Annie B Garman

Motherhood, Mayhem, & The Meaning of Life

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Lesson Five

This study is dangerous. If you are doing the lessons consistently, you know what I mean.  This week we had to pick out an "ongoing problem area" of our lives to focus on.  I naively asked God to help me determine a problem area to choose, and the answer to that prayer was very painful and resulted in a weekend chalked full of being uncomfortably confronted with and aware of my viscous sin nature.  I didn't just read about the downward spiral on page 63, I lived it. I guess I should be Read More

We Have an Announcement to Make….

I WOULD call it the immaculate conception, but my husband thinks that's both naive and sacrilegious...so I won't. Back in January, I decided to go to Urgent Care to get some antibiotics.  I had been sick for weeks and assumed I had some kind of vicious bacteria growing inside of me.  I thought I would stop by Rite Aid on my way and get a pregnancy test so that when the doctors asked if I was by any chance pregnant, I could confidently present to them my answer and get on the strongest Read More

Lesson Four

Our ways are immeasurably different than God's ways.  I find that both comforting and disturbing. This week as we contrasted man's ways and God's ways in regards to solving problems, I found myself annoyed and slightly put-off.  I have spent a couple years of my life working towards a Masters degree in marriage and family counseling, so when this study compared and contrasted worldly counseling is from Biblical counseling, I felt upset...as though I needed to defend how valuable professional Read More

Thoughts from the Week

My insights from Lesson Three of Self-Confrontation Bible Study: God has not left us alone in this battle to change.  He empowers us through His Holy Spirit, His Word, and prayer.  It's so simple...but do we really take advantage of these resources or depend mostly on ourselves? PRAYER IS HARD.  Before EVEN TRYING to pray, ask the Holy Spirit to help you pray! The Bible is really useful.  I look to a lot of different things for help, when (in the category of right living), it is Read More

Specks and Logs

This is not fun. The Bible Study, Self-Confrontation, that we're going through at small group is a lot of HARD work right now. This past week as I meditated on our memory verse, Matt. 7:1,5, it was as though THE VERY THING I WAS TRYING TO AVOID--being critical--was the very thing I couldn't stop doing.  I guess that revelation prepared me to go to class humbled and utterly thirsty to understand this week's lesson....How in the world, then, do I change?  Matthew 7:1-5 was a great memory verse Read More

What Does it Mean to be a Christian?

Since I've had kids and the stress has increased in my life, I've been struck with how deep of a sinner I am and have been left grappling with the question of, "HOW DO I CHANGE?"  I thought this week's lesson in Self-Confrontation really addressed that well. ***WE CAN'T CHANGE BIBLICALLY UNLESS WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.   Sure, you may be able to pull off some behavior modification, but it's only through HIS strength that we can have the power to conquer sin in our Read More

I am a Heart Mom

I am a heart mom. I have felt, at a twenty-week ultrasound,  floorboards cracking and giving way under my jumping, celebrating feet as the words  Congratulations, it's a girl were chased away all too quickly with There is something wrong with your baby's heart. I know the torment of wondering, wrestling, and combating a viscous voice that whispers...This is all my fault... I know the pain of weeping in my husband's arms after a baby shower, unsure if my baby would ever wear her new, pink Read More

Heart Month!

February is American Heart Month.  I didn't put that together until recently, and I am even a heart mom. Next week we'll be going to Jump Rope For Heart at the Kid's Elementary School where the kids have already raised over $125 for the American Heart Association (Thank you, generous donors!) Today I got an email confirming that I would be at the Greater Washington Region Heart Ball at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner (as a volunteer...tickets are something like $500).  The Director of Read More

Meet Annie

 

“Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can’t see it. So quietly submit to be painted” -CS Lewis
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