At the Daddy’s Girl retreat last weekend, we learned that fatherhood wasn’t necessarily something created, but that God just WAS the perfect Father, that He IS the perfect Father. We matched up multiple verses with multiple categories discovering that He is the perfect Provider, Protector, Defender, Caregiver, Teacher, Leader. Then we transferred them to the… Read More The Gift of All Things New
“How many loaves do you have?” He asked them. It was in response to their question: “Where will anyone be able to find enough bread here in this desolate place to satisfy these people?” I think I’ve had the same sentiments in the last week and a half ~ Where WILL anyone be able to find… Read More Counting One Thousand Gifts ~ April
It was my age and my “title”, I think, that drew her to me about twelve years ago. I was the youngest, by many years, in our local Woman’s Club at the time, and a “pastor’s wife.” She seemed intrigued by my choices and life’s path. There was also the “Texas Connection”, which there often… Read More The Gifts of Cassie and Chuck
“I hadn’t known that joy meant dying. What did I think hard eucharisteo and the table of the Last Supper meant?” Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts, p. 179 +++ And He summoned the crowd with His disciples and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself, and take up… Read More Counting Gifts ~ Hard and Good
Gifts nailed together was the Joy Dare prompt for Friday. 1. His hands and feet to the Cross 2. My rescue and redemption 3. My forgiveness and freedom Thankfully, these three things were nailed… Read More Holy Week Gifts
“In the midst of what seems a mess, in the tripping up and the stumbling down of all hopes, Jesus gives thanks? What precedes the miracle is thanksgiving, eucharisteo, and it is a Greek word with a hard meaning that is harder yet to live. Do I really want to take up this word?” One… Read More Counting One Thousand Gifts ~ March (and the Rubbermaid incident)
It was in Stillwater, OK, while working on one of my first Beth Moore Bible studies, that I first came across this verse from 2 Corinthians 1:20: “For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ.” Or in my re-wording and mulling over: Christ is the fulfillment of every single… Read More Counting One Thousand Gifts ~ February
“The counting of all blessings is ultimately summed up in One.All gratitude is ultimately gratitude for Christ, all remembering a remembering of Him. For in Him all things were created, are sustained, have their being. Thus, Christ is all there is to give thanks for; Christ is all there is to remember. To know how… Read More Counting One Thousand Gifts ~ January