I hope you will join me! You can find me back at my old site at http://www.satisfiedbylove.blogspot.com. I’ve found it much easier to get help with things there because I know more folks who use it. And I think I’m finally satisfied with my design! …For now…
Grace, peace, and blessings to you today…
Emily
“We each have had seasons where we were trapped in our sin. It is a conscious choice we make to walk away from those places. More often than not, we walk away and then look back because we wonder if we belong there more than here in the land of freedom.
Do not allow yourself to be consumed by your sin, or convinced that you have done something that could so separate you from the Lord that you cannot be restored by Him through Jesus.”
What Women Fear by Angie Smith
Zechariah 9:9 “Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
John 12:14-15 “Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written…”
God spoke it through Zechariah and Jesus fulfilled it. That’s what He does. He brings the Bible to life. It’s not a book of stories or a list of guidelines. It’s His story and it’s our story and it’s the living, breathing Word of Life…
And what if I live like I believe it today?
Acts 1:8 “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you…”
Romans 6:18 ”You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”
Ephesians 2:8-9 “…it is the gift of God-not by works…”
Philippians 4:4-7 “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
Proverbs 31:25 “She is clothed with strength and dignity.”
Galatians 6:9 “…at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
Hebrews 4:16 “Let us then approach the throne of race with confidence.”
These words can be shown true in my own life if I choose to believe them. There is evidence throughout this Book that God keeps His word. Will I live like I believe it? Not based on what I feel, but on what I know to be true?
You may have seen it before but can you hear it enough?
You are all this and more, O God. There are things about you we can’t even imagine. And it brings my heart to worship. Teach me to live in belief, trusting Your word is true and it will happen as you have said…
When someone you love calls to tell you they’ve had 2 scans because of a spot on their chest and are in process of scheduling a third, the air seems to leave your chest and your gut ties itself in a not.
Or maybe that’s just me. My mind has been a fog since. One minute I’m reminding myself we don’t know anything definite and the next my chest caves in as I block out the picture of a world without her. That world seems forever away and nearly impossible.
I just read a chapter in a book about fear of death and my pastor preached a sermon that included the same fear. But that fear has a different face when the one wearing it doesn’t know Christ.
My quiet time today included these verses:
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
Psalm 42:5-6 “Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you…”
Choosing life today, and choosing to remember You…
#74 Being able to love our little one through a messy night
#75 Phone minutes shared with friends
#76 Overage charges on the phone bill
#77 Candlelit worship
#78 The one who comes home to me every evening
#79 Communion
#80 Gray October days
#81 Hard phone calls
#82 Prayer
#83 Hope
#84 The Gospel
#85 The hardest one…that scary spot on her chest
Thank you, Lord, for these.
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I am the mom of an almost 2-year-old daughter. Have I mentioned that before? 
This little girl loves to…
say hi to perfect strangers
give “moochies” to her favorite people
be talked to and loved on
wear beautiful dresses (which could be pants, shirts, sweaters, or actual dresses)
splash in the water
eat…especially chocolate
help with dishes and laundry and cooking
visit with friends
make conversation
dance
And I have the potential to squash it all. To create insecurities in her that quench all of these desires. One of these could be a gift that leads her to know God’s calling in her life in a deeper way.
In So Long Insecurity another mom makes a comment when she finds out she is going to have a daughter of her own: “A girl. A girl. Oh, man. I’m going to have to deal with some of my stuff.”
When I knew we were having a girl one of the first things that occurred to me was to ask my husband to call me on looking at myself in the mirror or standing in front of my closet complaining about my weight or any other physical aspect of myself. I don’t want her to grow up with a mom constantly talking about her weight or her dieting plans or her flabby arms or her too-big thighs or too small behind (though I’ve never found myself complaining about that one). I want her to grow up healthy and to think less about how she looks according to this world and more about the condition of her heart.
I don’t want her to do an art project that receives praise from many people but criticism from few, and cling to the few.
I don’t want her to celebrate every milestone in life by going out to eat and nursing every wound by doing the same. I don’t want her emotions to be tied to food.
I don’t want to criticize her every time she tries to help me with something so that she learns to despise keeping a home.
And I don’t want her looking for love or acceptance in dark traps because the light wasn’t on here with us.
“We must ask Him to bring forth the women in us that we didn’t even know we were-women of substance and confidence…”
(Beth Moore)
This is what I want. To be this example for my daughter. Not of perfection because I want her to learn honesty. But when I do struggle I want her to know there is only One who can truly meet my needs, and hers. To know that our confidence, our hope, our help, our security, our significance comes from Christ alone. Because we are both the daughters of the King.
I am so grateful for a husband who gives our child a loving vision of a father. That his actions inside and outside our home would lead her toward Jesus. But he isn’t perfect either. And she’ll know that one day. And I pray she will turn to the One who is.
I simply want her to love God and to delight in His Word. If she does the truth will be hidden in her always and when lies are fired at her she will be able to shield herself in the battle and retreat to safety when she needs rest.
Lord, make me a woman of substance and confidence, strength and dignity. A woman who sets a good example for her daughter and any other young ladies that I might influence. And please, may this sweet little girl you have placed in our home find her identity in You.
