by Kathy Collard Miller | May 28, 2017 | anger, anger management, anxiety, belief, communication, God's heart, God's love, gratitude, knowing and understanding God, overwhelmed feelings, prayer, Trust, worry
The winner of the book drawing for Dealing with the Elephant in the Room by Mike Bechtle is Mona!!!! Congratulations! I’ll email you. Although there weren’t comments on the blog post, I received several entrants through email, so Mona, I know...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 22, 2017 | anger, anger management, assumptions, blame, communication, humility, intimacy, marriage, overwhelmed feelings
Sometimes Larry irritates me with his opinions. Don’t remind me that’s what attracted me to him over 50 years ago. Shortly after we married his opinionated self began bothering me. I thought his strong opinions would make me feel secure. But I only judged...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 15, 2017 | anger, anger management, beliefs, Never Ever Be the Same, obedience, Trust, voice of God
In my last post I wrote about a story about my anger but at the time I didn’t know the reason why I did what I did. If you haven’t read yet that, you can read it here. It wasn’t until over a decade later that I knew what it was all about. I learned...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 10, 2017 | anger, anger management, anxiety, assumptions, beliefs, contentment, demands, hope, Never Ever Be the Same, overwhelmed feelings, people pleasing, perfectionism, why do I do what I do
There’s a reason you do what you do. Let me tell you a story. I had signed up to take refreshments to our adult Sunday school class. The sign up sheet for that month had been passed the previous month and I’d signed up knowing I would be out of town...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 6, 2017 | anger, deception, obedience, overwhelmed feelings, passion, perseverance, pleasure, regrets, sexiness, shame, sin, temptation, temptations, values
I don’t want to write this but I think God wants me to because He’s been bugging me and He keeps bringing it to mind. I don’t want to write about what I wanted when Larry and I were dating. It’s embarrassing. It was an evening when Larry and I were watching...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 22, 2017 | anger, Bible reading, contempt, contentment, love, marriage, people pleasing, self talk, studying Bible, women of the Bible
Any of us can be tempted by discontentment. Just ask Leah, one of the many women in the Bible. She is a very needy woman who puts her sense of worth into her husband’s hands. From the very beginning, she is considered the inferior sister to her favored younger...
