NEW BLOG ADDRESS!!!

I am switching this blog over to WordPress, so here is the link. All new posts will be there instead of here on Blogger.

Phone a Friend

Here is a blog post that encourages us to do something that I am pretty sure we don not do enough - seek out others for accountability and prayer in our day-to-day life situations.  Just a good reminder to me for the next time I am tempted to lose my temper and respond in impatience and exasperation towards my children. 

I am so very thankful for the wonderful Christian friends the Lord has brought into my life. He has been kind to grow friendships that are an integral part of His work to make me more like Him.

Recently, I used one of my “phone a friends” in a now humorous situation. But at the time it was a bit stressful. My youngest and her hair again…here’s what happened.

Read the entire post here.  

Yelling at My Kids

And here's a very helpful article on how real personal change takes place in our hearts and lives.  . 

An essential part of our growth and change as a child of God is coming to understand how God uses our daily struggles to bring about change in our hearts and our lives. In the midst of our struggles, we don’t naturally connect the ways we think, feel, and act with our ultimate destination of life in heaven with Christ. It takes the work of the Holy Spirit to help us bridge the gap and connect our struggles to our future in eternity.

Positive personal change takes place when our dream of change lines up with God’s purposes for change. Keeping eternity in view as we go about our daily lives gives us a broader perspective and gives us hope for change in the midst of our difficult situations and relationships.

This article gives a very practical example of how a person can look critically at her own behavior, then with the help of the Holy Spirit, change that behavior for the glory of God.

Read the rest here.  

Do You Love Your Spouse?

 Here is a blog post on a chapter from Paul David Tripp's new book on marriage, What Did You Expect? Redeeming the Realities of Marriage.  Wow!  May the Lord help me to be more like Christ! 

What is love?

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving.

He then brings out several points of what this looks like in day-to-day life.  Very helpful!   I have been meaning to get the book and think this may spur me on to do so.