Fighting Words Friday: If Any of You Lacks Wisdom, You Should Ask God
Is anyone else out there like me and terrible at making decisions? It's one of my least favorite qualities about myself. I can be extremely indecisive on making schedule/work decisions, on where to go to dinner, on how to have a hard conversation with someone, about what to cook for dinner, or how to parent!!!
Fighting Words Friday: Rejoice in the Lord Always
This is one of my favorite promises from God's word. Why? Because I've experienced peace when it made NO sense to have peace. As I've learned...slowly and steadily...over the years to rejoice, to turn to God even when my heart is absolutely breaking, even when I feel lost, and say "thank you that You are near...even here," I have been met over and over again by a peace that I know I didn't muster up on my own. No matter what we face in this life that so often breaks our hearts, we always have a reason to rejoice because "the Lord is near.”
Oh Lord, help me believe it. Help me turn to You when I am at the end of my rope, when worry and fret are sitting in the driver's seat of my life. Help me to to ask You for help, to move forward in gratitude, and to rejoice that You are near...no matter what. Replace all of my fear with deep peace.
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Fighting Words Friday: Your Word is a Lamp for My Feet, a Light on my Path
I’ll never forget walking into the arena for an Amy Grant show. I think I was 6 or 7. All I remember is Amy sitting on the front of the stage, and an arena full of people singing “Thy Word” with their hands raised in the air. I didn’t really understand the full meaning of what they were singing about at that point in my life, but it took my breath away then as a little girl, and it takes my breath away now.
FWF: Immeasurably More
Fighting Words Friday: Who I am That You are Mindful of Me
Fighting Words Friday: Love is Patient, Love is Kind
This verse has often completely convicted me because so many days I don’t live up to the ideals in this verse. I fall short. I lose my patience, speak an unkind word, find myself easily angered, etc. Does the list need to go on? You get it, right? Anyway, it’s been so sweet to remember that even though I often fail to live out of a place of love perfectly, there is a PERFECT PRESENCE OF LOVE who is ever with me and who is ever on my team.
Fighting Words Friday: I, Your God, Have a Firm Grip On You
I, your God,
have a firm grip on you and I’m not letting go.
I’m telling you, ‘Don’t panic.
I’m right here to help you.
- Isaiah 41:13 MSG
Do you ever feel like you are carrying ALL THE THINGS? Gripping tight, exhausted, and trying to hold it all together for both yourself and the people around you? Me too. I am not great at asking for help, and I often end up running myself into the ground because I just keep trying to muster up the strength/faith/courage to keep going. This is exhausting, and I’m reminded by this verse that I don’t have to carry on like that. What a relief to know that even when we are dropping all the balls, losing our minds, feeling weak, full of doubt or fear, plagued with anxiety or loneliness, God has a firm grip on us. He isn’t letting go. We don’t have to panic, because we have a kind and capable Help.
I ran across this beautiful verse when I was writing “I Will Carry You” with Ben Glover. We had set out to write a song for our daughters. I want all of my kids to know in the depths of their being that they are not alone, and that I’ll be forever in their corner, so “I Will Carry You” was born, but when I ran across this promise in God’s word, all of the sudden it shifted this song for me…reminded me once again that before I’m a mother or adult trying to carry all the things, including my children, I’m God’s kid, and He is an ever-present source of love and help and hope that will carry me when it feels like I can’t carry on any longer. Deeply grateful for this beautiful truth, and I hope this song will forever be a reminder to you that you will NEVER walk alone, and that you can fall apart in the arms of the One who holds all things together. Love will carry you through.