This is a short video, just over three minutes long. I hope it will encourage you, as it has me.
What weakness is God calling you to turn over to him? What is as a “staff” in your life, instead of a “scepter?”
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AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!! And so very true! I can't even begin to tell you all of things that have come to my life over the past 16 yrs. Lots and lots of things that brought pain and fear and stress. At the time I was going through them wondered why. Why was God allowing so much to come into my life…every year brought some trauma. Well, toward the end of that season in my life He gave a glimpse of why when He called our family to full-time ministry. We are a young family…not as many life experiences as others, not as much wisdom gleaned, not as many years serving the Lord as some, but He called us. Now looking back I realize that all of those things that He had allowed into our lives were a crash course on many of the things that humanity faces. In our broken places we learned that His grace could flow through. Now, as we minister to others we have experiences from which to draw where we couldn't have otherwise. As of this moment one of my greatest remaining broken places is how I eat. I have been very transparent with my church family on my struggle with eating to the glory of God. I have asked for help and accountability. HOWEVER, I am finding that eating outside what we know we should is so common in the Christian world that very few feel comfortable engaging on this subject and even fewer are willing to have an ongoing conversation about it in order to hold me accountable. So, that's why I come to places like this and search for others going through a similar experience with food who are also longing to be free.
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!! And so very true! I can't even begin to tell you all of things that have come to my life over the past 16 yrs. Lots and lots of things that brought pain and fear and stress. At the time I was going through them wondered why. Why was God allowing so much to come into my life…every year brought some trauma. Well, toward the end of that season in my life He gave a glimpse of why when He called our family to full-time ministry. We are a young family…not as many life experiences as others, not as much wisdom gleaned, not as many years serving the Lord as some, but He called us. Now looking back I realize that all of those things that He had allowed into our lives were a crash course on many of the things that humanity faces. In our broken places we learned that His grace could flow through. Now, as we minister to others we have experiences from which to draw where we couldn't have otherwise. As of this moment one of my greatest remaining broken places is how I eat. I have been very transparent with my church family on my struggle with eating to the glory of God. I have asked for help and accountability. HOWEVER, I am finding that eating outside what we know we should is so common in the Christian world that very few feel comfortable engaging on this subject and even fewer are willing to have an ongoing conversation about it in order to hold me accountable. So, that's why I come to places like this and search for others going through a similar experience with food who are also longing to be free.
My struggle with food, body image, weight…
My struggle with food, body image, weight…
Hi, Peggy. So true! God uses all our experiences and does his amazing work. He uses the very things we wish we had never gone through. I am in awe of how he does that. I, too, wish Christian people understood this approach to eating better. Even my friends at church who I thought *did* refer to the new book I am writing as being a "diet" book. Ugh… 🙁 Oh well! God knows! Bless your heart for being so vulnerable with your church family. I have it in my head that you are a pastor's wife…do I have that right? (Don't know why I think that…)Denise – Oh yes…
Hi, Peggy. So true! God uses all our experiences and does his amazing work. He uses the very things we wish we had never gone through. I am in awe of how he does that. I, too, wish Christian people understood this approach to eating better. Even my friends at church who I thought *did* refer to the new book I am writing as being a "diet" book. Ugh… 🙁 Oh well! God knows! Bless your heart for being so vulnerable with your church family. I have it in my head that you are a pastor's wife…do I have that right? (Don't know why I think that…)Denise – Oh yes…