Encouragement For Women

Patience Pronunciation: 'pA-sh&nt Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English pacient, from Anglo-French, from Latin patient-, patiens, from present participle of pati to suffer; perhaps akin to Greek pEma suffering 1 : bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint 2 : manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain 3 : not hasty or impetuous 4 : steadfast despite opposition, difficulty, or adversity (Courtesy of Merriam-Webster ) Sometimes when we pray God answers immediately and sometimes it seems we wait and wait and wait and an answer seems to never come. Often times we may miss the answer because we were expecting a certain answer and a different one came.Or perhaps we get an answer and we don't like it...so we ask our question in a different manner as if we might challenge the Lord our God. In the January posting I mentioned my waiting on God's promise for my marriage. Indeed I am waiting...and each day brings new hope and healing. As

Bonjour! Bienvenidos! Wilkomen! Howdy y'all! I am so happy to have computer time again! I just recently moved and was without a computer for almost a week...and these days that is just crazy talk! In the midst of this enormous move and all the chaos that goes with it, I failed to prioritize a few things. One being getting this issue of EFW written and sent before February approached. So, please accept my humble apology for the tardiness. Also, to those of you who prefer the email format- another apology for this month. The past two days I have been thinking a bit about conditionals. You know, those statements that go like this, "If _____ , then _____." "If you take out the trash, then I'll get all t he recycling". Or perhaps, "if you clean your room in time we can read three books for nigh-nigh." There are a number of conditionals in the Bible as well. God loves us amazingly unconditionally as he looks at us through Christ's redem