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Month: January 2019

How We Tell Our Story

January 19, 2019January 18, 2019 ~ pursuedby ~ Leave a comment

Our brokenness will draw attention, but our healing is designed to be a witness bearer for Jesus.

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{Blog Post!} when Suffering Binds Instead of Tears- How we Tell our Story Pt. 2— “Still, why are we together? Why did those years bind us instead of build seeds of resentment and mistrust? Besides saying, “It was God,” how can we tell our story in a way that points to Jesus and shares how Jesus did what he did through and in us? . Because Josh’s choice at the time to love me in sickness and in health, for better or worse, MATTERED . My husband’s choice to dive deep into what love was for me, what Gods love for him was, and to trust his wife to God while resisting bitterness without knowing the outcome, MATTERED . Josh's choice to truly love me when it was not being returned, MATTERED . Our choices of obedience do make a difference.” Read more bragging, but mostly utter gratefulness of my husbands sacrificial love, at the link in my bio . . . 📸 @legacyunion @thematthewsmith #marriage #sacrificiallove #beating50percent #tellyourstory #inthewrightfam #godspromises #hopewriters #hope #godrescues #jesussaves #redemption #husbandandwife #husbandgoals

{18months} it’s because of how challenging the foster care system is, how imperfect it is, that I want to keep stepping into it. There are good , wise, kind people working within a system trying to figure out how to do good in situations where lies + hurt + evil reign. It’s hard to know what’s right + best when children are involved because you have to think short term + long term for someone that doesn’t know how to do that. The children in the system need adults who will choose love, choose commitment, and choose worth for them, both temporarily and permanently . Our buddy boy, David, turns 18 months tomorrow. He’s running + kicking a soccer ball left footed like a pro! He stopped using bottles + his pacifier a month ago!!!, graduated out of PT, + soon to be out of OT, although looking like Speech Therapy will be starting up. He LOVES music, like obsessively, with his favorites being @bobmarley , @lecrae + @urbanrescue ...oh and U can’t Touch This @mchammer 😂 he’s a sweet mammas boy, loves to watch cars go by and be outside. What a love he is. David, we’ve never regretted or questioned saying yes to you. You are our son forever and we will always, always love you, support you and walk with you in whatever challenges you face. ❤️ . #fostercare #fostercareadoption #adoption #music #worth #sayyes #inthewrightfam #belovedbygod823 #toddlersofinstagram #explorewithkids #getoutside #chooselove #latino #latinoboys

“God doesn’t create a human as anything but a man or a woman. I was not made a human mainly, with a side of woman...I was made a woman as the expression of my humanity. I do not, cannot, exist except as a woman... If you are tempted to believe that being a woman is just one aspect of yourself, just one facet of who you are, and that a part of you is more than that, something above it or underneath it, something better than it, you are thinking to meanly of the word. You need a bigger category for Gods creation called “woman.” . What if we have a false understanding of all that a woman actually is? What if we are equating being a woman with our perception of femininity or with particular roles such as wife and mother? We may have traded the fullness of Gods creation of woman for our own small stereotype of her . Being made a woman is not a morally neutral thing; it goes down in the pro column...When we opt to see our womanhood as merely an aspect of ourselves, we make it small and inglorious...When we make the distinctive parts of womanhood the totality of it, we send a confusing message...that being a woman is confined to those parts rather than showing them the breadth and depth of being wholly woman—even in the areas that overlap with men . With all the confusion in the world on the subject, the church has a message of hope, clarity, and love: GOD MADE YOU A WOMAN, and it is very good. IT IS NOT CONFINED TO YOUR POSITION OR CAREER OR TO GIVING BIRTH” . Are you hooked? Diving into my friend @abigail__dodds new book, (A)Typical Woman, this week in prepping to share on the topic of Identity. Im so thankful for her careful study of the word, her heart for “only Jesus” and her courage to share the words God has given her.

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