Be Bold, Do Faith
I promised a few friends I would share what life is like now that we are homeschooling one daughter. That was weeks ago. Which should give you at least some idea of my schedule. We began treatment for our daughter’s anxiety, which developed out of years of trying to function without anyone being aware of [...]
I LOVE our home. I don’t ever desire to complain about the blessing of this roof over my head. I only mention that Dustin and I singled out this particular residence as the home of our dreams three kids ago. Had we known the munchkin ratio within these four walls would increase by 100% it [...]
Dan Walsh’s The Reunion is the story of unsung hero Aaron Miller, who arrived home from Vietnam to begin a new battle with the ghosts of war. His marriage and children became casualties as Aaron sunk deeper into self-medicating his wounds. The Reunion begins many years after Aaron has lost everything yet managed to clean up [...]
I’m participating in my first-ever online Bible study. Melissa Taylor is hosting a study of Unglued by Lysa TerKuerst. I blogged a long time ago about my first encounter with Lysa’s writing. Her little book Radically Obedient, Radically Blessed proved life changing at a time when my faith was about to be tested. Life has pretty [...]
I’ve been a bit lopsided. My focus lately tended to land on the negative. Longing for change, I took to prayer, asking God to realign my perspective and reveal His hand in the bigger picture. I expected God would deal with the present or offer new hope for the future. Instead He served up a refreshing [...]
God issued me a command: be BOLD, Jen. Easy for Him to say. Being BOLD is the opposite of what I do when I’m living life without depending on Jesus.