by Kathy Collard Miller | Oct 5, 2015 | God's heart, God's love, love, unconditional love
Unrestricted Love “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” –Mark...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Oct 1, 2015 | forgiveness, freedom, hope, knowing and understanding God, perfection, perfectionism, salvation, self-protective sinful strategies, shame, sin, thanks, thanksgiving
At the end of this post, I’ll tell you how someone will receive a birthday gift in a drawing. It’s my spiritual birthday! (Tweet that!) As a child, I believed I needed to perform perfectly in order to earn God’s love and approval, along with the...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Sep 28, 2015 | faithfulness, lies, position in Christ, Trust, truth
I remember the summer many years ago that I felt constantly exhausted. When I realized I wasn’t feeling better even when I rested, I went to the doctor and was diagnosed with mononucleosis. The doctor couldn’t predict how long it would take to heal but...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Sep 24, 2015 | anxiety, assumptions, attitudes, beliefs, Bible reading, church, faith, glory to God
Let’s use our imagination while we read Mark 1:35-37. I think we’ll see how God is a surprising God and He’s still surprising you and me often. (Tweet that!)”In the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Sep 21, 2015 | anger, beliefs, people pleasing, worry
When we lived in Placentia, in Southern California, our home was less than a mile from a lake–as the duck fly. During a particular season of the year we have some of the ducks who reside there decide their old home isn’t a good enough place for...