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Meet Me At The Well

I have been working on this blog topic this week. On Saturday I was blessed to be able to attend a women’s event here in my town, and the woman who spoke, Kelly Bland did such a great job. In the different scriptures she talked about, John chapter 4 was one of them. I just smiled to myself because some of the things she spoke about I had been thinking through this week, and she spoke from another perspective and it was exactly what I needed. Have you ever read the story of the Samaritan woman? It is truly touching when you read it. Jesus sitting at the well alone, and enters the Samaritan woman, whom is usually an outcast and one that is unspoken to. Have you ever paid attention to what time the woman came to the well? She came to the well at noontime, it doesn’t seem like anything but when you think about it, it’s an odd time. The wells are usually located outside of town and most women would go draw water from the well in the morning and night time, but she is coming at noontime. Her coming…

Miscalculation

Think back to when you were younger and the expectations you had of what your life would be like when you were a grown up. Maybe you sit there and you wonder where you have gone wrong or you feel like you are not worth enough because you “aren’t successful enough.” What about the expectations you have of God and what He should be doing for you? Have you ever been so frustrated because maybe what you had expected of God didn’t turn out as planned and because it did not go that way it led you astray? What about the expectations you had of what your husband would be like or even what motherhood would turn out to be? Have you ever really thought about how our expectations can hinder our present. How somehow this magical list of things you thought life would be is robbing you of your present joy. It isn’t that your expectations were wrong, but if you keep expecting these expectations instead of living in your moment of present joy you are only robbing yourself. No, it isn’t wrong to still have expectations of what…