Welcome to another week of our Everyday Jesus link-up. Be sure to link-up below this post, comment on your neighbor’s blog and share with your friends… Because Jesus is everywhere, every day! And today– we are doing a giveaway! Keep reading…
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Sometimes, I see it coming. I am on my guard, ready. I can smell it in the air and I am face it with open arms.
Other times, it scares the ever-living everything out of me, like when my two-year-old wakes up at 0554, gets right up in my face and instructs me to “WAKE UP!”
It’s change. Something that all of us face at some point in our lives.
And Kristen Strong knows it. So she wrote a book to help us through it.
My review of Girl Meets Change: Truths to Carry you through Life’s transitions is an easy five stars.
Sure, I am little bit biased because Kristen IS a military wife, AND a midwestern girl. But her book is a tool I will undoubtedly add to my ministry arsenal for personal and friend-loan-out-of-my-library use.
Kristen does a great job using real life examples and stories of women who faced major life change in the realm of marriage, parenting, professional and even in everyday walks of faith. She also seamlessly weaves scriptural stories into her book to back up her wise words with The Word.
I appreciated the book as a whole, but a couple of parts really stuck out to me and encouraged my heart.
As a military wife myself– and a ministry– AND a mom to a toddler– sometimes even the simplest change can throw me for a loop. God has been working on this in me for many years by refining my heart and equipping me with spiritual knowledge.
One area I yearn for yet sometimes struggle is Bible reading. Kristen mentions that knowing His Word is a vital piece of our ability to change with a holy perspective.
But sister… I have a two-year-old. Sometimes a majority of my quiet time is spent threatening my child with a time out for dangling a sticky note over the teeny candle with me in my prayer closet or for writing on the wall with one of my inky pens.
Some days, I get so discouraged with my QT and bible reading. But Kristen shared an analogy I will not soon forget:
“I find it comforting that no matter the season we find ourselves in, our time of soaking up Scripture doesn’t have to resemble any particular model to be good for us. Soaking it up on any level is always best for us. A sit-down quiet time? Awesome. Reading Scripture on your Bible app while in line at Target? Fabulous. It will all seep inside and start to make a difference.” (pg 138)
Kristen goes on and shares an analogy about her son, James. When he started to eat solid food, like many babies, it seemed as if more got ON him than IN him. But obviously, it was enough to nourish his body–because hey, he wasn’t nickname “Hoss” for nothing. The same is true for our Scripture reading experience. She says that some days, it will feel like it just sloshed off the edge of our brain. But over time, more and more sticks. So we become spiritually strong and equipped.
Which is good news. Because sometimes, my change-esque brain feels pretty sloshy.
This book is a must have for anyone who has faced change, sees a change coming or things change might show back up in the future.
Which really is everybody.
So, I am giving a copy away. Enter below and leave a comment with you answer about how well you deal with change on a scale of 1 to 10… or not so much. I will randomly choose a winner when the link up closes next Wednesday night.
Be encouraged by Kristen’s words, dear reader:
“Change is a helper– believe it. Change is a gift– receive it. Change is a restorer. Live it.”
Changed by Christ,
“I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.” ~John 14:29
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