Shilah Writes

I understand.  This thing Bruce and I are doing is incomprehensible to most. A few think we are not completely nuts...a very few. I still do not think we are odd when it comes down to it. Or special. I don't think what we are called to do is more important than anyone else's walk of obedience.  I also, don't want attention or pity. Here's what I know.  God calls us out sometimes into unknown places... and my husband needs rest. People will be critical and worried, but it's because they care. I also know we must obey God rather than man. We must lose this fear of "what will people think?" We must serve our Great Big God Almighty. Wherever He calls us. I wonder often, why we put so much importance in our comfortable spaces, conventional ways, and culturally,  acceptable boxes? God never says in His Word, "as long as everyone understands and is ok with your actions, then you should do it". Nope. He gives us others' encouragements, opinions, and ...

We never have to worry or fear. God's Word says so. It's been confirmed that its true. But we do it anyway, as a human default. Especially, when we're tired or when life is challenging and chaotic. Which is a lot of the time. We don't have to feel guilt and condemnation. God's Word says this too. But we do feel these things because we want everything to be good for the ones we love and because we don't want to let anyone down. People Pleasers are equal parts caring and a little bit fake, because when this is your strength, tendencies to feel bitterness or invisible grows stronger at each fail. So we spin our wheels or run around like senseless chickens trying to dig our way out of bad situations or to fix things beyond our control.  The only true thing we can do for the glory of God in our every day lives is to stop the habits of being busy, occupied, and stressed. And determine to spend Every Single Morning with the Word of God. (Coffee helps). And All Day Abid...

  This morning in church I wrote down a bunch of words the resurrection stirs in my heart: Fresh/Clean New/Renew Spring/Refresh Young/Tender  Baby/Fragile Light/Life Hope/Love We sang songs of rejoicing and praise and heard a message about victory and a reading of thoughts from Nicodemus's perspective. Yesterday the little kids and their mom's had a resurrection garden party and they made these little gardens out of terra cotta pots and rocks and mosses. I love how the celebration of Easter gets us all involved in real and tangible ways. As real as sticks and stones that kids can touch and imagine the cross and the tomb where Jesus lay. Feathery mosses and new young plants depicting new life...to touch something real that helps one to understand the meaning of...priceless. And again, this year, the Jeremy Camp song..."the same power that rose Jesus from the dead lives in us" A thought I can not seem to fully grasp. I want to. Lord, help my unbelief when it all looks s...