Review of The Grumble-Free Year by Tricia Goyer
The Grumble-Free Year: Twelve Months, Eleven Family Members, and One Impossible Goal is the story of the Goyer family and the unthinkable challenge they decided to take on. They determined enough was enough when it came to all forms of complaining, arguing, and...
But first…Prayer {Finding Hope in the Waiting}
In the last post (here) we saw King Ahaz respond to affliction the wrong way by turning to the world and striving after the wind. The result was devastation. Today I want to show you an example of another king of Judah from 2 Chronicles 20. This king knew his place...
How NOT to Endure Trials {Finding Hope in the Waiting}
Yesterday we saw that we are to wait upon the Lord in the midst of trials. Psalm 27 says, Wait for the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the Lord." In times of despair and suffering we are to bring our requests before Him and know that...
Be still and know {Finding Hope in the Waiting}
When I was in times of deep anguish and despair, my mind would start working. I would cease waiting upon the Lord and would begin devising plans to solve the problem. Using human logic, I would race through the many possible ways to get out of the muck and the...
Finding Comfort in the Psalms
When I was deep in the muck and mire of waiting I would often turn to the psalms for comfort and encouragement. So many of them were written from a heart in anguish. When I didn’t have the words to pray, I knew I could pray one of the psalms and it would reveal my...
Correctly Bringing our Petition Before the Lord {31 days of Finding Hope in the Waiting}
Yesterday we saw that we should not be a complaining people. (You can read that here) But God also tells us to bring our petitions before Him. So what's the difference? How do we come before Him without complaining? Maybe we can draw more from the Numbers 11...
Hope does not complain {Finding Hope in the Waiting}
Way back when we only had three children who were all very young, Chris and I had the desire to stop renting and buy a house. But our income was meager meaning that what we could afford was also meager. We ended up in a double-wide mobile home situated on an acre of...
How to Find Hope in the Waiting Times
Do you feel as though you are in a “wilderness” of waiting right now? Are you struggling through a financial crisis, health issue, or maybe the death of a loved one? Maybe you are struggling through something else entirely and are wondering if it will ever end and if...
How I plan to persevere this school year
What is the race set before me? Well, at this season of my life, my chief "race" or calling is that of homeschooling the 5 children I have left at home. I have other, secondary races: blogger, homemaker/wife, ebay reseller, women's ministry leader, youth leader,...
When you don’t feel like God is listening
The psalmists had highs and lows; joys and sorrows just like us. In Psalm 77, Asaph relates a particularly low time in his life where he doesn't feel the presence of the Lord. He then determines to do something about it. In verses 1-9 Asaph lifts up his...
When life gets too busy
Last spring was an extremely busy time for me. It seemed that I was constantly running this child or that to an out of town activity, somebody to therapy, a dentist or orthodontist appointment, or myself to a job When I had a minute to breathe I was wading through...
