Weekly Recap + Driver's License
What's been going on around here...
It’s been quite a week!
Quickly, here is what you missed this week:
On Monday we released Episode 46 of Glory Revealed Podcast with Nick and Stephanie Holden. IT WAS SO GOOD. And I officially want to clone Nick. He is delightful and Stephanie is lovely as always. They share about their marriage starting off on the wrong foot but who they have been able to make it regardless. Listen 🔊HERE.
Also on Monday, our paid subscribers received a Bible Study video by Pastor Nick. If you are not a paid subscriber you can become one HERE.
Looking ahead 👉🏻 There will be no podcast released on Monday. Instead, we will be releasing the rest of Pastor Nick’s Bible Studies for paid subscribers only. Be sure to check them out, they are amazing and coincide with the podcast.
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Ok, guys…big week because….
My sweet girl got her drivers license!
She is driving on her own, and my job as mom taxi is now officially done. I’m feeling all the feels about it. I’m so grateful to have some more much needed time to dedicate to work and rebuilding our life, but I am going to miss those times in the car together. It’s just so weird that your kids need you so much for so long and then all of sudden, in just one test, they take a giant leap forward towards independence and you are just standing at the driveway waving {yes, I waved her off!}. For someone who has been through more change than I’d ever like over the last few years, this is another uncomfortable reminder that my kids will go off and leave me and it will be just me. With this thought in mind, I am prayerfully working on a few projects that will hopefully fill my extra hours over the next year or so. Again, this time is interesting and I am trusting the Lord to lead and guide me as my kids fly from my nest.
Love your enemies…
I am reading the Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. I’ve read it once in the first year of my marriage but unfortunately I don’t think I really processed it much. I highly recommend it. I have moved on to the one specifically for teenagers and I can tell this is going to be so useful.
One of the sections in the original book is loving your spouse when they are behaving like your enemy. It’s hard for me to go back in my mind and wish I had more information to help me in my own marriage, because I truly felt like I did the best I could, but…in this section the author brings up Luke’s version of Jesus talking about loving your enemies and I couldn’t help to think about those last years in my marriage where I very much felt like my spouse was my enemy. That door has closed, but there are many others I could relate this too…
“But to you who are willing to listen, I say, love your enemies! Do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who hurt you….Do to others as you would like them to do to you.
“If you love only those who love you, why should you get credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them! And if you do good only to those who do good to you, why should you get credit? Even sinners do that much! And if you lend money only to those who can repay you, why should you get credit? Even sinners will lend to other sinners for a full return… You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate.” Luke 6:27-36
I am, as you know, still rebuilding some relationships with people and loved ones who were severely damaged during my business and marriage downfall. As I read this section, I was convicted that I am not doing very good in this category. I am still critical, quick to judge and stuck in my own thoughts. So, this has been something I have prayerfully been thinking about.
Is there someone who you could love a little bit better?
I hope this makes you think too. We can do this together!