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Are you a tree that will topple in the storm?
Can you “Choose Joy” in the midst of your suffering?
Have you ever felt pushed to your limit? For me, the last three years of my life have been difficult…probably the most challenging years I have ever faced. My trial began in March, 2013 when my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. Eight months later my precious father-in-law lost his battle from bladder cancer. As if that weren’t enough trauma in my life, my brother-in law was diagnosed with cancer and only lived for five more months. I hate cancer.
There is a church that wants you
How should you leave a church?
A friend text messaged me recently asking, “How does one leave a church?” I don’t know that there is one right way. I only know how God led our family to leave a church 9 years ago.
Lessons Learned from the Wild Rumpus at Urgent Care
My recent wild rumpus was not in Times Square or at Walt Disney World, but at the Urgent Care in Wilmington, North Carolina. My feverish 7-year-old daughter had just finished an antibiotic for strep throat when her fever spiked and she complained of a sore throat. Honestly, I wanted to pretend I didn’t hear her. It was dinnertime, and instead of sitting down for spaghetti and meatballs, we loaded up in the minivan and headed to the doctor’s office. It was our third visit to the doctor for strep throat in three months.
Within 10 minutes of entering the exam room, the diagnosis was clear … strep throat … again. This time, instead of the pink liquid antibiotic, the doctor recommended an injection. The 7-year-old did NOT want a shot. Tears started streaming down her face. She cried so hard, she blew snot bubbles. It was sad.
Then, she stomped her foot and said, “I’m NOT getting a shot.”
Do you possess a “sweet reasonableness?”
These volunteers were late to a large event that I had coordinated. I had envisioned that the morning would go one way, but with volunteers dropping like flies, it turned out another way. Since they were late, I ended up taking care of their responsibilities instead of fulfilling my own. All of my perfectly crafted plans for a smooth event flew out the window and I was not happy. I was smiling on the outside, but I was angry on the inside.
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Today my body is at the end of its rope. I took my daughter up to Raleigh over the weekend to see her boyfriend at N. C. State. Saturday morning I felt a migraine coming on. I took some meds and prayed. Mid-morning we left the hotel and I took her to campus to hang out for a while with her man. As the morning continued, I felt worse and worse…nauseous, weak, and near fainting.
My plan is absolutely better than God’s
Have you ever had a disagreement with God? Many times there are things that God asks us to do and our pride and our flesh rise up in defiance. When I am at the altar on my knees I cry out “Not my will but Yours be done” but later when Gods asks me to do something hard, my flesh says, “Get lost, God.”
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