Do you ever feel you’re not “enough,” former procrastinators? Whatever “enough” is in our world, we think in our hearts we just don’t have it. We don’t measure up. We can name a hundred ways we’re inadequate as women, wives, mothers, teachers, employees, bosses. The world says we’re not enough. The world also says we…
Happy Mother’s Day, former procrastinators! And many thanks to all you women who nurture others in the love of the Lord. What a good time to remember “momisms” we grew up with – those comments and advice your mom would use in dealing with you. You know, “If everybody else jumped off a cliff, would…
Can you former procrastinators name the fruit of the Spirit? Bet you can. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. (Galatians 5:22-23) We like that list. We want to have those virtues. Notice there’s one thing on that list we rarely talk about: self-control. Are you quick to say, “I don’t have any…
Temptation, former procrastinators, comes in many forms. There’s something for everybody. It even seems tailor-made – the chocolate, the pillow, the hug, the snide remark – that perfectly fits our “needs.” We often refer in a light-hearted manner to being tempted. We laugh about it as if it were of no importance or we moan…
The first time, former procrastinators, that I heard “All of life is spiritual” I questioned it. The speaker went on to say changing diapers is spiritual. And it’s true. “In Him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17:28) There is nothing that doesn’t come under God. Yet in our humanness we tend…
My dad, former procrastinators, would periodically go “to the city” to pick up supplies for work. When we were young, he would often take us children with him – one at a time – on those day trips. It was a Day with Daddy. He had the agenda and he included me. He drove, He…
We’ve all heard, former procrastinators, “the still small voice of God.” The softer His whisper, the easier it is to ignore or question. We’re also familiar with the enormous pressure within when we know the Lord is impressing something on us that we’re reluctant to acknowledge or act on. That’s harder to deny. My preferred…
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
Proverbs 6:6-8
. . . you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.
Colossians 3:9-10