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This is my testimony of how God has NEVER left me, during times of being a single mother, a wife, and a single but married mother, during times of illness with Multiple Sclerosis, fighting family, and spiritual ups and downs. I can tell you that it does not matter what you do or say or how you act, God will always be by your side. During the difficult times of trials, tribulations, and losing loved ones He is still there. The more I read the Bible, the more I am able to fully understand that it isn't just a cliche that He does His best work when He is silent and you are going through the valleys of life. I know we are each broken in some way by life. Remember that He can't get in where there are no openings. To really hear Him and sense Him, you have to have some cracks or holes in the wall of your being and your life. It is only then that He can mend and perfect what has been broken. Without hard times would you really learn to trust and depend on Him?

A Message For ALL Moms...YOU ARE AMAZING!!!

To the mom hiding in her bathroom, needing peace for just one minute, as the tears roll down her cheeks…

To the mom who is so tired she feel likes she can’t function anymore and would do anything to lay down and get the rest she needs…

To the mom sitting in her car, alone, stuffing food in her face because she doesn’t want anyone else to see or know she eats that stuff…

To the mom crying on the couch after she yelled at her kids for something little and is now feeling guilty and like she is unworthy…

To the mom that is trying desperately to put those old jeans on because all she really wants is to look in the mirror and feel good about herself…

To the mom that doesn’t want to leave the house because life is just too much to handle right now…

To the mom that is calling out for pizza again because dinner just didn’t happen the way she wanted it to…

To the mom that feels alone, whether in a room by herself or standing in a crowd…

You are enough.

You are important.

You are worthy.

This is a phase of life for us. This is a really, really hard, challenging, crazy phase of life.

In the end it will all be worth it. But for now it’s hard. And it’s hard for so many of us in many different ways. We don’t always talk about it, but it’s hard and it’s not just you.

You are enough.

You are doing your best.

Those little eyes that look up at you – they think you are perfect. They think you are more than enough.

Those little hands that reach out to hold you – they think you are the strongest. They think you can conquer the world.

Those little mouths eating the food you gave them – they think that you are the best because their bellies are full.

Those little hearts that reach out to touch yours – they don’t want anything more. They just want you.

Because you are enough. You are more than enough, mama.

You. Are. Amazing!

Living A Cruciform Life

A few weeks ago, I started reading a new book called “The Broken Way” by Ann Voskamp. As I read the book, I keep seeing words that are new to me. I started looking them up and studying them. The one that sticks in my mind the most is “Cruciform”. Researching the word, I discovered that it is not just any word, but it is also a way of living the Christian life. This is so informative, helpful, and eye-opening that I just have to share it. I pray that as God speaks to you through this, you are able to learn just how easy it is to live a Christian life today.

Cruciform (kroo-suh-form) – The shape of the cross. The cross represents life, death, and the resurrected life of Jesus. When the Bible is “of highest importance” to you and “Christ is formed in you”, then your life takes on the shape of the cross. You begin to live the vertical ? life of loving God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, and you begin to live the horizontal ↔ life of loving your neighbor as yourself (1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Galatians 4:19; Matthew 22:36-39).

The cruciform life is faith in Jesus Christ expressing itself through love for God and others (Galatians 5:6). No matter where we are in our various spheres of influence, we all live a life that shows that Love Is Faith’s Expression (LIFE). The cruciform life is the life of Jesus taking shape in us! (Galatians 4:19; Colossians 1:27; Galatians 2:20).

As we individually become increasingly conformed to the image of Christ, we will live as a Son and love as a Servant in his or her personal spheres of influence, in increasing measure. (2 Corinthians 3:18, 10:13-18)

Son* – Like Jesus, the cruciform disciple will live in constant awareness of and dependence upon his or her relationship to God as His Beloved. (Matthew 3:16-17; John 15:9-10; Romans 8:14-17; 1 John3:1-3; Romans 5:5-11; Galatians 2:19-20)

Servant – Like Jesus, the cruciform disciple will live in constant awareness and practice of his or her own role as a bond servant. By being emptied for the sake of others to the glory of God in the following roles. (Matthew 10:24-25; Mark 10:42-45; Luke 6:40; John 13:3-5, 14-16; John 20:21; Philippians 2:5-11, Galatians 2:19-20; 2 Corinthians 5:14-15.)

*In Galatians 3:26-29 both men and women are said to be “sons of God.” In Paul’s day, an adopted son was a full heir while an adopted daughter was not. In Christ, both men and women are full heirs and so they are both called “Sons.”

1) In a relationship to God, the servant is a SEEKER: One who exalts God by seeking first the Lord, His Kingdom, and His righteousness.

(Matthew 6:33; Psalm 24:3-6, 27; 34:8-10; 63:1; 105:3-4; 119:2, 10. Proverbs 2:1-5; Daniel 9:3; Jeremiah 29:13-14; Hosea 3:5; Matthew 7:7-11; Luke 11:5-13; Acts 17:26-27; Galatians 1:10; Colossians 3:1; Hebrews 11:6, 8-16; 13:14.)

2) In a relationship to others who are not disciples, the servant is a SOWER: One who engages neighbors, nations, and the next generation with the love of Christ by sowing the good news of the Kingdom into his or her own Personal Mission Field (people you know, see, and meet yourself) through the works of service and witness.

(Genesis 1:26-28; Isaiah 58:10-12; Psalm 80; Matthew 9:35-38; 13:1-43; 28:18-20; Mark 4:26-32; John 4:31-38; Romans 1:13-17; 2 Corinthians 9:6-15; Acts 1:8; Galatians 5:6; 6:8-10; James 3:18)

3) Dealing with all that God has made, the servant is a STEWARD: One who is continually equipped by God’s word to use the resources (body, time, talent,

words, work, creation, treasure, truth, and relationships) God has given for the advancement of the kingdom.

(Ezra 7:10; Mark 14:36; John 17:4; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 4:1-2; 1 Corinthians 10:31; Ephesians 4:11-16; Ephesians 5:15-17; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 1 Peter 4:10-11; Colossians 3:17, 3:23-24; Hebrews 5:8

4) In relationship to others who are also disciples, the servant is a SHEPHERD: One who encourages his or her brothers and sisters in Christ as he or she loves and labors with them for the sake of the kingdom.

(Luke 6:12-19; John 10:1-18; John 15:12-19; John 21:15-17; Acts 2:42-47; Acts 4:32; Romans 1:11-12; Ephesians 5:15-21; Colossians 1:28-29; Colossians 3:12-16; 2 Timothy 2:22; Hebrews 3:12-13; Hebrews 10:19-25)

“I am broken and His. He is broken, given, and mine! Can you dare to break yourself into a kind of communion, a kind of union? Can you let the way be made for broken places to re-member?” It’s like this is one wild dare to live cruciform, to let life become shaped like a cross. This could be a dare to let life be shaped like union. It’s a dare to be married to mysteries so that Christ has hands in this world again-and specifically mine. There’s more than a thousand ways for Christ to have hands in a busted world so the brokenhearted can find a deeper kind of whole” (or wholeness.) Look for ways to take up the cruciform lifestyle and see how your life changes.
(The Broken Way, Chapter 3. Ann Voskamp)

For more information and study suggestions, check out the website at https://cruciformlife.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/what-is-the-cruciform-life/

and the book “The Broken Way” by Ann Voskamp https://annvoskamp.com/thebrokenway/

Play With Fire: The Holy Spirit and The Abundant Life

What You Lack Is Not Who You Are

"Four boys that made mountains of laundry like they were tectonic plates, who furiously ravaged the fridge 24/7 and left a never-ending stream of empty plates. A quad of explosive testosterone, a quartet of dirt and wrestling and loud and dreams and books and mess and sweat and inventions.

And, frankly, there were a lot of days I wanted to have it wired up in neon blinking lights on a t-shirt:
These two arms
pull out a lot of this mother’s hair
over her 4 sons."