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Learning To Have Difficult Conversations

by | Jul 22, 2023 | communication

Wisdom from Dr.Henry Cloud: “Learning to have a difficult conversation helps you solve problems. Now, this seems obvious, but it’s an important benefit of confrontation. Boundary conversations are geared towards addressing and resolving an issue that is keeping...

Silver Anniversary Remembered

by | Jul 22, 2023 | marriage, memories

26 years ago today-(July 22,1997) This was our 25th wedding anniversary, celebrated at my parents’ home in Georgia, near Newnan and Peachtree City…with our sweet little rescue terrier mix, Abby. The fact that we made it through that particular year was...

Still…. Happy Anniversary-ing

by | Jul 19, 2023 | marriage

As a significant date is near……remembering. 7/22/22 is the 50 year anniversary of marriage to Bill, my husband who died of COVID 8/6/20, 2 weeks after our 48th. Marriage is a journey in growing individually, together, and in Christ. There’s nothing...

Lament

by | Jul 19, 2023 | Suffering

Loss and lament bring opportunities to be drawn deeper into the loving heart of God the Father, into the mind of Jesus Christ Man of Sorrows, into the comfort of the Holy Spirit consolation…….who know both intimately. (CBByrd 7/19/22) Tonight a small group...

When Testing Comes

by | Jul 15, 2023 | Teaching

Here’s another “ponderable” that arose from a conversation today….One person has stated that “life is a test” and she sees everything through the lens of being tested. I asked if she felt the tests were from the devil or from God....

Fullness of Christ

by | Jul 14, 2023 | Bible Study

Ephesians 4:11-13 NIV So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the...

Self-Awareness Versus Other-Awareness

by | Jul 13, 2023 | Ministry

Of the many objections that some members of the Board of Ministry of The UMC lobbed at me one after another over the final three years of the nine year journey in its determination to thwart my pursuit of ordination, perhaps the most amusing was that I lacked...

Launching Them Out Into The Water

by | Jul 9, 2023 | family, growth

Elisabeth Elliot Quotes “There comes a time – many times, actually – in the lives of our children where we have to put the basket in the water. We have to let go and trust the plan of the Father. The world is a scary place – a place where we fear our...

Reframing The Kingdom of God

by | Jul 9, 2023 | God's attributes

One of my very favorite devotional writers- Jill Carattini always challenges one to think! And one of my favorite topics….the revelation of God in Christ! Minds Upset Wherever one might be in declarations of belief, God is so often not the God these declarations...