Content with my Weaknesses
“9 But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12: 9-10 I often pray for the Lord to make more out of my language lessons than progress in my understanding of Albanian language. So, why would I be surprised when he answers that prayer with an opportunity to speak truth?… Read more >>
Climbing this Mountain with My Hands Wide Open
The other day, I heard Caroline, my roommate (and teammate and friend and fellow language learner), playing a song that immediately took me back to Word Retreat, which is the retreat my home church in Alabama has every January for the youth group. I have so many memories of sweet fellowship during those retreats as a teenager and also so many moments where the Lord met me and filled me with peace. The song is called “Nothing I Hold Onto.” Here are some of the lines: “I lean not on my own understanding My life is in the hands of the Maker of heaven” “I will climb this mountain With… Read more >>
For to You I Entrust My Life
"I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.” - Psalm 143:8 This verse is on a card hanging on our fridge, directly across from where I sit for breakfast in the morning. For the first week of looking at it, what I thought most often when looking at this verse was honestly: “Wow, it will take forever for me to learn everything I need to know to translate that.” Look at it. You have the present perfect tense, you have a command with the word “should,” indirect and direct objects, a few vocabulary words I do not know in Albanian yet. And… Read more >>