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I Wanna Do It!
When I set him down in the big boy swing, the first thing he said was “I wanna do it… I wanna do it!” It’s become his favorite phrase. At first, I started pushing him, knowing that he would need my help to get started. Then after listening to him fight me for about a minute, I let go. At first he kept swinging along just fine. Then he started slowing down, little by little, until finally… He stopped. Then he got angry again. “Help me, Mommy!” Does this sound familiar? As I wrestled this end-of-the-world problem with my 2-year-old, I realized that this is how it is with God and me. He wants to help me. He wants to push me, to...
Read MoreWorship Wednesday: Fragility vs. Ability
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted. Funny how vacation gets me into more of a creative place. For the trip down, I added a bunch of Caedmon’s Call tunes to my travel playlist. Caedmon’s is my favorite band of all time and several of the songs on the playlist have hit me in a new way this week. In fact, the next few posts will be centered around lessons from these songs. Jar of Clay is the first. It’s an old one (and, in my opinion, from their best songwriting period). I’ve been noticing lately how much about my life is hard… unwilling to be softened by my Creator God. It’s not how I want to be, but for some reason the...
Read MoreThat Familiar Strip of Road
This is one of the posts from a series I did a couple of years ago called “31 Days to a Planted Mind.” Within the next month or so, it’s going to be published as an e-book Bible study and I wanted to give you all a little taste of what’s inside. This particular post is a reminder of how important it is for us to let God’s word be constantly fresh in our lives. Hope it speaks to you as it did to me this morning… ———————— Several months ago I got a speeding ticket. In a school zone. Ouch. I was just minding my own business driving along a very familiar strip of road, when all of a sudden I...
Read MoreForgetting The Cupcakes
It was Jeffrey’s 8th birthday… and Mommy woke up with a terrible headache. Jeff sweetly told me he would take Jeffrey to school, so I hugged Jeffrey, took some ibuprofen, and went back to bed. A little while later, Jeff came into the room and said “Jeffrey said he needs cupcakes by 10:00.” My first thought was not “Oh no, I forgot Jeffrey’s cupcakes.” It was “I’m going to be late to work.” Then I started crying. What is wrong with my brain? My heart and mind have been so consumed elsewhere lately that I seriously forgot my son’s cupcakes? And then my mind STILL went to work first? I have a tendency to jump...
Read MoreShow Me Your Heart. Love Your Husband.
This Martha girl doesn’t often stop to let God say what He will to her heart. It’s usually hurry-up-and-get-time-with-Jesus-before-the-kids-wake-up. There are rare times (like tonight) when I get to go to The Bucks and spend alone time with Him, but these moments are easy. They don’t require a lot of intentionality on my part. They don’t really require me to MAKE time in my day, in my chaos. But a couple of weeks ago, the intentionality happened. I knew I needed a word from Him and was willing to wait until it came. So I offered the prompt: “I really want to do what You want. What do You need from me?” He gave me two...
Read MoreDefinition of a Failed Day
I realized something about myself a couple of days ago. In my quirky, perfectionistic, self-centered brain, if one little thing in my day doesn’t go exactly how I planned it, the whole day immediately becomes stamped with failure. Oh the blindness. Oh the ME-ness. That evening, I was beating myself up, literally fighting back tears because of a couple of things that didn’t go right through the day (in my eyes). My flesh wanted to jump to the defense. Insecurity stood up and anchored itself in the ugly bullying role it plays as one of my biggest strongholds. I forgot again that God is my defense. He IS my stronghold. All other strongholds must go away in His...
Read MoreWelcome!
I'm so glad you're here. My name is Paula, a servant to Jesus, wife to Jeff, and mom to 3 kids age 8 and under. I love music, baseball, and coffee... in no particular order!My hope is that you will find this as a place of community, as we learn together to plant ourselves as "oaks of righteousness" (Isaiah 61:3).
Life is a tough journey, but with Christ in the center, we can learn to embrace the place He has given us... to plant ourselves in His word and to grow as we go.
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