I received a message from an acquaintance last week, asking how we are doing settling into our new home. It doesn’t feel too new. We’ve been here over 2 years, which is the second longest we’ve lived anywhere, in the 22 years we’ve been married, topped only by our 3.5 year home in Minneapolis. (Though… Continue reading Stability
It can be so easy to be overcome by darkness, to believe lies, when you are in a burdened season. You can hear bad news and quickly jump to all the what if’s, and just that simple you are overcome with even more grief. That is why it is important for friends and family to… Continue reading Share Truth to Bless a Burdened Family
I believe the best thing you can do for a family, especially one that is experiencing any type of burden, is pray. When people say they are praying for me, I don’t know if they realize, but I feel and know that that is a big gift. We serve a big God. He cares, he… Continue reading Pray for a Burdened Family
In January of this year, my son was diagnosed with cancer. It turned our world upside down and all of a sudden we were living day to day. Because of the aggressiveness of the cancer, we had to get treatments started right away. Every week from January 1 through the end of July, we had… Continue reading Introduction to Blessing a Burdened Family
Now that we had a home and knew we were accepted to seminary, things seemed more real. We now knew where we would be for the next 4 years of our lives, which was a totally new concept for us. If you know us at all, you know we have been moving almost every year and… Continue reading Quitting Homeschooling
Thanks for sticking with me this far. If you haven’t read my previous posts, you can catch up by seeing how we were Ready to Go, Staying, and Moving. Only God. That can really explain anything, right? He is why I breathe. He is why my brain can tell my fingers to move a certain… Continue reading Only God
We were ready to go, but he said to stay, and now we’re moving? Yep. When we decided to go with our local seminary, it wasn’t actually all up to us. It is a small seminary and they only take 18 new students per year, (another perk we liked). So, we had to apply and… Continue reading Moving
We were ready to go, but God said, stay. What else can you say but, okay. Okay, God, now what? This path we’ve been on has been a journey 6 years of my husband working full time and getting a Bachelor’s degree in Christian Ministry 1-2 year of intense searching for a pastoral job, while… Continue reading Staying
It’s amazing where life takes you, isn’t it? You spend days, sometimes months, and even sometimes years, wondering where God’s taking you. He’s always doing something, a million somethings every second, yet sometimes we don’t see the full effect for years. Our family has been going through huge transitions lately. Making it through the bulk… Continue reading Ready to Go
These are words that God poured out of me yesterday, after chatting with friends on Facebook about how important safety is in finding a home. In that conversation, a friend also pointed me to Flower Patch Farmgirl, who “just happened” to write this amazing post about contentment that same day and it really grabbed my heart too.… Continue reading Safe
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