We are in a new season of life. Our looks have changed, our occupations have changed. It seems as if disruptions are coming back-to-back in my life. I just want to go back to the way it was. Makes me want to grit my teeth! But God has new plans for us in this new …
New Year’s resolutions are made each year by almost seventy-five percent of adults. We evaluate where we are and where we want to go. It’s a time of introspection and declaration. But why spend just one day being intentional? Why not make resolutions for each of the 365 new days ahead of us?
We’re in the season of Advent because it’s almost Christmas. But some of us are in our own personal season of advent, a season of waiting for something new to happen. Are you in the middle of impossible? Are you looking for an escape hatch? This is just the moment when reaching out to God …
Do you have a plan for your marriage? When we married we had all sorts of plans. Little did we know, God had plans too. We had no idea how significant God’s plans were.
Heaven’s dream for us is to become God’s Masterpiece, no matter what our struggles are, what occurs in our lives, and where we find ourselves. When we tie the knot we imagine happily ever after. But sometimes things don’t turn out the way we expected. How can we turn this around to become God’s Masterpiece?
Wedding vows in sickness and in health … those vows we took when we were such babies. We were madly in love, eager to get started adulting. The wedding vows were dutifully repeated before God, family, and friends. We had no idea what we were promising.
We didn’t need any marriage education. It was 1976, we were madly in love and planning our wedding. We met in college and were planning on grad school within a year. Who needs more education? Let’s get on with life!
Parenting changed me in ways I never expected. I pictured my children being molded into wonderful humans as they grew up. That did happen, but my surprise was how God transformed me in the process.
