Christian Living in the Real World
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com The other day I sitting at a traffic light and over on the other side of the road I saw a woman jogging. She started slowing down and came to a stop and I thought she must be tired. However she wasn't tired. She was having a seizure. She started …
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This morning I woke up anxious and worried about my older son. He's completing an internship this summer in another state. I had no specific reason for these thoughts. They started to grow so much that I believed I was going to have a panic attack. I called my husband and told him what was happening …
As I was driving into work this morning I started thinking why is it so hard to be grateful. In the midst of turmoil do you continue to praise God and be thankful or do you become angry and turn away? I have been working hard to engage in the former but sometimes it is so difficult. …
I like to practice yoga and some of the most challenging poses are the ones that require balance. If you try tree pose, which is pictured, you will need to focus in on one point because this helps maintain stability. Looking away will cause you to waver or fall out of the pose. This is …
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com This is a post from the website of a dear friend of mine and her daughter. It speaks to how mental health concerns can impact our lives. Unfortunately it isn't talked about very much especially in Christian circles. However I would like to see this change. It's nothing to be …
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Matthew 7: 3-5 reads "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother 'Let me take the speck out of your eye' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? …
This post is going to be short and sweet. When you have the opportunity to be a peacemaker and insert wisdom into chaos, please do so. Use your words to do good and not harm. Don't be hypocritical and point out how horrid one person's behavior is and then turn around and engage in the …
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When we are experiencing difficulty everything can look dark and gloomy. Once I was at the airport and the weather was bad. It was early in the morning so it was dark anyway but in addition it was snowing. As I waited for my plane to be de-iced the excitement about my trip began to …
It's hard to believe that we are less than twenty-three days from Christmas. "What happened to the year?" I ask myself as I am sure many other people have. I mean I can still see in my mind me and my family sitting around the tree in the living room last year opening our gifts. …