Mama Hen
Have you ever noticed how immature adults are? They kick and whine and scream about the stupidest things and it all results back to a huge amount of immaturity.
You bicker and fight about the little things and cut down and use “the same tounge that you use to praise God to curse man” beacuse you are less or jealous or whatever reason thinking you are better than someone else.
I have found myself becoming somewhat of a Mama Hen lately. It comes from the pettiness and insecurity of local minsiters and others that seem to attack my husband because he is doing the very thing God called Him to do.
So pretty much I’m saying that I’m tired of the harsh words and judgements thrown our way just because we are being obedient to God and because of Him run more kids or have bigger facilities or whatever.
So this is from Mama Hen: Get over yourself and stop bashing on what essencially is your brother in Christ and stop being immature and just do what God tells you to do instead of competing. Pretty much just grow up!
Blessed
yesterday josh and i went home for my lil sisters graduation dinner. i havne’t seen most of my family or church family since the wedding and it was like a huge reunion.
we were driving home and i couldn’t stop thinking about how grateful i am to have so m any people in my life that i know pray for me daily, and keep up with josh and i.
they all knew we were in gun barrel city, and several told us that they had prayed for us during the drama with leaving anna, and i know that they fully support us. i think a lot of times we take for granted payer, thinking that we can pray for someone but that words are void and that it really won’t result in anything.
the entire testimony we carry of the past year and truly my entire life is a direct result of godly parents and 2nd parents (my church family) of the prayers that are consistenlty spoken. i wouldn’t trade the huggs and the smiles for anything in the world. thats what family, or christianity, is all about. have we lost that sense of family? that sense of being able to turn to so many people around you and say “wow they are praying for me.” Has the church lost it?
To my lil’ sister rachel: you get on my nerves to this very day, but i love you more and more!! you are such a beautiful young woman and I know that God has formed and fashioned you into a unique and bold witness for Him. Stay the course. Don’t settle, and know your big sister will always come and kick your butt if you don’t. I love you, Congratulations, and I love you MOSTESTER!!
Where is the example?
I have been reading through Titus in the morning and today I have been in Chapter 2. It hit me so hard this morning with how much this is talked about and never done. I absolutley love my job as a girls minister. Loving and caring for girls as they go through breakups, deaths, anything at all. I intitally thought how much there needs to be a minister in every church that is specifically for girls. Someone to address the issues, to talk about “girl things”, but I quickly changed my way of thinking after reading Titus 2.
Would we really need youth ministers or girls ministers of the church was set up in such a way where the older members were so in love with God that they couldn’t help but take a younger person along side them to disciple. You find adults that are too busy with jobs, and vacations, and possibly even ministry related things like visitation and Bible studies that we completly neglect the call to mentor, to teach, to be an example.
There is a huge call and responsibility that comes from these verses. Integrity, soundness of speech, these are all huge aspects of life that seem so hard to grasp at times, but we are commanded to be the example.
It makes me wonder what our churches would look like, what our teens would look like if we took up the responsibility of being an example. Of walking along side of them and loving them, and teaching them. Things just might be a little different.
