The House You're Building

Sisters and Seekers, I logged onto the blog today after a long absence-I am now helping write for a local women's ministry and in this season of life, don't get to my blog as much as I want to.  Saw I had 18 readers from Israel this week!  Welcome and hope we can connect!  As always feel free to comment or send me a message...seeing women from all over the world access this content is such a blessing to me! So why the sudden break from my hiatus?  This teacher/mom/writer/daughter of God is home for day 3 of an unexpected winter storm.  Where I live in the Pacific Northwest, we typically get snow on our mountains and rain in the lowlands.  This winter has been a bit different.  We were getting 1-2 feet of snow over a few days time and the community services that treat our roads are just not ready to handle it.  That, along with freezing temps and meandering hills make the roads treacherous.  God has given me the gift of slowing down and th...

Prepare Your Heart: Read Hebrews 12:5-11.   Journal of a time that the Lord disciplined you.   What was the result?   What things were added to your faith that couldn’t have been without the loving correction of the Lord? Discipline is a constant factor in my life.   As a classroom teacher of first graders, my primary job is to develop this trait in the students in my classroom.   Many of them don’t come from homes where self-control is a habit that is shaped in them.   I am also a mother and try to select with care the consequences that will change my children’s character.   Because I love them, I look ahead to the moments in life that they will have to make tough choices and pray that my influence will help them choose the narrow path.   As an athlete, physical discipline is a constant as I run and play soccer regularly.   There are always moments that I need to press on despite when I feel like giving up.   There is much...