You Don’t Need To Explain Yourself All The Time, Don’t Need To Be Liked By Everyone. Those Are Unrealistic

So many churches are raising young people to see the Holy Spirit as a force that primarily exists to make you “feel things” in worship. That you know you’ve been Touched™ because you have goosebumps and feel like crying or whatever.

I’m not downplaying the emotional impact an encounter with the spirit can illicit. That’s real. But when we place such an emphasis on our human response, we can make people who don’t experience these heightened emotions feel like they aren’t being filled with the spirit.

I’ve seen it happen before. “I felt nothing in worship”, “I’m in a spiritual rut”, “Why aren’t I being filled?”. The spirit is so much more than what you feel on a Sunday. Look at your fruits, look at God’s work in your life. That’s where you’ll find evidence of the spirit.

Consider God's word in all you do.

The FIRST thing the devil did in the Bible was say “wow I can’t believe God would say something so unreasonable” and God did absolutely not say that.

It’s LITERALLY the oldest trick in The Book™️

And so many people are still falling for it.

The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead. -Tim Keller

My home isn't perfect. It's cosy. It's clean but I don't use tons of chemical products and don't spend my time scrubbing. Thus, it does show some wear and tear.

Most of my energy is poured in being present, nurturing my family and taking care of them.

I'm not aiming to make my home picture perfect. Clean but living and functionable.

You can linger here. You can grow here.

We're not posing as a perfect family in a perfect home.

We are living, breathing and laughing together.

For all my fellow oversharers out there.