Resist

verb

1. withstand the action or effect of.

“antibodies help us to resist infection”

2. refrain from doing or having (something tempting or unwise).

Accepting God’s Gifts and Seeing the Positives

I got emotional today. I went to the doctor for an evaluation for cataract surgery and I left crying. I sat in the office and was anywhere between 10–30 years younger than most people sitting in the room waiting. So that started my grumpy. I found…

Fear: Sin or Warning?

I just finished a Bible study on the advent season with other ladies from our church (including Kendall). In the last week of advent, we studied love. This study had an expectation to do a short devotional each day for 4 weeks. As we started the week on love, I mentally got a little stuck…

Attitude of Gratitude

Do you strive to have an attitude of gratitude? In the month of November, I was daily striving to keep my eyes open for…

God taps.

Some days God taps you on the shoulder and says “see.” Today was “some days.” Today, my sweet little Tate had to have tubes put into his…

Sometimes I need an attitude check on my perceptions of the behaviors of others. The best way I have found to do that is to look at what the person is saying and then:

A. Consider if I have ever had a simile attitude or said something like what has been said.

With a joyful heart

One of my favorite things about Christmas is reading Old Testament scripture that is a clear prophecy about the coming Messiah. The more I read, the more I put little Jesus checkboxes next to the verses that show he fulfills that prophecy. As a believer in Jesus Christ, it is mind-boggling to…

Dark Places of the Soul

I saw the below post by Connie Guinn and I can’t get my mind off the thought of “forgotten spaces of our soul.” We…

God’s Peace

When you think of God’s peace, what hits you? For me, it’s times when the only choice I had was to trust that God would see me through. Those days that felt so long, those nights that felt so dark, those moments that felt so destructive to my soul. Some were due to my own sin, some were due to other’s sin…

Comfortable Christmas?

I do not enjoy cold weather, I never have. I probably tolerate it more now than ever before in my life but I’m just not a fan. My feet are cold even in the summertime! Tonight, we will be experiencing cold across the country unlike what we are used to. This storm has been labeled the…