A Light in the Darkness

My two and half year old son loves to ride in his daddy's truck. When he sees his daddy's truck he asks "can I ride in daddy's truck?" So we asked him what he liked so much about riding in his daddy's truck and he said "because I like to ride beside daddy." I started thinking about that in terms of my life. I asked myself "how many times do I sit in the passenger's seat and let Jesus take the wheel?" Not to often. So I started thinking what are some ways that I can seat in the passenger seat and let Jesus drive for a while. For starters I can pray more often. I can read my bible more. I put what I have learned from Jesus into action instead of just head knowledge. So how often do you seat in the passenger's seat and  let Jesus drive? What are some ways you can take the passenger's seat and let Jesus have the wheel? In everything you do, put God first, and He will direct you and crown your efforts with success - Proverbs 3:6 ...

What do you when you feel far away from your spouse. Hum!? Well there are I think two things you can do: you can either continue to feel far away and let that gap get bigger or you find out what is causing the gap and do something about it. I think every person who is married goes through this in their marriage from time to time. So when you get to this place don't feel guilty about it, do something about it, because it is not a matter of if it happens again but rather when it happens again. As a worship pastor's wife, you may think that we as a couple never go through this. WRONG!!! We have been through this many times and know that their will be plenty of times to come. The first time we really went through this,we had been married almost two years, I felt guilty about it and instead of doing something about it, I just let that gap get bigger and we nearly lost the marriage. After that we went to counseling and got close again, but I started really taking a look at what ca...

In every little girls fantasy they dream of being Cinderella and being whisked away by that dreamy knight and shining armor. Sadly as they get older and life has taken many turns, that Cinderella story slowly fades. As the little girl gets older and becomes an adult that thought of being Cinderella is still there but many times they think it was just a good story never to happen to them. But every once in a while however that dream of being Cinderella actually happens and she does get whisked away by her knight and shining armor. This is my story of how I became Cinderella and how I found my knight and shining armor. As a little girl I had pretty much the same life as any other girl would have, playing dolls, dress up, and watching those great princess shows. As I became a teen my life changed, for the next ten years or so I lived a life of hell on earth being physically and mentally abused by my father. The dream of ever being Cinderella seemed to be just another fairytale only to b...

My son is 2 and a half years old. We were talking the other day and he started saying "Jesus." I asked him if he knew who Jesus is, he said "no." I said "do we pray everyday to Jesus?" He said "yeah." Then I started telling him a little more about Jesus and then I started thinking: "it is so great to finally be able to hold a little conversation with my son" and then thought "I wonder if this is how Jesus feels when one of His children finally understand who He is and He can finally start having a conversation with one of His children."

I have a brilliant idea for all of us married people out there. This is for all of us married people that have ever had an argument or fight with our spouse. Since we all from time to time have spats with our spouses (if you don't somethings not right!! :)) I have a perfect solution. 1st of all make sure your kids are in the bed for the night or taking a nap, then both of you go to your bedroom, take all your clothes off, hold hands, pray, and hug. Now after doing that see if you still want to fight. I bet you anything you will skip the fight and go straight to the makeup part. If after taking all these steps and you still want to fight, put your clothes back on, grab your bible, tell your spouse you will be back and go have a heart to heart with Jesus. Once this is done come back to your spouse and repeat the process. More times than not I bet that fight won't happen and if it does, it will be so little that you be able to talk it out in the arms of your spouse. Makes perfect ...

I had to take my little girls fingers away from her today. She is 4 months old and loves to suck on her fingers and they are beginning to get raw so I had to cover her hands up. Man she did not like that at all. She threw a fit and cried for quite some time so I just held her in my arms. As I was holding her and wiping her little tears from her eyes I started thinking about all the times in the future I maybe doing the same thing like when her best friend doesn't want to be friends anymore or when that guy she thought she loved turned out to be something different. All these thoughts were running through my mind and I then started to smile because thankfully with my little girl she not only has me but she has an amazing daddy as well. I do believe that mommies are great (since I am one) but daddies are just as great or even greater in the eyes of their daughter. A daughter will either have great confidence in herself and know she is loved and knows that she deserves to be loved o...

I was talking to a lady today about church and she said she didn't go to church. I then started talking to her about my church and how awesome it is and that she could come visit us anytime. She then told me that she had had a bad run in with church so she would rather not go. She then said "I am not a religious person" I said "good because I'm not either, I just love Jesus." She kind of looked at me weird but oh well. I then told her that she could even look us up on line and watch us that way if she wanted to since she said she would rather pray behind closed doors, she looked at me even weirder and said "wow the church has made it to the internet, there just everywhere."  After talking to her I started thinking about somethings, 1st of all why would you decide not to go to church based on one or two bad experiences. When you think about it, it really doesn't make since. Let me relate this to a bank. If you have one or two bad experiences wi...