Tag: Trust God
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How to Find Rest that Improves Your Life and Relationships
Have you caught up on the rest you’ve desperately needed during your community’s quarantines this past year? With all the hanging out in our homes and away from our friends and coworkers, you’d think we would just feel so rested and refueled. 😉 But, like everything else that’s happened in 2020, we’ve been left feeling…
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5 Inspiring Examples of Perseverance in the Bible
I’m excited to have Landen Melton as my guest today—offering inspiration from the Bible on how we can persevere like Job, Jeremiah, Apostle Paul, the Persistent Widow and Jesus. What does the word perseverance mean to you? Perhaps you haven’t had to endure a lot of life’s ups and downs. Perseverance might not mean much to…
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How Jesus Helps Us to Navigate Suffering
Have you ever faced a season of suffering in life or marriage that left you wondering how or where to navigate out of the darkness? If you’ve lived for any time at all, you probably have! Difficulties, injustices, trials and pain come to all of us at one time or another. Today I’m excited and…
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Blended Families – Biblical Love in Action
Today I’m excited to introduce you to blogger Donna Reidland, who is my guest today and is sharing about how to biblically navigate a blended family. Read her bio below to find more about her and be sure to make her feel welcome by sharing, commenting and pinning her post to all your favorite spots!…
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5 Ways to Love Your Man When He Doesn’t Listen
Have you ever found yourself sharing something really close to your heart with your mate, only to realize he or she is far, far away? Not really listening at all? Ouch! In my marriage, this has been done to me and, quite frankly, done by me to my husband more times than I can count! It’s so easy to…
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7 Ways to Develop Empathy and Gain Insight into Your Mate
Have you ever struggled to truly understand your mate’s feelings—feeling empathy for what he/she is going through? I sure have! 😉 But it’s important to examine this important responsibility from every angle. So, first off … What exactly is empathy? Empathy is the ability to come alongside someone, and not only understand a person’s point…
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The Unfair Task of Making God Priority Over Your Mate
Ever find yourself frustrated or even embarrassed by your mate’s devotion to God? Or maybe it’s your own spiritual fervor that your mate feels bothered and/or intimidated by. Maybe you both feel like your marriage is faltering, even though you’ve focused intense energy on each other and your family. So it just doesn’t add up…
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How Long Should I Extend Grace in Marriage? And Linkup
I ended last week’s post in the series, The Many Faces of Grace, with this question: When is it unhealthy or “enabling” to overlook an insult or sin in my spouse (or other offender)? I think the questions to consider in this kind of situation are: Is it destructive to one or more relationships? (Creating…
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What Extending Grace Looks like in Marriage – Plus Linkup
One of the things that has often confounded me is, when do I extend grace? Is it all the time? And what does grace even look like, especially in marriage? I think of grace like forgiveness—letting something go. After all, the Lord certainly has let go of the need to punish me for my sin—dying…
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Purging Pride And Linkup is Back!
As many of you know, my hubby Gary and I have wanted to get our house ready to put on the market for quite some time (we’re empty-nesters who desperately need to downsize). So I pulled away from “everything”—including blogging—for the month of June to get our house in shape for that big day that…
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