answering the call to restful living; with joy
What sermon is my life preaching? That’s something I have to pause often to consider and re-evaluate through different seasons. It’s especially important because I have little disciples in my care who are watching and learning. This past November, I finished working through a creative devotional journal by Shanna Noel called 100 Days of Less …
Each month, I like to focus on a specific topic and read what scripture says about it. For September, I went through a devotional scripture card set by Illustrated Faith called The One Anothers. It’s about loving others the way that Christ loves us. Here are few points that really resonated with me. Accept one …
I am so awkward in friendships. Thank God for the few good friends He’s blessed me with who have stayed through the years and endured my quirkiness! It’s probably because of childhood experiences that I tend to expect the worse from new friends. I am inept at reading in between the lines. Living in Canada …
Let’s chat about vision boards; visualizing our dreams by getting them out of our head and putting them on paper, and setting goals to accomplish them. Have you heard about the “One Little Word” trend? It’s where, instead of making a New Year’s resolution that you forget about by the time February rolls around, you …
First post and I have no idea what to write. Well, actually I do; I have several ideas drafted but can’t for the life of me complete a thought. See, I’ve been trying to launch this blog since September of last year. And, the idea to blog came to me several months before that. When …
![The Proverbs 31 woman is diligent and prudent for she knows her purpose, understands her gifting, and believes the time is short.
… working diligently; earnestly, with intention and delight, as unto God.
… using the time and energy prudently; sensibly, wisely, praying continually while He may be found.
Shawna reminds us in the Proverbs 31 devotional by @illustratedfaith that living with diligence and prudence allows us to then be generous. It enables us to give freely what He’s freely given to us. And we can… because He is diligent.
”And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.“
[Galatians 6:9]
”Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.” [Colossians 3:23-24]
🎶 In The Room ~ Jon Reddick
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