by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 15, 2017 | anxiety, belief, beliefs, depression, encouragement, endurance, faithfulness, fear, freedom, glory to God, God's heart, knowing and understanding God, overwhelmed, praise, strength, stress, trials
I love featuring the writing of others when their words really speak to me. And that is certainly always true of the writings of Jean Wilund, whose blog “Join the Journey” I highly recommend. I love thinking, meditating, and talking about God’s...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 5, 2017 | anger, book drawing, book review, book review contentment, contentment, freedom, God's heart, heart change, peace, stress
The book give-away for Jocelyn Green’s book Free to Lean: Making Peace with Your Lopsided Life is still going on so I thought I’d include here the snippet she included of mine in her book. Click on original post to learn more...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 1, 2017 | book drawing, book review, book review contentment, contentment, grace, quiet times, recommended reading, stress
I’m so pleased to feature a new book, Free to Lean: Making Peace with Your Lopsided Life, by Jocelyn Green and a Foreword by Susie Larson. And guess what? Jocelyn is making a copy of Free to Lean available for a Book Giveaway! I’ll give more details...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 22, 2017 | God's heart, God's love, grandparenting, love, mother, parenting, positive parenting, strength, stress, surrender, truth, unconditional love
An Open Letter to the young mom in the fast food shop with a two-year-old and a newborn:My heart went out to you as you tried to just get a fast sandwich and small drink to have a little break or enjoy a quick lunch in peace. But your two-year-old was teasing his...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 5, 2017 | glory to God, God's heart, God's love, guidance, procrastination, purposes, stress, surrender, voice of God, worry
I recently emailed back and forth with a ministry friend who was wondering if she was “whimping out” about following God or He was guiding through the circumstances.I wasn’t sure I understood what she meant by “whimping out” so I asked...
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, 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...