Want to Make Some Changes Together? - He...

It’s a great time of year to make changes. There are changes happening all around us. The grass is beginning to go from dead and yellow to green and living. Soon the trees will start to bud and the tulips will come up from the ground. I am ready to make some changes in my life and I know there are other people like me. So I put it out there to see if anyone else wants to make some personal changes in hopes that we could encourage each other in the process. This is not a fancy program, just a girl who wants to do life with other people. It’s much more fun for me to go for...

Created for More...

I was sitting in an incredible message Sunday from Pastor Barry Boucher, who is also my Father in law. I began to think of how many times I have made excuses. I began to imagine if we as a church community walked in the fullness of the potential God created us with. Life is busy. Kids in sports and music lessons, homework, birthday parties, friends, both parents working, personal hobbies, a hot vacation every year Ect. Ect. Ect. We were destined for so much more. You were created for more. I was created for more. There is nothing wrong with those things. There is nothing wrong...

Symptoms?...

Do you know your growth symptoms? In my life one clear cut symptom is frustration. I notice things that need to change, and frustration begins to build on the inside. Experiencing frustration, in my life, can be a God inspired tool to initiate life, marital, parenting, or organizational change…if I allow it to work in my heart in a mature fashion. As I said the other day, if I don’t handle frustration in a mature manner I become a complaining machine, outwardly steady, inwardly stewing. Again, here is the big growth thought - no one around me needs to change in order...

What Do You Complain About?...

“When I became a man, I put away childish things.” At the beginning of January I felt God whisper something to me. The essence of this challenge was  its time to grow in a few areas in my life. For whatever the reason, I had been making excuses as to why I couldn’t grow. None of the excuses washed. Some were more valid that others, but at the end of the day, my excuses were fruitless. Through this up and down process I found myself spending more time complaining than changing. I wanted other things or people to change, and could complain with the best of them, but at...

Dave Ramsey…Part 2...

Keep in mind, that as painful as this is, for so many, we will see better days ahead.

Dave Ramsey…Part 1...

In light of the economy, I think it is worth it to watch these two interviews for some great perspective.

What Is Love...

Love comes from God. Love does not come by wishing and hoping and dreaming… it comes from God because God is love. It’s great to learn from others who have great marriages but it’s destructive for your future to compare yourself to someone else as a measuring stick and imagine that they don’t have the same problems that you do. Everyone has problems. Jason and I have problems, we have lots of problems, but we also have God and so do you… Listen to what 1 John 4: 8 &12  Says… 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love 12 if we love one...

An Unexpected Gift...

What I didn’t realize was happening is everything I ever wanted from Jason he was now able to give me. Let me give you a couple of examples. Jason started helping out around the house with no strings attached. He simply learned to read when I needed help and would pitch in without being asked.  He started giving me back rubs. I always told him how much I loved them and he would rarely do them before but once he felt the fullness of my acceptance it gave him permission to fully give himself to me. He desired to speak my language. I felt a freedom come to our relationship as...

The Power of Love...

My journey of learning to lean on Jason began with a journey with God of understanding the depth of his love for me.  Once I understood his love and received that love into my life – not because I earned it, or was worthy of it but simply because of Christ’s immeasurable grace available to me. As God’s love was being perfected in me I began to love in a way I never had before.  I started to see him with different eyes. I began to understand why he was the way he was and I started to appreciate him for it. I began to accept Jason in ways I never had before. Before that…...

The If Only Syndrome...

Song of Solomon 8:5 (ESV) Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. Lori and I had the “if only” syndrome when we first married. I love you, but would love you more if only… She would have compassion when I am sick. She would like sex more. She would like sex more often. She would like sex more often in different ways. Ok…I think you get the point, and that last one was a joke…sort of…you’ll never know But the point is that the “if only” was the elephant in our relationship that...