HEARTING: The new cookbooks and baking books i got for Christmas this year. I made chocolate cupcakes with salted caramel frosting out of Homemade Decadence by Joy the baker and they were so good! READING: Catching up on some of my favorite blogs: Oh Simple Thoughts , Wetherills say I Do , and Dearest Love . Also reading the She Reads Truth Esther study. PINNING: I pinned these cranberry white chocolate oatmeal cookies and i can't wait to make them this weekend! So there may be a recipe on the blog next week! EATING: I made tomatoe basil soup for my friends and I the other night. It was so good and they loved it as well, which was a plus. I just finished it yesterday. ANTICIPATING: Going home for spring break in March, it will be nice to be home for a week. And maybe Valentines day cause it will be an excuse to eat chocolate. LiINKING UP WITH: Jenna and Anne for their currently linkup
Encouraging Women to Find Rest in God
This was really timely. Last night, my friends and I were just talking about contentment in seasons that aren't what you expect. I wish that we would have thought of this verse. It can be hard to accept the things that God is doing that don't look like what we expect. But He's capable of so much more than we can ask or imagine if we'll surrender to Him. Thanks for the encouragement.
ReplyDeleteThis is so good! I agree, sometimes I find it that my "need it now" mentality keeps me from being content in the Lord. You hit the nail on the head with this and I needed it today!
ReplyDeleteExactly!!!! I mean, waiting for the right thing is soooo much better than having the wrong thing. Why can't we get that through our heads!?!?!
ReplyDeleteThis post is so beautifully real. Being content is hard for everyone in different stages of life, I think. It takes patience (and the willingness to lean on God) to really be content.
ReplyDeleteThat is so true Stacia! sometimes we just have to let God to the leading and get out of the drivers seat.
ReplyDeletethanks Morgan!
ReplyDeleteYou are so right! We live in a world where everything is just handed to us and that is when we need to be reminded that God provides for our needs and not the world.
I love your statement- "It can be hard to accept the things that God is doing that don't look like we expect." I have definetly been at that place, where i just want things to go my way but God has a totally different plan.
ReplyDeleteThat's the truth! :)
ReplyDeleteI love what you said there, "Waiting for the right thing is so much better than having the wrong thing" Sometimes we settle for the wrong thing and end up getting hurt in the process, which is hard but I also think that we need to remember that he always meets us where we are at no matter the process it takes to get there.
ReplyDeleteMorgan,
ReplyDeletethat is so true! We just have to wait until God tells us what to do next.
Contentment is something I struffle with at times as well. It is a daily giving up of ourselves and our wants and letting God do his work in us.
ReplyDeleteSo true that is so important! :)
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