My feelings went rogue this week. I even found myself repeating in my head all the things I know to be good and true and helpful...they just feel on a hard heart. I am going to unpack this a little more in the upcoming weeks, even give more explanation as to why my week was [...]
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From Fear to Faith, Week 1
They let me be me in all of my crazy, and I love them for it. Last Thursday it started, my Fear to Faith class, and as I stared into the faces of the twenty women I have been praying over for months...I was in awe. I was excited too. Also a little high strung [...]
Raising up the Broken to Life
It has started happening again, and I promised myself I wouldn't let it. All the old stresses and lies creeping back in. The stresses of my house is not clean, my kids are not clean, my schedule is a packed mess and so is my brain type stresses! I knew this would happen. Its why [...]
Give A Listen
Permission to be blunt? I believe that there is power unseen. I believe that God visits us in ways that cannot be touched or explained. I believe that He comes boldly and loudly to anyone who is willing to listen. I believe that He offers encouragement, comfort, joy, peace, and strength by the supernatural presence [...]
Running Towards the Difficult
Is it weird that I find myself attracted to difficult things? Its almost as if I have gotten a taste of how powerful it is to know the presence of God in a time of trial and pain, and I wonder if a part of me is trying to grapple for more. Like making totally sure I [...]
The Non-Decision
Its weird, I know its weird and TMI so I apologize in advance...but I know the date Gideon was conceived. It was my birthday last year, August 3rd 2013. Its another little kicker. I haven't the foggiest clue the day, week, or hardly month my other children were conceived in. But of course, because the [...]
10 Years
This week Dave and I are in California to celebrate our 10 Year Anniversary. Our actual anniversary is October 14th, but to get away just the two of us we will take any time of the year! At milestones like this one it is crazy to look back and see how far we've come. To [...]