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When You Don't Know God's Purpose for Your Life

7/12/2018

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Remember getting asked that question as a kid?

I know I gave different answers over the years of my childhood. I went through a phase of obsession with ballet, but never took any lessons. I probably wanted to be a princess at one point or another. When I got into my teen years, my aspirations became a bit more realistic, though I never stuck with one; the answer changed frequently.

That is, until the summer before my senior year of high school, when the real answer to this question came hitting me right between the eyes: I don’t know.

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To the Woman Who is Waiting for Something (part 3): how to wait on the Lord with patience & purpose

5/24/2018

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So many of us are waiting for something, and as we wait we can easily become discouraged and discontent and defeated.

We can wonder, “When will the waiting end?” We can struggle to see the good. We can question if God is hearing our prayers. We can feel like we’re missing out. We can want to give up.

And so I wrote this series to you, the woman who is waiting for something (whatever that something might be) to encourage you in the waiting, on the good days when your faith is strong and your heart is content, and on the hard days when some doubts whisper and your heart hurts.

God has been teaching me much about waiting, giving me encouragement as I go through my own time of waiting, helping me to trust Him while I wait, and changing how I view waiting.

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To the Woman Who is Waiting for Something (Part 2): lies about waiting & the truth we can stand on & wait in

5/10/2018

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Many of us are waiting for something. Healing, direction, Mr. Right, a place to call home, the ending of a hard season, a friend, peace to settle in the heart, an answer to prayer, conflict to be resolved, a dream to be fulfilled…

What is the thing you’re waiting for?

Waiting can be hard, and that’s why I’m writing this series, to the woman who is waiting for something. So even when the waiting is hard and long, we can still have hope and joy, and we can see that times of waiting can actually be good.

Because the enemy would have us believe that waiting isn’t good, that God isn’t good in those times of waiting.

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To the Woman Who Is Waiting For Something (Part 1): how times of waiting can actually be good

4/26/2018

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There is nothing quiet like waiting for spring.

Even when the calendar says it’s spring, the weather can keep winter around longer than the winter-weary and spring-ready would like. There are glimpses of spring; warming days and melting snow and green shoots telling of it’s nearness. But then snow falls again, and we find ourselves waiting again for the so close spring that the appearance of robins and geese flying north promise will come.

Then, it finally arrives. The snow melts and the green takes over. The wait is over.

Waiting. A season of in-between, not still in that cozy winter mood, but not quite able to step into spring.

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To the Woman Who Feels Broken Beyond Repair: experiencing God's redeeming work in our lives

4/5/2018

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All of us have a story. A past, a present, a future.

There’s a lot that tries to write our story for us. Shame, suffering, brokenness, seasons of waiting, insecurities, unfulfilled longing, loneliness, hurts, fears, conflict, failures, rejections, poor choices, loss, worries, disappointments.

We can feel shame about our past. We can have struggles and suffering in the present. We can be scared about our future.

Life can be messy. Our stories can be messy. We can be messy.

And the enemy tries to use the mess to write a story of messy brokenness. He tries to write labels on us, so we’ll live in the broken places, named as Broken Beyond Repair.

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When You Don't Know God's Purpose for Your Life

To the Woman Who is Waiting for Something (part 3): how to wait on the Lord with patience & purpose

To the Woman Who is Waiting for Something (Part 2): lies about waiting & the truth we can stand on & wait in

To the Woman Who Is Waiting For Something (Part 1): how times of waiting can actually be good

To the Woman Who Feels Broken Beyond Repair: experiencing God's redeeming work in our lives

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