Faithful Providence

It has been heavily on my mind the past month about how God must feel about our overall imperfections. In the Bible, we learn that Jesus asks His followers, God's other children, to "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." (Matthew 5:48) As much as we are told that God wants us to work toward perfection, we must also recognize that the perfection we seek for is not going to happen in our mortal lifetime. Sometimes we may wonder, "why even try then?". 1. God cares about our overall experience in life  more than the mistakes we make along the way. We need to screw up in order to learn. I was recently faced with a dilemma, which I will share to illustrate this point .  I have a family member close to me who has recently made some deliberate, "sinful", lifestyle choices. I racked my brain trying to think of some way to get through to them to make them realize their destructive choices. I thought about contacting ...

In December 2017, my husband David had a strong feeling in his heart that he would lose his job within a year. After talking about it, we decided that I should really get my career as a holistic wellness coach off the ground, and within a few months, I went through a couple certification programs and then became a practitioner at a healing center in Omaha.   Then in about December, my husband came home from a church errand and told me that he received further wisdom from God about the previous impression. He said that he wasn't going to be laid off, like he thought, but that God wanted us to move to Utah in May/June, which was that 1 year timeframe. When he said that, I felt something undeniable. It was like a spiritual bolt of lightning, for lack of a better term, run through by body. That spiritual bolt of lightning was like my "burning bush", per se (Moses reference). You see, as much as I enjoyed the occasional visit to Utah growing up, and the reunions and nea...