[I’m following the Compassion Bloggers’ Tanzania trip this week. Click here if you want to see all the my Tanzania trip posts.] “The Nester” got to meet her sponsored 15-year-old yesterday. You can read her whole post if you like, but I want to share the second half. I want to know, specifically, if what …
As this month of Thanksgiving winds to a close, and we head into the Christmas season (with all its joys and stress and celebration and depression, depending on who you are)… I’ve had it on my heart to share a reminder of what really matters. You see, most of us have a tendency to get …
I’m not posting much today. Just a video and a question. The question is this. Have you ever been thankful because the fish swimming through your flooded home provided the meal you needed that day?
I’ve had David on the mind lately–David the king, outlaw, poet, shepherd, warrior, murderer, seeker, and worshiper. What is it, exactly, that made him “a man after God’s own heart?” It couldn’t have been his righteousness…anything he did, for we all know how often David screwed up. I love the Psalms. It is, I think, …
It’s Monday–my choice to start my week with gratitude instead of complaining. As I count toward 1000, I’m realizing why Ann found this process of counting God’s gifts so life-changing. You know those times we’ve all shared in church, or before dinner at Thanksgiving, where everyone takes a turn thanking God? Sometimes we state the …
The Bible is full of scriptures that hint about how powerful praise and thanks are…that “attitude of gratitude” that we’ve all heard about. There are verses that say that the lack of thanks leads to unrighteousness. God ordained sacrifices of thanksgiving, which, interestingly enough, were tied into peace offerings. There’s a connection, for Paul said …
Yesterday, I had one of “those days.” You know they’re like. Nothing seems to go right, and somehow all the little things that didn’t go right affect you more than the things that did go right. And even though you’re sure that more went right than wrong, it’s all you can do to think of …
(In a post this past summer, I wrote a little about the Five Love Languages, as written about by Gary Chapman in The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts. I explained how I found myself wondering if they apply to our relationship with God. This is the sixth of what turned out …
Yesterday, I caught up on a new friend’s blog. There was so much there that I spent two hours reading, re-reading, thinking, praying, and realizing things that I haven’t thought about in quite the same way she did. This morning, however, God brought one specific portion back to mind as I woke up. This is …