.Loved Relentlessly.

I have become determined this week to start working out again. I'm doing a kind of Crossfit -at-home kind of thing ( Crossfit is all the rage here in Charlotte...) and thus far, in all two days I have been doing the workouts, it is kicking my booty. But I kind of like hurting as I climb stairs or sit down in my car...when I know I deserve to hurt. There's nothing like hurting when you made the choice to hurt. Last night while reading I was struck by a scripture that convicted me even more in my determination to exercise - 2 Timothy 1:7 says, For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline . If I'm in the Spirit, self-discipline is something that He gives me. It's handed out to me - and I have to claim it. That makes it a choice, just like walking in the power and love of the Holy Spirit. It's not just going to come naturally to roll out of bed and do situps and pushups . The choice has to be made - my will h...

Dan and I shared an amazing time of fellowship with a friend of ours last night, and the theme of the conversations we had have been carried throughout my day today. I can't seem to stop thinking about everything we talked about. I was passionate about knowing God's heart before, but there is a kind of fellowship that leaves you hungry for more of what you have tasted... One of the things I took from our conversation last night was how much God has to offer us as His sons and daughters - what power, and authority, and ability to see people as they are in the Spirit, instead of just their physical selves. Romans 8:9 says, You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh, but in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. We tend to class people. Dan and I were talking tonight about how work and life and human beings can make a person cynical. And instead of seeing people in the Spirit - and choosing to minister to them in the Spirit - we see them as ...

Reason #1 I have been stuck in, what I have chosen to call, an 18 month writer's block. I have decided that the only way to force myself out of that condition is to force myself to write. So here I go. Reason #2 I have extremely interesting things to blog about in this season of my life (or, at least, things that I would enjoy blogging about). I am a wife, which means I cook things, and have husband-wife relationship discoveries, and house-cleaning mishaps, and grocery shopping stories. Among these every-day experiences there is revelation and adventure to be found. Reason #3 God is teaching me and growing me a ton in this season. Nothing like marriage to teach you how much you suck at being a nice person. But in that you also find a new appreciation for grace and unconditional love. Reason #4 There are always reasons, no matter the season, to be putting down on paper (er...cyber paper?) the new and deeper things that God is revealing to you about Himself through reasons 1-3 ...