 The tail end of May is the perfect time to start over with goal setting and evaluating personally, professionally, and spiritually for ourselves, families, churches and communities. Let’s take June to reset. Summer is the season to REFRESH. I published this ebook last year but I always hit mid year and I’m ready to shut down a bit and release things I don’t want to carry into the next season. NOW is the time for us to talk about: ☀️ Releasing busyness, confusion, and clutter ☀️ Asking God what He wants for us and our family. ☀️ Discovering what role we play in our community, home, or workplace. ☀️ Deciding who can we intentionally impact in the year to come. ☀️ Determining how we can practically apply the Word of God to our every day life. That’s why I created a summer edition of my Refresh ebook and it’s yours for free! If you’ve been a subscriber, you may have already read through this. And if you’re new here. The invitation is the same. Let’s dive into all God has for us this summer as we place it all in His hands. **This is my summer sign off for Miracle in the Mess. We’ll be back with more blogs in September! Until then, catch up on anything you missed: Miracle in the Mess Blogs
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 This weekend, my husband and I celebrate twelve years of marriage.
Twelve years of laughter, babies, prayers, disappointments, healing, forgiveness, inside jokes, hard conversations, and grace upon grace. And when I think about our marriage now, I don’t picture perfection. I picture a broken jar. Here’s why…  Failed? Failed!!!!
The nurse couldn't be serious. I’d never failed anything in my life and there I sat, in the doctor's office, being told I failed my first glucose test. My reward? I got to come back for another test. But this one was bigger and badder. I had to drink so much sugar and wait so many hours and get my finger pricked so many times. Failing is always the worst. Maybe, like me, you failed your first glucose test. Or possibly you’re dealing with another difficult test in life or motherhood. There are so many things in this season that seem to slap the “failure” label across our foreheads. But一 what if we’ve been mislabeling ourselves?  “I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.”
-Philippians 4:11, NIV “I have learned to be content in all things...” Hahaha! Just kidding. I have not learned this. I always want more out of life. Not in a materialistic way, but in a I-want-to-drink-in-life-from-a-fire-hose kind of way. I’m constantly wondering if the grass is greener on the other side, trying to plan what's next on the schedule for my kids, dreaming about the future, and striving to achieve. What I’m really asking is, can I have my cake, my family’s cake, some other cake samples, and eat it too? However, what Paul is sharing in Philippians 4 is the key to contentment that I think most of us are missing. |
