Are you facing a tough transition where your faith is being tested? I have had many tough transitions in my life, yet they have helped me trust God more.
Challenging Transitions
The transitions I’ve faced have been very challenging. These are some of the toughest ones I’ve gone through, and maybe you have faced similar ones:
- My parents’ divorce when I was 4 years old
- Moving from my grandparents’ home when I was 8 years old
- Transitioning from private school to public school at age 13
- Moving six hours away from home in college
- Broken friendships
- Challenges in extended family relationships
- A brief marriage separation
- Working outside the home/work-at-home mom/stay-at-home mom
- Transitioning from a mom of littles to a mom of tweens and teens
Though these transitions were difficult, they all held great potential for growing my faith. By studying the Bible, praying, and meditating on God’s Word, I learned how to look at life’s transitions with a more hopeful view.
Your Life Transitions
I don’t know which transition you’re facing now, but I know that you are looking for hope and greater faith if you are still reading. I want to offer you encouragement in a convenient form that fits your busy life.
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Are your stressful thoughts on a replay loop in your mind? My thoughts often circle in a stressful loop, which drains my energy and saps my peace.
Even though I still struggle with stressful thoughts, I’ve learned to control them with God’s help. He has set me free from my most common stressful thoughts through the power of his Word.
Today I’m writing about how you can break free from stressful thoughts at Woman 2 Woman Ministries. Here’s a peek at my post, and I hope you’ll head over to read the rest.
If you are facing one of life’s transitions, God can use it to grow your faith. My faith has grown through both the good transitions and the hard transitions, because God used them to draw me closer to him.
Maybe you are facing a hard transition right now. I understand how it’s hard to find hope in one of life’s tough transitions. But if you look closely enough, you will see that God is using your current transition to grow your faith and build your character.
Today’s post is based on chapter 16 of my book, Newness of Life.
How is new life rising from old stumps in your current season?
What I’ve learned about stumps in the past 12 years of living in the woods is this:
New life will always sprout up if roots are intact.
The roots of our trees run deep, fifty feet or more. Those roots enable the trees to leaf out season after season, bringing newness of life year after year. Unless the roots are permanently severed, the power of life will keep pushing forward.
Today’s post is based on chapter 15 of my book, Newness of Life.
At the dinner table this week, I considered how to tell a story about personal conflict in a way my children would understand.
I posed this scenario: