New Focus

I wanted to start reading Captivating, but the library doesn't have any copies available :-(  Actually, the only copy they have is a month overdue...so yea...

I'm in a frustrating stage of life where I really need to refocus on my most difficult spiritual growth area - giving up control and asking God to take my worries and frustrations off of my shoulders.  So, in that spirit, have either of you heard of a book that might fit that theme that you would be interested in exploring with me?  I definitely want to get the blog going again, but only a once-a-week thing.

Some of the other options we discussed before were: So You Don't Want To Go To Church Anymore, My Utmost for His Highest, The Sacred Romance, and Heaven Is For Real.

Some other options I found that might be good: God's Outrageous Claims, Jesus Calling, and Outlive your Life.

Let me know what you think!

Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will direct your paths.

Proverbs 3, 5-6 

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

Prayers Answered

The reflective season of Lent gave way to the joy and uncertainty of Easter. The hot July sun makes winter and spring feel like a distant past. It is the long season of Pentecost, a time of working out your call with the help of the Holy Spirit.

My longings and waiting of Lent has been answered and my life transformed. No longer pregnant, I carry little Andrew around in my arms. No longer wondering what will happen with Ulrich's work, he has quit his job and launched his own company. And in all of this God has been with us.

We often hear "Be still and know that I am God." I think my call for the past few months has been, "Be busy and know that I am God." I think this is a harder call. In the midst of the busyness to still recognize God's work in our life. I have seen it. In the way he pulled my family together and held us up at the loss of precious Micah Jon, in the way he's provided exactly what we need, when we need it, in how easy going and healthy Andrew has been so I could have the energy to focus on and take care of things that have come us even with a newborn strapped to my chest.

God is with us. In death and new life. In risks. In love. Always.

Something I've been pondering...

If the stance of the church is that the Bible, in its entirety, is the infallible word of God - why is there a distinction made by standing during the reading of the Gospels?  How could any part of the Bible be more important than another if it is all the word of God?