Sometimes, the way we prefer to be loved isn’t exactly the right fit for our kids, our friends, even our spouses. On learning to love in another “language.”
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Have I truly learned to wait, to be content to let God be God and surrender our will? Have any of us?
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Just in time for those Thanksgiving “discussions,” here’s a compilation of 18 blogs I’ve written in the last few years on representing Jesus by loving each other well.
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They call her “Jekyll and Hyde” and “psycho kitty.” Still, I love her. And God loves us in spite of our own mean-kitty ways, too. Love lessons I’ve learned from my mean kitty.
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Sometimes in life, we find ourselves on unstable ground. We flounder, grasping for help—a more stable rock to plant our foot, a sturdy branch to haul ourselves back up. But with God, our footing is always certain.
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I didn’t see what she saw, but oh, I wish I had. On lessons I learned from a preschooler on childlike faith.
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Here, I’ve compiled a list of some of the blogs (19 in all) I’ve written over the last few years on the comfort and peace I’ve come to know from trusting in God’s promises. God has a plan, a proverbial big picture, and we have only to recognize it and bring ourselves into alignment with it. Out of that trust and obedience we can experience the most powerful and blissful joy.
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I wanted to go on that trip so badly—yet I couldn’t. I was frustrated and relieved and mad, all at the same time. Was I picking the mundane over the better choice? Have you been in my shoes?
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Consider today whether God is making you wait for a reason. Maybe He’s preparing your heart, or someone else’s. Maybe He’s orchestrating the exact, perfect details so the thing planned will be better than we can possibly imagine. Maybe we’re not ready yet. Maybe he’s trying to prevent a disaster caused by the rushing.
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