Mikki's Posts

So after much struggle and ups and down I am feeling good.  Coping well with life and work and the dreary season upon us. It has been quite the adventure the last month.  I was a zombie for a few weeks.  I saw it primarily at work.  I was there, I did my job but my heart was not in it.  I did the bare minimum.  And I was miserable most of the time. I think I even stressed out myself too the point I got sick.  My boss had to send my home early one day because I just could not function between the sinus pressure and headache, my eyes hurt and everything was incredibly loud. There were some occasional good days and moments but secretly I cried a lot.  For no apparent reason mostly. I didn't sink too far into depression.  I made myself go to my small group, Wed night Bible study, and BSF.  Yes I'm in all three again.  I know it's a lot of bible study but I really need accountability and frankly the fellowship.  I managed...

Just a quick note to appease those who have called for more blogging.  I do apologize--I tend to write less when I'm not depressed.  Trying to change that.  It's not easy.  You know what "they" say, 'You can lead a horse to water but you can't teach an old dog to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.'  Or something like that.... I'm developing a rep I rather enjoy.  For my Wed night Bible study I've been really digging into the Word to look for verses that support my answers and my thoughts.  I was initially timid about sharing all I'd looked up.  And I only share about half of what I look up because I'm thorough. But then a couple ladies shared how they had looked up some of the scriptures afterwards.  Someone really took to heart one of the questions and was encouraged by the scripture I'd found and shared. I think it's the influence of BSF.  Now, with BSF, the digging is confined to the passage currently being studied.  Th...

Sooooooooo I didn’t read very much of Celebration of Disciple. Just two chapters. But they were good chapters.  Meditation was the subject of chapter 2. One of the first things that popped out at me was a quote from Carl Jung that said Hurry is not of the Devil; it is the Devil. There’s an entire blog dedicated to that topic later so we’ll move on for now. Apparently God desires my fellowship. And yours. Don’t ask me why because I still don’t quite understand why. One of the ways to be in fellowship with God is meditation. This is not to be confused with most Eastern religions view of meditation. Eastern meditation is focused with detaching oneself from the world and losing your identity. Meditation in the form Foster is addressing for Christians is about "ruminating on God’s Word", listening to God and filling your mind with God.  While Eastern meditation simply empties the mind, Christian meditation doesn’t just empty the mind of evil and selfishness and self, it go...

This is an amazing book!  Written by Shannon Ethridge, the full title is Every Woman's Battle: Discovering God's Plan for Sexual and Emotional Fullfillment .  It is targeted at married women but also for single women who intend to get married someday and also for single women who have married friends that may need the occasional piece of "wise counsel", as Stephen Arterburn says in his forward.  (Stephen is the author of the best sellng Every Man's Battle  book series among other works) I just finished it and plan on reading again this month dong the workbook this time.  I have to say if you are a woman who follows Christ this is a must read. The battle for sexual purity, not just physical but emotional, mental and spiritual is a very under-talked subject for women.  That very much needs to change if we are going to be fully mature women of God. There were so many "wow" moments for me, when I just had to sit a moment and think about it. ...