Hi, you are not alone! Life often feels like obe big guessing game, fumbling my way through places I've never been, navigating my way along a high rope bridge over a vast canyon woth a blindfold on. "They" call it parenting. For me, it's also called home educating or homeschooling. Today's Word of encouragement is from the apostle (church teacher and leader) Paul, who confesses *he* had an unspecified handicap which he begged God to remove three times. God never did. (2 Corinthians 12:7-10.) We all have things in our lives we can beg God to take from us, things we repeated fail at, struggle with, feel guilt and shame over. Sometimes God's power comes into those situations and smashes them to bits for us, freeing us instantly. Sometimes God does that, and we fall the same exact way again. And he picks us up again and dusts us off. Sometimes we pray and beg and hear nothing. Silence. Rejection, it feels like. Hopelessness, it feels like. A baby dies in the womb. A loving spouse turns out to be a controlling abuser who traps you in your own home. You're adult child is on drugs. Depression. Pride. Fear.
My goal in this blog is to walk side-by-side with you, hoping you will allow me to hold your hand, rejoice with you, cry with you and grow with you and you grow with me.
2 Corinthians 12:7-10
"My grace is enough; it’s all you need.
My strength comes into its own in your weakness. Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ’s strength moving in on my weakness. Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size—abuse, accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the weaker I get, the stronger I become."
Let me know where you are today in a comment or private message.
Sparkle bright with the Light of Christ,
Jamie
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