God has blessed me with this opportunity to minister to you. I have no idea how many are touched or even read what I write yet week after week God has something for me to share with you. My life is far from perfect. I am an imperfect wife and mother who makes many mistakes yet God has asked me to step out and share my life so that I can direct others back to the Cross as my daily life experiences do to me. It's not easy to make myself vulnerable yet I need to continually give this struggle to Jesus.

"Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored. "
~ Titus 2:3-5

I never thought that God would use me to bless others. Each week each of us writers pour words out that God has impressed on our hearts. We don't know who we reach. We don't know how many read what we write. What we do know is that God has called each of us to share with you. We are human and can become insecure about our writings or that our writings are in vain. God has called us for a purpose and through that may He be glorified! Our prayer is that God is touching you through our lives and words. We are ordinary women living an extraordinary life because of Jesus. You can have that same joy....

You may not see yourself as someone to look up to. I definitely don't. I make so many mistakes that I wonder why God allows me each week to direct you and me back to His word through my life. I never saw myself as someone who could teach others about this great love of Jesus. These verses in Titus have encouraged me to be real and raw... so that through my weaknesses I have been strengthened through Christ who gives me all strength.

I want to encourage you as women to ask God who you can bless today.
Who can you encourage to love her husband and children?... to find joy in serving in her house?
How can you honour God today?

My prayer is that through your life God will use you to be a living testimony of who Jesus is. Let others see that and be blessed.

Dear Sisters....

Have you ever been surrounded by people but felt completely alone? I used to wonder how I could walk into a church, a place I was supposed to 'belong', and feel the ache of loneliness cast a shadow over my heart.

I think we can all feel lonely at different times for different reasons, but it is something that we are not supposed to live with all the time.

I have loved Jesus for as long as I can remember, but it wasn't until I gave Him the deepest part of my heart that I began to notice that the feeling of loneliness wasn't visiting me as often. As I meditated on His words in the Bible, talked with Him and shared my everyday life with Him, He began to imprint on my heart the truth of who I am in this world and where I belong.

I will never be alone because His Spirit is my closest companion. And no matter where I go, I am His and I belong.

In Isaiah 43:1, the Lord speaks His heart to us when He says..... "Fear not, for I have redeemed you, I have called you by name, you are mine."

When we are able to see....and then step...beyond ourselves and encourage and care for others around us, we realize even more so, that we are not alone. Most women struggle through a lot of the same things...like loneliness, fear, a lost sense of belonging, etc.

I believe God calls us as sisters of all ages to care for one another and encourage one another and build each other up in our faith. Philippians 2:1-2 says..."So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind." Then in verse 4, it says..."Let each of you look not only to his (or her) own interest,but also to the interest of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus..."

It fills my heart with joy to already see this happening among us....I see women coming alongside their sisters praying for them, caring for their hearts and for their physical needs as well. I see the older women coming alongside the younger women and encouraging them. I see younger women loving the older women and respecting them. It is a beautiful thing and I know it blesses the Heart of Jesus when He sees His children loving each other.

So...dear sisters...

"Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing." 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Blessed be the name of the Lord.