I decided to repost this blog from a few years ago since I've talked recently about rebuke/correction on here. As you can see, it's been quite the theme for a few years! Thankfully, God has not given up on me and I know He has done a work to soften my heart. I am a work in progress, and He is not finished with any of us! *** Last Friday, there were some words exchanged in our home that led me to lock myself in the bathroom and get on my knees. (Deep breath for those of you who thought being a Read More
Heart Month
Our family was living in Iceland as missionaries when my biggest fear collided with reality: something was wrong with our baby. The twenty-week ultrasound revealed that only half of her heart was developing. In the months following this, questions began to emerge in my heart. Was God just? Was God good? I had always believed He was, but for the first time I really questioned it. I prayed for a miraculous healing and tried to have faith that He would actually do it (in case that was the missing Read More
Prayers for Our New President
Today is going to be long. Our newsfeed will be full of hot emotions and opinions. There are many things that COULD be expressed...but what if we didn't? What if we--instead--directed our energy to prayer? I posted this the morning after the election, and think it's worth repeating: The Bible instructs us to pray for our leaders (I Tim 2:1-4), and never before have I felt such an urgency to do so. We need to pray for President Trump on many levels: *Pray for him to draw near to Read More
Receiving Reproof: Part 2
In my last post, we talked about everyone’s favorite topic: receiving reproof. I mean, who doesn’t love a hard conversation where someone sees something in our actions, words or character that needs to be corrected? Seriously…listening to someone’s reproof is one of the hardest things for me. Harder still is giving it. Unfortunately for us (and our weak flesh), we are commanded to give correction as well as receive it. “Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and Read More
Receiving Reproof (part 1)
I can remember clearly where I was standing the first time it happened. I was engaged, and we were standing outside my fiance’s dorm room on a cold spring day. He was talking in a very serious voice, one that I hadn’t yet heard. I had done something wrong, and he was correcting me. I started to argue and defend my position and he responded by quoting a proverb. Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. (Proverbs 12:1 ESV) Thankfully, he didn’t use that Read More
Introduction: Receiving Reproof
My ten-year-old to me: "You said this was NOT going to hurt us, but you lied." Last month, I took them to get their flu shots and I guess I was being a little too optimistic. "What I was trying to communicate was that what I was about to do to you guys was NOT HARMFUL. It was good. It's a good thing to get a flu shot and protect you against the flu during cold and flu season." "Well, it still hurt." Her arms were crossed and so was her face. "It hurt you in the moment, but it will Read More
Garman Year in Review: 2016
Well, what to say about 2016? The beginning of this year, it felt like our family had reached a new level of crazy. Maybe it was the ages of the kids and all their activities, or homeschooling a middle schooler and a preschooler, or finishing the book…or all of it combined. At one point in the year my nine year old informed me, “Mom, The tooth fairy hasn’t given me any money for the LAST THREE TEETH I’ve lost.” I also learned that when you forget to clip your children’s toenails for a few Read More
Heart Community: Shout out to Simmons Family!
Today I become curious if this whole blogging thing could ever generate income. Let's face it: All of my kids need braces, a college education, and a wedding fund (just in case they decide being a single mother who adopts children isn't working out for them...that's Darcy's plan for now at least). I clicked around on my blog dashboard onto the statistics page and found out that most of my traffic comes from the Simmons Family Blog. I don't know the Simmons family, but through the miracle of Read More
TRAPPED
Today I was sitting outside enjoying the sunshine and trying to work on a few things. My six year old came out with a wide grin and informed me that she was inside “making a party” for me. I let her know I’d be in soon to see it, but that didn’t seem to satisfy her. Every two minutes she came out to inform me that the party was ready and that I needed to come in and see it. NOW. I eventually stopped the email I was trying to write and came inside to discover a trail of a 1,000 puzzle pieces. Read More
Now what, America?
Now, what? That was the first question on my mind when I woke up this morning and saw the headlines.Fear mixed with shock. I have never once said anything political on here, but this morning as I laid in bed listening to the world wake up, I found words I have to share. Now what do we do? Now we pray. No matter what side of the camp you are on, now we pray. There is nothing else to do. Nothing else to say. Nothing else to debate. The Bible instructs us to pray for our leaders (I Tim 2:1-4), and Read More
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