The Proverbs 31 Woman. We’ve all heard about her. We all want to be just like her. And why not? She’s pretty perfect. She works hard, takes excellent care of her family, helps the poor, and gives wise advice. I want to be just like her. But there’s one attribute of hers that I struggle …
I don’t know about you, but for me as a mom a secure fortress that’s a refuge for my children sounds like a wonderful thing. And a fountain of life doesn’t sound too bad either. So how do I get those things? The fear of the Lord. I studied literary translation in college and I …
Proverbs 3:5-6 is probably one of the most memorized Bible verses (somewhere behind John 3:16) and that may make it seem over-quoted and cliche but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a hand-holding, life-giving verse of gold. Of all of the verses in the Bible these are words that I want my sons to …
“Jesus had compassion on them…” In studying the book of Matthew with Good Morning Girls we’ve read that phrase more than a few times. Repetition is an effective literary device. It causes us to stand up and take notice of something. It demands that we see certain words more than others. Clearly God wants us to …
For the past two week’s Good Morning Girls Bible reading I was reading in Exodus chapters 31-40 and there’s a whole lot of meat in these verses but one thing struck me was the contrast between the beginning of Exodus and the end of Exodus. Exodus begins with the gloom of the Israelite enslavement and ends …
When is the last time that something overwhelmed you? I’m going to guess that most of the experiences that you think of when you think of being overwhelmed were bad experiences. Stress. Bills. Chaos. Health problems. When was the last time that you were overwhelmed in a good way? That the goodness of something or …