I’m so thrilled to have Jennifer guest posting today. Her insights into God’s Word are amazing. Enjoy and give her a follow! Before Fred and I were married we spent a week in Brazil doing mission work. We worked at a school, did construction work, and helped with several other things. His brother lived in Brazil at the time, so we decided to stay an extra week with him. He lived in a coastal city called Fortaleza. (If you are…
One Monday morning I felt all the Monday-Feelings. I woke up and drank from the same coffee cup. I got their lunches ready, like I do every Monday morning. I ate a boring breakfast, and fixed cereal again for the kids. We got in the car and we drove the same road we’ve driven every morning for the entire school year. How I do keep going, when life is so boring? How do I find excitement each afternoon, trying to…
How do I remember eternity, when I’m stuck in the ordinary and consumed with the daily tasks and to-do lists? The big thoughts of scripture are easy to see when we read the Bible. We even feel a stir of hope in our hearts when we hear them preached on Sundays. How do we live, though in the middle of our present with a view of something we’ve never seen? I’ve always admired that passage in Hebrews which talks about…
Do you want to know the secret of how to get everything done? You don’t. You can’t do it all. In fact, we want to do it all, but let’s face it: we just can’t. And feelings of guilt plague us because we think, “Well, she gets it all done.” No. No she doesn’t. The woman you are comparing yourself to doesn’t get it all done. She doesn’t always have a clean house, folded laundry, or well-behaved kids. She doesn’t have…