4:55 – Sing It, Feel It #faithbites #faithjourney feel Setting Today my eldest’s class presented the chapel message for her school. I struggled during the beginning to stay focused watching it online and not multitask. The first song was Lord I Lift Your Name On High, by MercyMe. I started just looking at the words on the screen and wasn’t […]
4:50 – Lion and Lambs: God’s Chosen. #faithbites #faithjourney lion Setting In Round Here, by the Counting Crows, they say we all talk like lions but sacrifice like lambs. The new testament often calls Jesus our shepard and we are his sheep. And yet, we look at the Lion as a sign of strength and the sheep as a sign […]
3:213 – And Peggy. You Are Not A Throwaway #faithbites #faithjourney #hamilton peggy Setting My best friend and daughter love the musical “Hamilton“. I haven’t seen it yet but they told me about a character named Peggy. Basically, in the song they say “Angelica! Eliza! And Peggy!”. Peggy is such a non-character that she doesn’t show up in the second act. She […]
2:350 – Wait Just A Little While Longer #faithbites #faithjourney wait Today, we got a great offer to redo our siding. Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough cash stocked up to do it. We looked at a loan but weren’t approved. Then we said, we just need to wait a little longer. We have been doing great with Dave Ramsey and […]
2:283 – Praise: What’s In A Word? #faithbites #faithjourney Praise What does “Praise” mean? According to vocabulary.com, the verb form means, express warm approval or admiration of. The noun form means, the expression of approval or admiration for someone or something. We all like to get at-a-persons (gender neutral form of at-a-boy). A simple nice job, great work, or thanks […]
2:254 – I’m Not Ok and That’s Ok #faithbites #faithjourney #redletterchallenge Ok Before we get started, let’s take a moment to remember September 11, 2001. The lives lost that day, the lives that continue to be lost from first responders, the lives in the wars fought since. Let us never forget the day that America, and the world, changed forever. […]
2:209 – The Storms May Slow You Down But…. #faithbites #faithjourney storms #DisneyDreaming Today was a hot day at Magic Kingdom, until the sky unleashed a downpour. It went from bone dry to flooding in minutes. We ran across the park and got on our bus to the hotel. The driver said it may be slower because of the weather. […]
2:174 – Encounters With Christ #faithbites #faithjourney encounters I know this is a shocker, but I like to question and learn as much as I can about as much as I can. From faith to food to life to science to everything, I want to learn. Some may say my learning about faith is questioning it and going against teachings. […]
2:116 – Together We Can Defeat Evil #faithbites #faithjourney Defeat For family movie night, we watched the Kid Who Would Be King. It is a modernized version of The Sword In The Stone about who would follow King Arthur. Without going into details, the movie stressed how King Arthur brought together warring clans to his roundtable and they were able […]
2:39 – We Can Overcome Trauma #faithbites #faithjourney trauma A smell, a sound, a phrase, or even a subject can bring long forgotten or seldom talked about traumatic events to the surface. Things that happened decades ago are as real as it was then. People may say get over it. You may have thought you were over it, but it’s […]