stories of suffering than usual. And it struck me that there are two ways to deal with…
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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