by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 18, 2019 | demands, glory to God, heart change, knowing and understanding God, Never Ever Be the Same, Pure-Hearted
Godly dependability is obeying only God’s leading–not our own needs. My cell phone rang; I greeted my neighbor and dear friend, Karen. “Kathy, can you take Stephen and I to the airport tomorrow afternoon?” “Sure. Would love to.” “Oh, and we’re arriving...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 12, 2018 | abuse, anger, anger management, anxiety, child abuse, fear of man, hopelessness, Never Ever Be the Same, No More Anger, overwhelmed, overwhelmed feelings, Pure-Hearted
Drum Roll…The winner of Cindi McMenamin’s book 12 Ways to Experience More with Your Husband…is… Nate! Congratulations, Nate. I’ll pass your information along to Cindi and she will be pleased to correspond with you. Now I want to share...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 6, 2018 | abuse, adultery, anger, anger management, Bible reading, deception, fear of man, god, God's heart, God's love, intimacy, marriage, Never Ever Be the Same, people pleasing, Pure-Hearted, women of the Bible
I’m just like the Samaritan Woman with honed defensive strategies. My primary defensive emotional and verbal response is anger and blaming another. Or pointing out that person’s inadequacies. In all the times I’d studied the Samaritan Woman,...
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, soul care, 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 | Apr 4, 2017 | belief, beliefs, caregiving, fruit of the Spirit, mentoring, Never Ever Be the Same, sanctification, self talk, self-protective sinful strategies, soul care, spiritual gifts, stress, tough love, trust, truth, worry
Are you starting a new mentoring or lay counseling kind of connection? Do you want to help another or yourself evaluate your spiritual health? (Tweet that!) I use these 13 questions to start. After I hear the woman’s answers (and of course write them down), over...
