Getting Ugly

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That is what I did today….i got Ugly! What does that mean? Well getting ugly is that all out crying moment when you can’t control tears, sobs…..anything. It’s that moment you fall to your knees and cry out to Jesus for your sanity’s sake. It’s that moment you have nothing left to give this world, and you need strength, mercy and grace lest you end up on the 5 o’clock news! (You hopefully understand that I said that to make a point!) It’s the breaking point where you have no where else to turn.

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I have been catching up all week on a Bible Study God laid on my heart to join….4 weeks late! AMAZING thing is, i have almost accomplished that goal! So why all the ugly? Why today? Why now?

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Hope for the Weary Mom- Playing Catch up Week 3

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WEEK 3-When You Don’t Measure Up
Whether it’s the ideal I have formed in my own head or the ideals of others….OR my comparison of myself to others i won’t measure up….NOT ONE SIGLE BIT!

There is one place though that I can measure up….Christ! Not that I am perfect, as He is, but Grace! His Grace makes it so I and everyone around me no matter our differences can measure up.

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Hope for the Weary Mom- Playing Catch Up Week 2

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WEEK 2-
This was a very challenging chapter! It went against everything I have been taught as a pastor’s wife. It goes against advice, it goes against examples of nearly every pastor’s wife I know.

So what is the lesson…..WEAKNESS. As a pastor’s wife I am not expected to have any. I am to be solid as a rock. Children are to be angelic. Home, immaculate.

Then why 2 Corinthians 12:9-10?

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 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 of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

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Hope For the Weary Mom-week 1, Playing Catch Up

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I know the link up on Hope for the Weary Mom’s book club is closed but i still wanted to participate with my thoughts!

I will share thoughts for each week on Fridays! But until I get caught up expect four or five posts sooner!

I look forward to sharing my journey with you!
May God bless!

WEEK 1-
“Be honest about where i am right now.”- this is very difficult for me right, now and I will explain more of this in a later post, but this concept challenged me more than anything!

“Openly invite Christ into my life EVERY day to walk and work with me.”- this is challenging for me specifically, because every morning as soon as the alarm goes off, i fly into task mode. Our kids get on the bus a little after 7 each morning and we are ALL up at 6. I hate living like this but 5 or 5:30 has been tried and it works for a few days but then WHAM! Exhaustion!

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Book Review: From the Heart of a Woman

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I. want to start off with an an apology to Thomas Nelson. Due to some unforeseen issues, i was unable to review this book within a timely fashion.

Well. This book is one woman’s journal entries as she walks with God. A sort of Psalm book if you will. It is personal. She takes passages of Scripture and makes them her own.

I struggle with writing this review, not because I feel pressure to give it a good one but because I don’t want to discourage the author. There were letters that were heartfelt and biblically solid.

Yet when an author begins a faith based book with a statement that says basically I am not a biblical scholar so therefore I can’t be held accountable for whatever I might say that is unbiblical. (Those were not her exact words but it was the idea) . It leaves a bad taste in this Pastor’s wife’s mouth. It communicates to those who are new in the faith that they can interpret scripture however they please, and THAT my friends is very dangerous territory!

There were some letters that didn’t play hermeneutical gymnastics with the text and those were both moving and encouraging to say the least but then there were ones that made me so upset because it was inappropriate! I know that one of the most falsely interpreted pieces of scripture in the Song of Solomon. It is not intended to be a picture of our relationship with Christ. It is a picture of love and the struggle to stay pure and love both before and after marriage. So when one of the most intimate love scenes in Song of Solomon is turned into a love scenario with God, i was sickened. I have a relationship with Christ, but the provocative language was not how one should view it. God is my Father, not my lover. He loves me but not as a husband does.

I cannot in good conscience give my stamp of approval for this book. I really wanted to, but I base my review first and foremost as being biblically sound.

(Note: i received a free digital copy of this book from the publisher for reviewing purposes. I am under no obligation to give a positive review)

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