Encouragement For Women

Here I stand at the sink doing a mighty load of dishes. Our dishwasher racks are being repaired and doing every dish, pan and utensil by hand really makes me appreciate how easy I have it compared to those women of yonder years. Though I cannot say the work was done without sighing and moaning and some good old complaining to myself. I also do not have Palmolive hands. Nay dry, cracked, winter hands. Yesterday during church I just could not focus on what my Pastor was saying. My mind was adrift. I was swirling into another one of my "oh no, it just seems all too hopeless" life moments. The reality of life, a struggling marriage and the stress and responsibility of home schooling was seriously pressing down on me. I just totally felt hopeless, right there in church. My ears were perked when I heard my Pastor say, "Where there is no faith in the future, there is no power in the present." As I clued in and listened he went on about a book titled "Unfinishe...

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 It is good, really good that God doesn’t always give us the things we hope for. Wehave all longed and hoped for things that would be beneficial, inspirational, self-serving, injurious to self or others (Job 6) or just good old fashioned revenge (Romans 12:19). These are the things that I praise Him for not giving me. But there are the hopes and longings of our heart of hearts, those things we must continue to hope for, not giving up our confidence in Him (Hebrews 10:35-36). Renewed hunger for God’s word (Psalm 119:48, 88, 119, 167), living loving lives (John 14:15, 15:10, I John 2:3), our relationships healed, rest when we are weary and the like. If we fail to trust God to be committed to taking care of our every need, then we have lost all hope. There is no heart need that cannot be fulfilled by the loving God we serve. I am coming to grips with this trust are...