Do you want your children to have a safe place of peace, a refuge, from the storms of life?

What would you say if Jesus asked you this?

Our individual paths to have may take different turns. But we will see the it was a kind and gracious path that Jesus led each of us on.

There is a fear that is healthy -  a humble awareness of what is exceedingly greater than us that captivates our hearts.

When circumstances in life move us, or better said, when God uses the circumstance in life to move us, He moves his tent with ours. 

Having little boxes to check off every day often took the joy from reading and made it a duty to accomplish.

Do you see how unsuspectingly a good desire became a prideful one? 

Suffering precedes glory. This was God’s plan from the beginning of time.

Mothering is a constant laying down of one’s life for another.  It often means not getting enough sleep. 

It was only then I realized that I was wearing an invisible melancholy shawl. I had the blues. The weepies. A gentle unsettledness. 

My mom used to say that growing old was not for the faint of heart.

The “good work” that God is going to bring to completion is primarily connected to the “partnership" the Philippians had with Paul.

On that road death was stumbling downhill while the author of life was moving upward.  “Behold!” Look and wonder - what a meeting this will

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God uses flawed people to reflect his glory and his saints will continue to be flawed until they see him in glory. 

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