I admit, finding contentment has not come easily for me. I had certain desires and expectations for my life, and when those did not come to pass; I began to struggle with contentment. If you are a planner or organizer like me, you already have your entire life mapped out ...
Read More »What’s in the Garden of Your Heart?
In the devotional book, Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace In His Presence, author Sarah Young describes the heart as a garden, a place where Christ takes up residence when we accept Him into our lives. Our hearts are much like a garden in another way: predators look for a way in, and sometimes they get ...
Read More »Scared of Death? Take God’s View
Do you ever think about dying? Most of us have thought about our own death or the death of someone close to us. And for those of us who have experienced the loss of someone close, days following our loss can make us feel as if the sun should not ...
Read More »Is It Possible for God to Use the Dregs?
Somedays I feel like one of the dregs of society. I’m not successful enough. Thin enough. Woman enough. Christian enough. I feel like trash. I feel like giving up, but one thing that helps me is to look at the characters of the Bible and remember how God used other ...
Read More »How Important is Sexual Compatibility?
Sex is a gift from God, and He commands us to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28), so what makes it a sin? Sex can be seen along the same lines as gluttony and drunkenness which makes it become a form of idolatry. Society claims that we have to be sexually ...
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