And some humour......

On God's Help.....and Community.

Every week I get Paul Tripp's Wednesday devotional/meditation.

I really appreciated this week's......

Here is the beginning.....

It's hard to admit your need for help. It's hard to admit that there are things you don’t know and don’t understand. It's hard to admit that there are things that you can’t do. It's hard to reach out and cry out for help.

It's hard to confess to weakness and ignorance. It's hard to have to depend on another for what you think you should be able to supply for yourself. It's hard to talk about what you don’t know and what you can’t do. It's hard to admit to poor judgment and wrong responses. It's hard to receive correction and to confess to sin.

 

Click HERE to read the rest of the article and more about the lies of autonomy and self-sufficiency, and the need of community.

 

 

 

Wow.

Link and "I won!"

I have linked a blog by Tim Challies here a number of times.  Each Friday he does "Free Stuff Fridays" where you simply enter you name and email to be randomly picked for a give away of usually a number of books.

Contrary to my usual tread I've actually won - TWICE!

The latest set of books from CCEF.  And although I already own most of the books I'm thrilled to have second copies to give away!

 

I read a nice article on parenting this morning.

You can read it HERE.

 

I particularly can relate to the part of friendships.  Those that I am closest to ARE the ones that I feel free to talk about the struggles in our home.   The ones where we intuitively realize that having a child toilet trained at 18 months in not the great mark of motherhood.  Or when we see each other's child(ren) have a particular "sin" struggle we can encourage each and even share our own ways to overcome. 

And mostly we pray for each other (realizing our need for God more and more), even in the times when we don't know specifics of a trial, but have been invited in each other's lives with the "snip-its" here and there.

I am so ever thankful that I have fellow moms, friends and family like this.

You know who you are!

Thank-you!