Monday, May 21, 2007

Dinner Party

I love throwing parties! I love it when one of my friends is having a baby or some other major life event and I get the chance to throw a party. I love figureing out the menu and working on the guest list and makeing the invitation. I love it all! Thank you to all my friends that let me shower them with parties! I love it!

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Healing

I am ready Lord!
Ready to do what you have asked me to do. Ready to heal from all the past hurts and pain. Ready to walk in the freedom that you have designed for me to walk in. Ready to walk in the perfect law that gives freedom (james 1).I know that you have waited for me here and you are ready to take all this burden, all this pain, all this regret and all this sin. You are ready to take it and make it as far from me as the east is from the west. I know that you can do it and now I am saying:
I am ready!

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Assault on the Family

Over the past year, I have known seven families that have been torn apart. They have been destroyed either through adultery or just plain selfishness. I can not help but think about my own family when forced to deal with these situations in different ways. How can we protect our families from this world, our culture, and from evil itself? In the modern Christian culture of current day churches, women are given the "inspired" checklist to live their life by in order to prevent their husbands from being tempted to stray......it is somehow our jobs as wives to check off the list in order to protect our husbands from their sin. How is this possible? better yet how is this biblical? If we have sex with our husbands every other day, cook him a nice dinner, keep the house clean and straight and provide him with 2.5 children then the equation should equal 1 happy marriage...... If the Christian culture in our churches has it right then why is the divorce rate higher in the church than it is outside of it? We are the ones that have all the books and the conferences and all the right things to say and to do, but we can not keep our families together...