I can’t keep procrastinating on trust. If I can’t trust Jesus with this unwanted, anticlimactic, homely, nubbly, little faith-tester of a circumstance (whatever it happens to be today), I won’t be ready to trust Him tomorrow with something more grandiose. Either I trust Him, or I don’t. Right here is where the rubber meets the road.
Elisabeth
Stick-in-the-mud turned avid adventurer. Country mouse in the city. Freelance writer and editor, daydreamer, joyful child of God.
In the fulness of time
Have you ever thought about the world Jesus was born into?
Of course, the set-up for His arrival began before the foundation of the world, but we can see precise pieces being set into place decades, and even centuries ahead of time…
a fellowship-loving adventurer
I have lived in Israel for over four years, where I have met people from all over the world. God has used it to transform me from a painfully shy homebody into a fellowship-loving adventurer. He has also used it to stretch and grow my faith for His provision and direction.
A Passion to Help
I was practicing the spiritual gift of service for years before I realized what it was. But I can tell you from experience that serving out of my own strength just doesn’t work. I over-commit. I run out of energy and enthusiasm. And sometimes I even grow resentful of those I set out to help. I must serve God, not needs. I must let Him assign the tasks.
Q&A: Should daughters stay at home?
I’m looking for “chapter and verse” from the Bible on girls and young women staying at home, under their father’s protection and authority, until marriage. It was an easy concept until we have to back it up! Our daughter lives at home with us, has been homeschooled since birth, and graduates this year. She has…
Cinderella
Perhaps you would have laughed, peering into my kitchen last Friday afternoon. There was the pot of soup simmering on the stove, the challah rising forgotten in a bowl, the mop bucket, the grubby floor…
and the pealing bells and pomp of a royal wedding playing out live, just on the other side of the sea.
novelizing
Once upon a time, I was required to design a short seminar. Not surprisingly, I chose the topic of writing. So I read (and read), taking some forty pages of notes that translated into an entire mini-course, handouts and all.
I never actually taught that seminar.
But as I reread my notes today, I discovered that God had surprised me. The principles I write by, the ones I repeat to students, clients, and long-suffering friends: yes, those wise words? Many of them come from the novelists and wordsmiths whose books I read and seemingly forgot.
Epiphany
It’s Epiphany today: the feast of the three kings, the three sages, the three very wise men. They arrived late on the scene — some say two years — when Jesus was no longer described as a baby, but a young child; staying not in a stable, but a house. The point is: they showed…
Post Card from Bethlehem
Bethlehem.
A plain and simple town, named after an everyday item…
is showing some signs that something special happened here…
A Week Abroad
I’ll just say it: I’m allergic to schedules.
I like to think I’m a flexible person. As the oldest child in a large family, and as a young adult involved in volunteering, freelance work and travel, this trait has stood me in good stead. But it also trips me up nearly every day, whenever I allow (usually good) non-essentials to deflect me from the tasks God has actually give me to do.
But sometimes the very distractions are His assignment for me at that moment.
