by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 5, 2011 | holiness, pleasure, temptation
(If you received my last post and couldn’t open the link, here’s the right one:Article about praying for Egypt.)New Post:The other day after enjoying one of God’s gifts of pleasure, I had this inward assurance that God was yelling to the angels,...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 24, 2011 | holiness, pleasure
It’s been interesting to continue thinking about pleasure. As a recovering perfectionist, I have trouble with not making things “all or nothing.” Enjoying pleasure seems dangerous because won’t that mean I’ll go to the extremes?I remember...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 21, 2011 | God's heart, holiness, pleasure
We housed some new friends this past weekend. After they left on Sunday, I went into the bathroom they used to gather their towels for washing. I was surprised to see that they had only used one set. One set? The other set was hung just the same as before. Why did...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 11, 2011 | holiness, perfectionism
As I thought more about growth being like a spiral (see yesterday’s post), I thought of how the earth orbits the sun. In that orbit, every year between August 9 and 13 when the Earth passes through the orbit of the Swift-Tuttle comet, we see the Perseid meteor...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 11, 2011 | holiness
It always surprises me when a weakness I’ve been working on for a long time–and I think it’s been buried–rises up again. Then I must remind myself that growth is not based on a time line but a spiral. If growth is based on a time line, then a...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 15, 2010 | holiness, lies
Sometimes God’s purifying work is harder when it’s a “little sin” rather than a “big” one. Sometimes it feels like we have the major things under control and God starts using his spiritual broom to sweep into the corners to push out...
