The Urban Christian Woman Blog
Restoring the Urban Woman with God’s truth for everyday life.
New Year, Same God
It's a new year and resolve is high. Motivation is running rampant in the gym and across the nation. Some people are prancing into the new year thanking God for the lessons learned and victories won; new jobs, new baby, weight loss. Others, however, are reluctant to cross the threshold into 2020 without their dearly departed loved ones.
Not My Will…
Have you ever prayed that prayer? I’m not talking about muttering these words maybe in a church service or during your morning prayer time. But really, intensely, and truthfully prayed this prayer?
Broke, Busted, Yet Trusting
In the midst of our trials it can be hard to see God. For me, it was hard to know that God saw me. I was doing all that I knew to do, but there have been moments (long moments) when I wondered if God saw me.
Introductions to the KING: Being Faithful to Share the GOSPEL
A little known fact about me is that I was a full-time missionary. Sharing the gospel was literally my job for two years after college.
Leaning Into God’s Story in a Season of Transition
I never thought the verse “they left their father Zebedee” would mean anything to me.
Visiting Hours are Over
This summer my family suffered a very traumatic house fire. My children were in the hospital for two weeks receiving intensive care for burns and smoke inhalation. I sat in this hospital everyday for two weeks.
When I Tell God, “No!”
Sometimes we as women, have a hard time saying “no”. When a friend asks if you want to go out for dessert when you have a pile of laundry waiting to be tamed, you go anyway. When your boss asks you to take on a new project, knowing you are drowning in work, you say “sure, no problem.”
Garden Season: Being Content and Finding Joy in My Garden
I’m learning to find contentment and joy despite my circumstances. I’m still learning. It’s been a journey and has not happened overnight.
A Benjamin Button Revolution: Becoming More Childlike in Christ
In the movie Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt, Benjamin is born as a very old man. Over the years, while everyone else is growing older, he grows younger until he becomes and infant again. I too must revert back to a time when I simply relished in being the child and in Him being the Father. For so long, I believed that God was insisting on my “#adulting” my faith.
Rejection Ain’t Really Rejection
In spite of the heart-break, God was and continues to be soooo good and I praise Him for that rejection. Why? Because rejection, I believe, is not necessarily always rejection. And I have learned so much through this process that I wouldn’t have been able to grasp if things had worked out between the two of us.
To the Married, Engaged, Dating, & Singles…
Recently, I’ve enjoyed watching romance movies less & less because they make me sad. Not sad because of what I “don’t have” but sad because of their portrayal of what love is. Our society has a way of turning the idea of love into something very selfish and self-focused.
The Trajectory of Brokeness
When my son breaks a toy he brings it to me expecting me to be able to restore it something he can use for his pleasure. He comes to me with hope based on the fact that I have been able in the past to restore his broken toys.