Bring joy to your servant, for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. Psalm 86:4 NIV Every woman fantasizes about the day her husband will say, “It’s okay, honey, I’ll clean the house for you today.” Well, friends, my dreams just came true. I clean the house on Fridays. It’s my routine. But last Friday was the first day of my husband’s vacation time. As I grabbed the disinfectant spray and headed for the bathroom, he grabbed me by the waist and uttered the most charming and heart-stopping words a man could utter, “I’m going to clean for you today. Take the day off.” While I pittered and pattered around the house, I watched the man sanitize with vigor. He dusted things that were long overdue, and polished some areas I tend to gloss over. I stood in the mirror applying ...
Category Archives: Family Life
I Can’t Do It
As a mother, I feel this way quite often. When I haven't had much sleep and I have to get up and take care of children, when I'm on day ten of sick children, or when I'm cleaning up messes...again, I often think... I can't do this. I hear other women say the same thing, too... "I think God may want me to (stay at home with my children, change jobs, homeschool, etc.), but I just don't think I can." We often feel like we aren't up to the task at hand. And the truth is we aren't able. Often, I can't do the hard things. At least not by myself. But, God, who is much bigger than I, has called me and equipped me to do them. Paul struggled with this same thing. And he found that God was always sufficient in his weakness: But ...
Serving An Unchanging God
Awhile back I was really frustrated with my husband. We were outside in the yard and I honestly cannot remember what I was mad at him about (I’m sure it was huge at the time, but probably petty in the big scheme of things) but I said, “You know you are a lot like God.” He looked at me and I could tell he was kind of puffed up at the thought of being like God. I said, “Yeah, you are a lot like God because you never change!” We laugh at this moment now, but at that point I was not laughing. Can you relate? The part that is true in that statement is that God never changes. Malachi 3:6 says "I the LORD do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.” All of the circumstances and people around us ...
I Can Hear
God will certainly hear me…Micah 7:7 NLT Last night I took my Grandma to watch her oldest great-grandchild, my daughter Meghan, sing at her high school’s choir performance. Meg was up on stage with over a hundred other young men and women. Thankfully, Grandma’s poor hearing didn’t stop her from going to Meghan’s special event. At eighty-six years old, Grandma is extremely hard of hearing. She worked in a factory on an assembly line when she was young, long before there were rules about wearing earplugs around loud machinery. Her hearing has suffered greatly because of those working years. We sat in the audience facing the stage that was filled with a bevy of distinct sounds, these young adults joyfully singing for us. Though all completely different, their voices were one as we listened intently. My Grandma sat there with a perpetual smile on her face as the music stopped and ...
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Genny Heikka
Managing EditorGenny started her career life thinking that the business world was where she wanted to be. But after her daughter was born and she began reading books to her, she realized that what she really wanted to do was be a writer...
