When You Need God to Fix It

What if you have something God isn’t fixing? A relationship? A disease? Find out what to do when restoration isn’t coming…… {Taken from Day 5 of my Restoration devotional on the Thrive Moms app.} A couple of years ago my two oldest boys asked for a hammer for Christmas. It was the craziest thing, but not surprising. They had seen their daddy work around the house. I could see their little minds imagining all kinds of things they could “hammer.”…

What Can You Do For God?

Do you feel stuck and like you can’t do anything for God? I want to encourage you with something I recently shared with my Bible study girls a few weeks ago. Working on the Sidelines In January of this year I had the amazing privileged to join a medical team traveling to Honduras to help the physical and ultimately the spiritual needs of a small community. My husband is a doctor, but I am a teacher and currently just stay at…

How to Write Out the Bible

My engagement ring taught me why writing scripture is vital to Bible study. When my husband was shopping for engagement rings he traveled to various jewelers around town looking for the “one.” I had given him one request. I wanted a certain cut called a “radiant cut.” The diamond was square shaped, but if you looked very closely you could see a round center. He had to shop smaller, specialized jewelers to find it. The cut was the only thing…

What If We Took God At His Word?

  On the first day of spring it snowed. Welcome to the Appalachian mountains. West Virginia holds four fluid seasons, but I’m ready for spring. Saying goodbye to winter with its cold, dark nights, and germs. Winter has been long this year. Not necessarily super cold or lots and lots of snow, but it seems like it started early in October and now into the later part of March we are shoveling the white stuff off of our driveway again….