bread and water

Our family decided to do a seven day media fast. Hmmm. We were all in the car together on a long trip and that’s when we made the decision.  7 days. No TV. No  Facebook. No social apps.  I loved it!  The kids and my hubby did it also. They loved it too.  My teenager may have broken it a day or two early by watching a You Tube video. Ugh.  I had a desire maybe 3 different times to get on Facebook but I didn’t.  It was mostly when I was bored sitting at the table finishing eating I would want to scroll through or post something I was doing on Facebook. Instead I would either sit there and think or talk to one of my children.  It made us look at our kids faces more and we paid our kids and each other more attention.  That was the biggest thing I noticed that was a huge deal...looking into our children’s faces instead of at faces of people on a screen. The house was more peaceful.  Honestly, we kinda drea...

I have noticed that when Iʼm in pain it makes me irritable and miserable and mean to people. Especially people in my family. It has made me less patient, kind and understanding. It has interfered with my sleep, my rest and my fun. It makes me sad for people who deal with health issues all of the time. The past month I have had pain in my mouth, teeth, jaw and ear. Usually I donʼt ever take Tylenol or Ibuprofen but I have been taking them almost every day because the pain was too much to bear. I know itʼs nothing compared to what some people go through. I never thought about pain until I experienced it in my own body and then it became all I could think about. Now I have a new compassion and mercy for people who deal with pain on a regular basis. My heart goes out to people who live in chronic pain. “Pain can create sensitivity to othersʼ sufferings and a greater compassion can be learned from the keen awareness of oneʼs own trials.” Kate Kim Psalm 4:1 says, “Thou hast enlarge...

I donʼt know how you make decisions but when I am walking in the Spirit I listen to Godʼs still small voice. He speaks to me with a thought (voice) in my head. After walking with Jesus for 22 years Iʼve come to know what His still small voice sounds like. Of course it has to line up with the Bible. When Iʼm not in the Word (reading the Bible) and praying then I canʼt hear it as well. The other day we were trying to make a decision about a home and I kept hearing Godʼs still small voice but I wanted Him to give me something more. Sometimes I still question it. But then when I read my devotional it talked about Godʼs still small voice. I prayed and prayed and asked God questions and He would immediately answer me but I still doubted. Or maybe I just didnʼt like the answer He was giving me. When we were about to buy a house that I loved and we heard a still small voice tell us not to we couldnʼt figure out why. But we trusted and put faith in that still small voice and we didnʼt b...