Wondering what God wills for your life? Wonder why it’s so hard to discern? These are questions I’m scratching through myself in hopes of learning more about discernment. I’m not content with thinking God is merely an eight ball; I shake, he answers. Will you wonder with me?
Part 9: Final Conclusions, Disillusionment with Church For the Church to embody being a living organism of God’s presence in the world, we must know and embrace our power in order to emanate it. As cliche as it may seem, Peter Parker a.k.a. Spiderman got the best advice. “With great power, comes great responsibility.” The Church has great power, therefore great potential and we mustn’t squander it. Facing a New Day and Age Living in…
Sometimes the lessons we learn as a child don’t begin to make sense until we experience more of life and mature. Today’s blog unfolded in that way for me, so bear with me in what might seem like a tangent. Our church recently asked us to help encourage an effort to reach out to our surrounding community. However, in the back of my mind, I kept thinking, “How can we go into the community…
“…but I do not even sacrifice my happiness, well-being, and peace for the good of my neighbor. If I did love him as myself, as the gospel bids, his misfortunes would distress me also, his happiness would bring delight to me too. But on the contrary, I listen to curious, unhappy stories about my neighbor, and I am not distressed; I remain quite undisturbed or, what is still worse, I find a sort of pleasure…
Guest blogger, Emma, shares her adoption story that is truly a love story. Also, catch the last three parts of my family’s adoption story at the end.
