Category Archives: MUSINGS

God Knows

Posted on by
2


How about them apples? These are two that I found, faced-down, in a bowl of drying fruit, swiped by my 2-year-old Nate and then replaced because he knew he wasn’t supposed to have more fruit. This week, the child training challenge has been on. We talked with our 7 year old about standing up to bullies, even recognizing when they’re putting him down. We encouraged our fruitaholic to save us some apples; and we directed our 11 month old not to throw a tantrum and fists and get beastly with his baby talk when he can’t play with the phone or remote control. Frankly, Flynn and I don’t know what we’re doing. I’d like to tell Josh to give the bad boys a beat down, hide the fruit from Nate and block the baby in the corner, but none of this is godly behavior. We don’t know, but the omniscient one knows and I’m glad He does.

He knows that I feel helpless when Josh hurts from the words and I want to yell stop when Nate’s grabbing fruit and Justus is babbling beastly. God knows and sees all, and, like Hagar and how he has done for me before, he will show me what I need for my children—how to get it and how to give it. I am His child and He will take of me. He will take care of us. When I remember that God is omniscient, I live like I will know what to do even though I might not yet know what to do. This is the life I plan to lead, continually, along with embracing His daily grace and mercies. How do you live or plan to live in light of God’s omniscience? I look forward to your comments.

Copyright 2010 by Rhonda J. smith

Remember the Work of Grace

Posted on by
1

When I was in college a friend told me that one of her friends thought I got everything I wanted. She didn’t even know me, but had watched from afar my entrance and acceleration in my sorority, work on the school newspaper, internships at top daily newspapers and a gang of people to hang with. This woman had long-distance envy, and I, with my sinful gloat coat that all strong black women wear because we do things that people should admire, got a kick out of her envy, thinking, “Dang, it’s too bad she ain’t me.” Continue reading →

7 Habits for Success

Posted on by
Reply

In many ways, my life, what I do, is second nature to me. I don’t actively think about how I accomplish my goals while caring for my children and home and cultivating my marriage. But after three people—some with children, some without—within two weeks asked me how I was able to meet my writing deadlines while caring for three young children because they needed help achieving their goals, I then examined my life so I could share my habits for success. I:

First, have vision and understanding, but to see results I have (practice) the following habits:
Continue reading →

Let’s Do This!

Posted on by
Reply

Sometimes we don’t do what we know to do because we just don’t know how. Last year I presented a framework to help Christian women to go from calling ourselves strong black women (SBW) to some other name that reflected God. I didn’t have the name at the time, but I have since recognized that the acronym is still SBW, which stands for strong biblical women. I want to revisit that framework in this post because I recognize its structure is universal. You can use it to stop doing whatever wrong you’re doing and replace that with something righteous. Continue reading →