Comfort from the Cottage

Comfort from the Cottage

I could give you a long detailed history of 20 years of working with women in ministry, however for our first meeting I will keep this short, you will find out more as we go along.  Much of the ministry I was a part of in my local church was awesome, some of it grueling, always rewarding and sometimes a trial by fire.  I hope to take those many hours, days and years of sharing and learning and teaching and reach perhaps an even larger audience.  Some of my favorite reading lately has been with a book where the author makes you feel like you are sitting in front of her having tea or coffee and you are in a deep conversation with her.  I hope that is what you will find here as well.  There is nothing more stimulating than women helping each other be strengthened by the Word of God and seeking his wisdom in all they do.  

Being very practical, I love that the Scriptures are a guidebook for life.  They sustain me and give me strength.  They remind me that I am loved beyond imagination.  Over and over I read of God's steadfast love.  It is a comfort that I cannot live without.  Why? Because I fail miserably at life on a daily sometimes hourly basis.  Because of my past I know without a doubt that when I have walked out of God's safely zone I have ruined my life and others around me in no time at all.  (A long story for another time).  I know of God's immeasurable grace, his timeless mercy, his deep forgiveness and amazing restoration of a life gone awry.  

Without a doubt I know you can know this too.  And I hope with all that is in my heart that if nothing else, you can be encouraged and find the peace, hope and rest that comes from a personal relationship with the Lord.

I'm a Southern gal that has transplanted to the Mid-West and I live in a small town in the middle of farming and wine country and I run a Bed and Breakfast.  My husband plays in a wedding band and between our two schedules and the upcoming wedding of my step daughter there is no lack of adventure and opportunities to step out in faith and watch God work.

Our little home in our B&B town is a small cottage - a gently used, well built house.  That hopefully is what we can say about most of us!  We can be gently used of God (though we often wear ourselves out unnecessarily) when we have a well built house based on the strength of his Word.  I trust and pray that you will be fortified, uplifted, prepared, and built up for love and ministry through the comforts of this cottage and the awesomeness of God's Word...

"But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more.  My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.  With the might deeds of the Lord God I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.  O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.  So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come."  ~Psalm 71:14-18