this is a page for

Browsing Tag: grace

House of Love

Yesterday started off the season of Advent when we get to expectantly await to celebrate the birth of Jesus and the second coming of Christ. I feel like Advent is the perfect time to discuss this topic of community. Sometimes I feel like people get so caught up in the manmade laws of the church that they forget Jesus’ words in the Bible. The Bible is the guide book for how our Father wants us to live our lives for Him. Lately I could feel God really putting this on my heart. Church communities can be a blessing but they also have some people sprinkled in that suck the love Jesus tells us to share right out of the air. I have experienced this more so growing up and I know many people who have experienced this same thing. If you are one of these people this one is for you. God has called us to be in community with others, that’s how we grow and learn in our faith. I know there have been things said to people, and they have walked away from church and not come back; it hurts me so much to see…

The Set Back

For those of you who have followed my story know that I have struggled with an eating disorder. If you haven’t heard my story I wrote a blog about my journey which is titled Shattered, so you can go back and read it. Towards the end of summer I started to feel really convicted about me being obsessed with my body. I would sit in the mirror and critique myself on how all the ways I look disgusting and awful. I am too fat, I have too much cellulite, my mom pooch is sticking out, etc. I would see someone on Instagram or Facebook that would instantly make me degrade myself in a bikini. I would make myself get up go to the gym to workout at 5:30 so that I made sure and made time to get my workout in before anything else. I was going backwards and not forwards with how I chose to see myself and my body. You see there is one problem with this, what I was doing with my body wasn’t honoring God, it was dishonoring Him. Instead of me investing in my time with Him I was investing…