I have been reading through Ezekiel. Not an easy book, not for me anyway. But I am enjoying it. It is my heart's desire to know and understand God's Word more fully. It is definitely a journey in digging deeper daily! I came upon the chapter of the valley of dry bones. Chapter 37 . What an amazing chapter. Can you imagine standing there, like Ezekiel, and watching those dry bones coming together, then being fleshed out, and ultimately, standing as a great army? So the gist of the chapter is as follows: God brings Ezekiel in the spirit to the middle of a valley, full of bones God leads him around them and he sees there are many, and they are dry God asks Ezekiel, "Can these bones live?" Ezekiel responds, "O Lord God, You know", leaving the outcome to God God tells Ezekiel to prophecy over the bones Ezekiel prophecies in obedience and the bones start coming together Ezekiel 37 vs 7 - 8 : So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, ther
Years ago, when I started blogging, I didn't have social media. It was only me, blogging, and interacting with other Christian women bloggers. I loved it. It felt so good to encourage and be encouraged. Then slowly but surely I added social media to my blog. To share it more, to help it grow. But over time that same social media became a burden. It became noise! It became about me, and how many followers I had, etc. I eventually got frustrated and instead of identifying where things had maybe gone wrong, or maybe what I could do to return to the heart of my blog, I deleted it! And... I regretted it. Then I started a new blog. It frustrated me. I'd set it up, link all the social media, reach out to my old blogger friends who kindly supported me... and then... I'd delete it all again. I did that a few times (eyeroll). My reasons for blogging changed. I thought I should blog to share what I was learning. But I didn't have the confidence to share as a bible