In the mess
I will be real and I will feel life and I will be Naaman who bends the knee, enters the muddy waters of the emotions. True lament is the bold faith that trusts Perfect Love enough to feel and cry authentic. Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts
Bipolar Mama: Talking about the best and the worst, and the man who’s loved me through it at the mighty.com today
http://themighty.com/2015/05/to-the-husband-who-loved-me-at-my-best-and-my-worst/
When the Lord isn’t willing and the hardwoods have to go
So, when the Lord's not willing, and the week's been chopped up down to the concrete, pour yourself a cup of tea and run a bubble bath and cry into the suds if you have to.
Refining My Role as Wife (Lessons from the Time Warp Wife’s new book)
Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used…
Saint Wannabe
For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Romans 7:19-20 Since I was a little girl, I aspired to holiness like my brother aspired to be a professional football player. Religion seemed so simple: follow the rules, life goes great, you go to heaven. And, I was great at following the rules! It just came naturally to me, kind of like a talent. But there are by-products to a character fastened to rigidity: a prideful heart filled with…
