Encouragement For Women

If you are interested in some amazing gift ideas that improves the lives of others, please check out the Christmas Catalog on Gospel for Asia's website: http://gfa.org/gift?motiv=WA7A-GFGC Here you can purchase livestock for families to take care of for their own food or food like milk or eggs to sell to make a living from. You can purchase a sewing machine or the like to help support a livelihood and family. If you are thinking it is too expensive... you could buy a water filter for a family for $25 or blankets to help keep people warm $5/each. Last year we purchased some animals in the name of some friends and family members. Though our culture makes these types of gifts awkward, they are beautiful in that they keep on giving and blessing others. In light of the coming season where we Americans are bombarded by -buy, buy, buy! Please consider making a difference with what you buy. In Christ Elizabeth

Real Truth - Honesty We hide many things, lots of things from others. Sometimes it is to "protect" them, sometimes ourselves or others. I recently came across an online posting of secrets. People sent a man postcards with only their secret and his mailing address. He collected them, turned them into books and a website. Being curious in nature, I checked it out and at first was rather entertained. Then heartbroken. Secrets from crushes, lust, uncontrolled fetishes/desires, abused/abusers, mourning over deeds done and many people whose lives are obviously shadowed by these and many more secrets. Funny to me is how myself and others who are believers in Christ try to hide things from God. I say funny because there is nothing that is hidden from God. He is and was and will be. All time has past before him and he knows even man's own heart and knew us even in our mother's womb. So, though we may have others fooled, God really knows everything we've ever thought, said,...