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...

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 My grace is all you need, my power works best in weakness.   So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.   That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ.   For when I am weak, then I am strong.” (NLT) What a week.   What a blindside.   How much do we go walking through our Christian, worship, fellowship, praying, Bible-reading lives and forget to listen to God.   To pay attention to the basic things in our curious search for “higher-truth.”   I put that in quotes because I ate humble pie this week.   With a whipped cream topping of, “you missed the whole point.” I know my gift, teaching and what I am called to do, yet I did it without love. Ironic (no) that this week I was teaching the love chapter in the Bible-1 Corinthians 13.   The one you always hear at weddings. ...