Good Morning Girls Blogging Through the Bible
I don’t know about you, but life has been bringing a lot of pressure lately. I feel like what I could normally handle just fine is twice as hard and taking twice as long. Maybe it’s just that I’m getting old. Whatever the reason, I am finding it more and more necessary to find that…
I grew up in the 80s, in one of (if not the) wealthiest generations in all of history. It was a time when people were buying more and bigger cars, more and bigger televisions and appliances, owning computers, buying and building bigger houses, going on luxury vacations… The idea of “super-sized” was introduced, and truly…
My 10-year old son always has something in his hand. It’s been like this since he was an early toddler. It started out with Thomas the Train. He never went anywhere without Thomas, never slept without Thomas, never ate without Thomas. As he grew, the thing in his hand changed to whatever his favorite character…
Did you know there is a distinct difference between joy and happiness? I believe it is vital, not just good and not just important, but vital for every Christian to understand the difference between joy and happiness and realize that God’s ultimate goal isn’t for us to be happy. We are commanded to be joyful,…
One of the biggest distortions of Christianity in the past century has been that if we serve God, then He should keep us from experiencing tribulation. There are those whose faith has been shipwrecked the moment they got a cancer diagnosis or had a child born with a disability; because they were somehow led to…
I’ll never forget the day I learned the difference between happiness and joy. A woman was holding a balloon to represent happiness. Each time something good happened to make a person happy she’d blow into the balloon. And on your way home from work, your happiness balloon is nicely filled. But all it takes is…
