My husband and I have been through a lot in the short amount of time we’ve been married and I got to tell ya, sometimes life just get tough! I’m not talking about some major crisis, but just every day living. It’s not easy being a biblical woman these days… every thing we do for the glory of God goes against the grain of this world, and we feel it. The more I walk with Jesus, the greater the reality that I am truly a stranger here. I keep thinking that it is going to get easier, but then I realize once again that I am not even a citizen of this place called earth! My citizenship is Elsewhere. Because I belong somewhere else, a war rages within me between the laws of this world and the laws of the one to come. Inwardly I long for the Day when I can live in the freedom I am called to with no conflict. I long for the day when it is “normal” (can you imagine?!) to show love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness and temperance, when it is normal to worship my Creator in His Majesty! I am not normal here because I truly love God, I am not normal because I truly love being a helpmeet to my husband, not normal because I treasure my children and don’t want to stop having them, not normal because I am happy to stay at home… I am not normal because I choose love when hate should increase, not normal because I choose joy over depression, patience over discontent, gentleness over violence, faith over doubt, meekness over rebellion, and temperance over judgment… there, I said it!
I AM NOT NORMAL & I am OKAY with it!

Are you okay with not being normal? Sometimes life here wears us down and we begin to lose perspective… we get tired doing all the things that are difficult in this world’s system. But I’d like to tell you that it is NOT for nothing, praise the Lord! When we choose His Way, we will certainly not lose our reward! So chin up sisters, you can do it! Keep on keeping on!

Galatians 6:9 - “Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”