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Contentment

I never would have guessed that I would be writing about contentment when I am in a season where so much is swirling around me as open ended, but that is where I find myself. It's amazing and so different than how I have been in seasons like this previously. I was sharing with a friend today at the #ifconference2018 that it's like standing in the midst of the storm walking on the water, my eyes are firmly planted on Jesus and seeking Him with each next step, but also knowing and feeling the storm and winds and rain lash all around me. The beauty is that I am not concerned enough by the storm to look away from Him. He is all I need.  I am realizing that all my needs have been fully met and there is nothing I lack. When I stand firmly rooted in Christ Jesus, it brings total peace. In a blog  post  I read earlier this week, the author shared a similar sentiment about looking for a relationship or a person as something that completes us as Jerry Maguire had told his pers...

Iron Sharpens Iron

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17, ESV I find it so encouraging to see God at work in my life. To know His hand is on me in the midst of the circumstances and continuing to show me how He intends to use this time to continue to build and hone the woman He purposes me to be for the present and the future plans He has for me. I love that I don't know what it looks like, but can rest in the trust that He continues to remold me as He sees fit (Jer 18:4). I know His hands are the only ones I can put my trust in especially when the place I find myself in says that the tomb is empty. Resurrection in coming. I shared that sentiment with my dear friend, Vern, one of the team's supervisors for which I am responsible, as he asked how I am doing today. We have become the iron that sharpens the iron of the other. As we have had opportunity to share not just the challenges within our workplace and team with one another, but our hearts and personal lives...

A New Start

All day today--and for so long before this that I can't even tell you when it first began--God has been trying to get me to let go. To trust him. To turn to him. To embrace his Truth. Lysa TerKeurst who is the President and co-founder of Proverbs 31 Ministry as well as the NYT Best Selling author of Made to Crave which is a book I am reading about "satisfying your deepest desire with God and not food", writes things that speak to me. I have read her book "Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl" (which I am ALL about!) and "What Happens When Women Walk in Faith" (okay, I didn't finish this one because it required work my heart wasn't yet ready to do and my mind wasn't ready to wrap around it yet). Lysa speaks with honesty and truth--from the Bible and her real life. She isn't perfect and doesn't pretend to be. I like real because I can relate. It reminds me that I don't have to be perfect to live by God's grace and mer...