If we can just love others and live the life Jesus called us to live – giving, serving, doing – we would make an impact; right here, right now.
We’re OK with emulating a Jesus that gets plaques and awards and recognition. But what about the Jesus that looks like the guy who lives under the bridge? Not many of us are willing to go there.
Bad days are inevitable. There are times when the last thing I feel is close to God. There are days when all I want to do is hid under my covers and hope everyone forgets about me.
We are meant to be LIGHT. LIGHT, not darkness. We are meant to lift people up, not tear them down. The words, the actual letters that form the words are not the darkness; it’s the meaning, the intention behind them.
Please welcome my guest blogger and dear friend, Cheri Couch Brorsen – I cried when I first read this post, not because of the girl with the shoe, but because I feel that frustration so so so often…. I♥ Cheri more than she knows and although we’ve never met in real life, we walk a path together as sisters in Christ with real joy, struggles, tears and chocolate. Oh, and if you don’t know Cheri, you’ve not laughed as hard as you could.
Do you have a life verse? Some call it a theme, but whatever you call it, it’s the verse that you God gives you that He needs you to work on – for a defined or undefined period of time.
These are just a few of the advantages of being sick. And if you’ve been sick for a long time—let’s say in a messy marriage kind of way—then it can be just plain scary to step out of that familiar cocoon of unhealthiness and spread your wings through the taking of responsibility for your life and marriage.
On December 11, 2011, our 7th wedding anniversary, Rob and I exchanged real promises to each other as a dedication of our marriage before our friends and our God:
Marisa: I promise to pray for you and to thank God for [...]
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
Somewhere along the way we lost focus of our wives. Somewhere we neglected to include our spouses in our “lives.” Oh sure, they are still with us and we see them most every day. We may even give them a quick kiss on the lips of cheek and a well rehearsed “love ya” as we
rush out the door but where’s the “I gotta have you” feelings?
