I had a youth pastor who always began his formal teaching with the prayer that is included on this printable. Good Morning, Lord.  What’s your plan?  May I be a part of it? I was always moved by that prayer and have found myself recalling it and praying it many mornings of late.  I thought it was appropriate to include in this printable I created. Sometimes, I want to take notes about my daily bible readings – there are those...

Amy Bayliss, one of my long-time blogging heroes, has written a book titled Pursuit of Proverbs 31.  You know – as Christian women Proverbs 31 (along with Titus 2) is often one of the first passages we are guided to study.  Sadly, a lot of what we “know” about the woman idealized in Proverbs 31 is myth! Amy is on a “backwards blog tour” for the month of May 2012.  If you enjoyed her post Friday, you can read more...

This weekend, Reality came knocking on our front door.  It’s not like we have lived in a fairy-tale world, but I will say I was surprised by just HOW differently I imagined our perspective to be from what it really has been. Reality Set in: When Chick #6, affectionately nicknamed “Gimpy” died.  We were rooting for the poor little thing, but underdeveloped legs prevented growth and the poor itty bitty thing couldn’t hang...

I’ve seen the keychain that says “God is my Co-pilot” which is supposed to be another way of saying God is with us in all things.  Sometimes we try to KEEP Him in the co-pilot seat.  But the truth is – no matter how much we WANT to control our destiny – in fact – it is GOD who lays out every step before us.  He knows the flight plan, and no matter how much we might want to change course – HE is really...

Did you ever memorize the song that teaches all the Old Testament books in order?  Some of those minor prophets get really confusing because there are so many, but knowing the “category” of book seemed to help me memorize the titles better.  And I LOVE the Major Prophets Let us sing the Major Prophets, Major Prophets, Major Prophets Let us sing the Major Prophets there are five of them all Isaiah, Jeremiah – who wrote...

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I am NOT always happy when Change comes rolling around.  I like to MAKE plans and KEEP plans…  But one thing I’ve learned this past year – in a new way – is that CHANGE IS GOOD.  We’ve had a  LOT of changes to deal with – and we did not always respond well, but as the year wore on, the changes that came were viewed differently. There’s something about putting your trust in a Sovereign God,...

El-Roi.  That’s His Name.  He is the God Who Sees.  (El-Row-Hee) This is a name given to Him by a foreign slave who was pregnant with her master’s son and despised and abused by her master’s wife.  She had run away because she was feeling abused. Think about it – put yourself in her shoes.  She was a slave.  She had to do whatever she was told.  Even submit to her master’s bed.  He was in his late 80s or...

On Monday, I wrote about perspective. There are some things that are harder to consider changing our perspective about – harder to understand – harder to really come to terms with. As human beings, we want everything to fit nicely into a little box that makes sense for us – and everybody else. We want to take God’s Word and make it fit into what we believe or understand about God. But God is far bigger than our tiny perspectives and...

Digging into my “Bible study this morning, I read: The apostle Paul had a strong and steady underlying consistency in his life.  Consequently, he could let his external life change without internal distress because he was rooted and grounded in God.” This was originally written by Oswald Chambers in My Utmost for His Highest, An Updated Edition in Today’s Language. Cynthia Heald (author of the Bible study) goes on to explain that “Paul...