His Purpose, Not My Plans

First: I have added something new to my blog.. if you see the right hand side of the page, there is a spot to put in your name and email. This goes straight to me, and it just means that you are subscribing to my blog. Then, when I post a new blog, it gets emailed straight to you! Moving up in the world here on the blog. Anyways, I'm involved in exciting, overwhelming plans for the New Year and today the full force of discouragement hit me like a train. I often wonder if it's worth it, if the blogging, and the speaking, and the many different service things I'm involved with are actually doing anything. And so while I hope this letter encourages you (as all of my writings are meant to).. it's more or less a letter from me to me, on a day where I have been drowning in worries of the unknown. To those who want to make a difference: Hey, you. Yes, yes, you. Do I have your attention now? I know that lately you've been down on yourself a lot about what you...

Hello there everyone. Bet you didn't expect to hear from me again this month, did ya? That's the best thing about having my own blog-- I can write whenever and whatever I feel like the Lord is leading me to write. And sometimes that means three blogs in a month, so here we are. This is a topic I've had on my mind for a while. Ever since I wrote my "Dear Friend" letter back in September. And I asked for a lot of help on it, from some of my dearest friends who I know love Jesus with all their hearts. As a disclaimer, this isn't all the knowledge on all these subjects. This is just what I feel like is on my heart to share, and my viewpoint. So that's that. I hope it can speak to you, or your daughters, or wives, or best friends and that you'll share, share, share it. Thanks for always believing in me, y'all. Here we go, again. A letter to the girls who love Jesus in this dark, crazy world:   Hey there, friend. I've been thinking abo...

hello all. It's rare that I post blogs so close together, it seems that life is so crazy busy these days.  But every now and then I get an idea in my head.. and I can't let it go, and that's when I know that I need to stop and type it up. So even though I really should be studying for exams right now, I'm gonna take a short study break and write another letter.  And I'll go ahead and be honest by saying this is the one I've shed the most tears while writing.  Good tears. I doubt it will have the same affect on you that perhaps another letter has had, but I hope you can appreciate it all the same.  To the one who is both judge and jury, good cop and bad cop:  There's no sugarcoating it. You have a hard job. Not your actual job, which is incredibly challenging on its own (but you rock it).  Your home job. Your parent job. The whole doing both mom and dad job.  You buy groceries and clean the house before and after wor...