I Am A Work of Art (with a messy room)

***WARNING! Some of this may be hard for you to read. I do explain a few specific things about dying and about my own Mom's passing.*** I've been thinking about my life a year ago. One year ago, I had only been attending church for one month. I went at first for my daughter. You see, she was saved on Christmas Eve. She asked Jesus to be her forever friend at the Christmas Eve service. My goal was to take her to church to help her blossom in her faith. Then my next goal was to get my son going to Sunday school to help prepare him for school. All of this was from my Mom dying earlier in the year from cancer. You see, God has perfect timing. He showed us His perfect timing a few days before my Mom passed and the day that she left us to go home with the Lord. The Thursday before she died, my daughter and I were on our way to visit her. KK grabbed my hand and looked up at me (we were about 1 block away from the nursing home.) and said, "Mom? Is everything going to be ...

Let.It.Go. A book by Karen Ehman . I am getting ready to start a new Online Bible Study through Melissa Taylor's OBS and Proverbs 31 Ministries ! Here's a sample from the back of the book cover: "The housework. The meals. The kids. Many women are wired to control. But trying to control everything can be exhausting, and it can also cause friction with your friends and family. This humorous, yet thought-provoking book guides you as you discover the freedom and reward of living life "out of control", in which you allow God to be seated in the rightful place in your life. Armed with relevant biblical and current examples (both to emulate and to avoid), doable ideas, new thought patterns, and practical tools to implement, Let. It. Go. will gently lead you out of the land of over control into a place of quiet trust." So nervous about this idea of just letting it go! And I just read beautiful words written on the inside cover from my previous OBS leade...