Did you choose a focus verse for the new year? If you didn’t choose one yet, I have practical suggestions for helping you choose a verse. By choosing a Bible verse to meditate upon all year, your faith will grow in surprising ways.
Guest Posts
When Winter Blues Affect Your Marriage
During the shorter, darker days of winter, the winter blues affect not just me, but my marriage. It’s bad enough when I struggle with winter blues, but since my husband also struggles with them, our marriage suffers a double whammy.
Over the years, I’ve learned ways to cope with the winter blues and even fight back with healthy methods. I’m sharing them today at A Wife Like Me. Here’s a peek at my post, and I hope you’ll head over to read the rest.
How to Find Comfort and Joy When Sorrow Persists
Though Christmas is a wonderful time of the year, it’s not always easy to find comfort and joy if your heart is weighed down in sorrow, unless you ask God for help.
This year, I’m grieving a living death. The sorrow rises up from a deep spring, unbidden. It sometimes pours out in the very moment I’m rejoicing over God’s blessings. As I look at Christmas lights, enjoy hot tea and cookies, or listen to Christmas music, my sorrow suddenly threatens my peace.
5 Easy Ways to Reflect on the Past Year
As this year draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on the blessings of past year.
Every year I gain greater peace by setting aside one day of reflection to thank and praise God for all his goodness to me. I have many reasons to praise him for what he did this year.
How to Praise God with Your Creative Gifts
Do you know that your creative gifts can help you praise God?
We are made in the image of God, who is the Creator of all things. We all have creative gifts that can move us to praise him and reflect his glory to others.