How often do you feel like you have lost control of your busy life? I am dealing with that right now and trying to get my priorities straightened back out. The enemy will do his best to keep us from our calling in life but we have to fight back. One way God has […]
5 Ways to Handle Mistakes in Marriage With Love and Grace
Can we be honest with each other? As a godly wife, in a Christian marriage, there are days I struggle with love and respect, and forgiveness. We both make mistakes in marriage. There are seasons when those mistakes threaten to take us down hard. Today we will look closely at a phrase in 1 Corinthians […]
Will You Trust That God Is Your Strength in Hard Times?
What do you turn to for strength when times are hard? We know the church answer is God, but let’s take off the mask and be real with each other. When life is hard, I turn to food for comfort, books for wisdom, and myself for strength far more often than I look to God. […]
Complete Surrender to God Is Hard Without This
Do you ever hold things back from God? Worry over things you know – you know – God can handle? That is where I am living in this season of life. I give things to God only to take them back again. All year the Lord has been saying, “Let go, give Me everything”. And […]
10 Strategies to Avoid Communication Breakdown in Marriage
How do you prevent communication breakdown in a relationship? Communication in marriage – even a Christian marriage – can be tricky? As I counsel and mentor wives, I hear this listed as the biggest struggle in their marriage 90% of the time. Hands down, wives doing marriage God’s way long to improve communication. So today […]
How To Trust That God Is for You to Be Still & Not Fear
Does it ever feel like it’s you against the world? It sounds almost childish to say out loud, but most of my life it’s felt like that. People don’t understand me or include me and they sure aren’t for me. Can you relate? Maybe it’s the reserved introvert inside of me, but I believe loneliness […]
How to Stay Positive In a Marriage Relationship: Love Thinks No Evil
Relationships are a lot of hard work. When the new wears off it can be all to easy to fall into bad habits. The way we think affects every part of our life and slipping into negative thinking can destroy a relationship. Learning how to stay positive in a marriage relationship can go a long […]
I Failed God and God Failed Me: Learning To Be Still
Are we allowed to talk about failure and God as Christians? I feel like this topic is a bit taboo. God is good, God is great and that is where we are supposed to focus. The times I failed God are as real as the times I felt God failed me. Do we hide the […]
Fighting Anger in Marriage: Love Is Not Easily Provoked
Today marks 17 years of marriage to a wonderful Christian man. Those 17 years have not all been wonderful, but we are growing and learning so much along the journey. One issue we struggled with for the first 10-12 years was anger in marriage! He wanted to win. I wanted to win. We both lost […]
34 Christian Books About Easter For All Ages
Easter is coming and one way we get our hearts and minds ready is through books. Today I am going to share a list of my favorite books about Easter to help you get ready as well! Why should you have books about Easter in your home? Maybe you are not a reader… It’s hard […]
