Living God's plan for your life
Detailed plans made the difference
I admit, I’ve been energized by my children being back in school. Before you think that I just want them out of here, that’s not really the case at all. I do miss them when they are gone and actually really miss our home school years—I wouldn’t trade those years for...
Who will you be spiritually in one year?
Can you describe the man or woman you desire to be spiritually in one year? What about in ten years? Have you ever taken time to think about who you want to be in the future? I mean to really envision what the future “you” will be like? I’ve thought about that for...
Where are you going and how do you get there?
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” “I don’t much care where –” “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Where are you going in life and how do...
Your Calling Journey
Do you know what your calling in life is? Could you state it right now from memory in just a phrase or sentence? Many people think that their “calling” is a one-time event in which they will be given a special life assignment by God and then should be able to run...
Marriage recipe
Do you have a recipe for your marriage? A great recipe will result in overall pleasure in your relationship and your needs being met. Do you know which ingredients it takes for your marriage to be healthy, strong, and pleasurable? Each marriage is unique and will...
Self-care
What do you do for self-care? —taking time for yourself, something that energizes you, maybe relaxes you or helps you to feel more centered and balanced, renews you spiritually……. If you had to rate your “self-care” on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the best, what...
The hardest thing (part 4)
I told our story about making the hard decision to leave the mission field in the previous 3 posts (part 1, part 2, and part 3). So…………… let’s take this focus off of me and look at how God can use these types of experiences. I don’t ever want it to come across as...
The hardest thing (part 3)
Leaving the mission field was harder than going to the field, as I described in the previous 2 posts (part 1 and part 2). I won’t go into all the details of the next few months, but we really had no idea how much of an impact moving back to my hometown would have on...
The hardest thing (part 2)
As I said in my previous post ( part 1) , the hardest thing we ever did wasn’t going to the mission field, but leaving the mission field. We honestly had no intentions of ever leaving. We went to seminary specifically to work towards serving as career...
The hardest thing (part 1)
What is the hardest thing God has ever had you do? Do you know what it is? Did something come to mind easily? (or does everything seem hard….) We left a job with the post office to move to seminary with 3 boys and a baby on the way. The transfer to the post office...
