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When You Have More Questions than Answers
Do you have a seemingly never-ending stream of questions you are seeking answers to? Me too. One question leads to another and the answers seem elusive. It’s not even the big why’s I’m trying to answer but the smaller ones: What do I do now? and What direction is best? and How am I supposed to…
Three Things to Consider When Suffering Makes an Appearance
As believers who love the Lord and long to share in His resurrection, we know we must share in His suffering as well. Most of us, though, want to choose the form our suffering will take. We plan, scheme, beg and bargain to avoid the worst of the suffering. A little bit of hardship is okay, even expected. A brief financial struggle.…
When the Burden You’re Asked to Carry Is Far Too Heavy
Sometimes we’re tasked with carrying a burden too heavy to lift. It’s in those impossible assignments where we discover we’re not alone. Impossible Burden When God asked me to take on the job of parenting a child with special needs, I felt inadequate for the task at hand. My awareness of that inadequacy has increased as my daughter has…
How to be an Influencer (a lesson I didn’t want to learn)
Seven hundred women prepare to make their way to Concord, NC, this week for Proverbs 31 Ministries’ She Speaks conference (for aspiring Christian influencers). I won’t be among them. One minute I’m fine with that, the next my heart longs to be attending. Yet I know this door has been closed to me this year. As I…
7 Steps to Growing a More Humble Heart
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves” (Philippians 2:3). I don’t think of myself as a selfish or conceited person. I’d venture to guess many of us don’t. Yet the Apostle Paul felt the need to warn about the temptation in his letter to the Philippians.…
When Change Threatens to Zap Your Joy
Change can zap your joy, until you remember what each future moment holds: more Christ. Lately, I’ve been feeling sad more often. Plainly and simply sad. There’s no big catastrophe to bring it on. Oh sure, there are always a few hiccups in my days, but nothing has gone horribly wrong in the recent past.…
What To Do When You Feel Inadequate and Overwhelmed
My daughter turned 18 yesterday (2016), but I received the greater gift. Each year I do. Year after year I’m blessed with the love, joy and innocence of this precious young lady. And I’m incredibly grateful. Yet, at the same time, I feel totally inadequate for stewarding this precious treasure I’ve been entrusted with. Inadequate…
When You Are Desperate for Jesus to Act on Your Behalf
Even when an answer to prayer is a long time coming, we can trust God is working behind the scenes. Desperate for an Answer Jesus says “ask Me anything in My name, I will do it” (John 14:14). I’m asking. I’m beseeching. I’m pleading. And I’m persistent. And I certainly think it would be a prayer…
I Will, Will You? (a faith prayer)
I want to follow God wherever He asks me to go, but it can be so hard. In the middle of chaos and the weariness of life, I can forget that it’s always safe to say “I will” to God. That’s where a faith prayer can be helpful. “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But…
When the Unexpected Is Breaking You
God often uses the unexpected and the unwanted to bring about the best in our lives. But it requires us to let go first. Let go of our expectations. Let go of our perceptions. Let go of our perceived control. And then to open our hearts to receive the fullness of what He has for us.…
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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