Transformed Moms: SOFTLY AND TENDERLY...LOVING CHILDREN'S CHILDREN...

It is GOD who BLESSES and TRANSFORMS...

This is a blog for women (not just moms) who:

(1) Desire to be transformed by JESUS' LOVE, HOLINESS, AND GRACE;

(2) Believe that GOD'S WORD is the true Spirit food for HIS HOLY SPIRIT who lives within us;

(3) Submit to GOD and walk this journey of life with HIM transforming us more and more into HIS likeness.

It's a blog about the POWER OF TRANSFORMED LIVES. Let's begin with yours and mine and pass it on... 1 + 1 + 1...

Since GOD's HOLY SPIRIT lives inside a christian, let's choose to be nurtured and transformed by feasting daily on HOLY SPIRIT food - GOD's WORD - The Holy Bible..

My regular posts stopped in 2013, with a major move and the chronic illness and eventual death of our oldest daughter. Yes, we grieve daily, yet I am determined to continue to let the LIGHT of my LORD and SAVIOR shine through me. I have tried to start posting again, over the last few years, but have not been consistent. So, I think the biggest blessing for you and me both will be to intersperse some new posts while revisiting some of the former posts. Let's begin with "Oh, the JOY!" as we head into living through Fall 2019; meeting back here 1-2 days a week.

If you need daily encouragement, you will find plenty by clicky on past posts. When reading earlier posts, you will see that I often posted daily, following this format: ...Sunday in the SON, Meditation Monday, GratiTuesday, Women in the WORD Wednesday, Transforming Thursday, Family Fellowship Friday, Ketchup & Mustard Saturday.

There's a whole lot here! Take your time to browse.

Please come back and visit each week. Welcome!

Because of JESUS, we can be family,

Patti

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

SOFTLY AND TENDERLY...LOVING CHILDREN'S CHILDREN...

Thankful! So thankful! I shared on Sunday that Steve's favorite song is Softly and Tenderly! I am married to a gentle and humble man who never stops learning of new ways to please and serve His heavenly Father. His office holds a ton of books that have been moved to a new place in the last week. During the move, someone commented that "next time maybe we should hire an illiterate preacher!"

Crystal loves her daddy dearly! She came home from college for the weekend. She sat on her daddy's lap, asked for wise counsel, bantered with him, and they went on a date together. Happy Father's Day! And, she did what she does every year on Father's day... she had a picture taken of herself to show her daddy how much she loves him! I am so thankful for Crystal and the relationship she has with her daddy!

I'm so thankful for our other daughter, Jess, who lives with us and gets to hang out with her daddy when she's not in pain. Although Jess was having a full blown migraine on Sunday, last night she and her daddy got to hang out and watch a movie together.

Although our two sons did not get to be with us for Father's Day, they got to spend the weekend together with their wives, Krista and Jacqueline, and little ones. What a precious thought for us to know that they were "hanging out together" with my sister Pam and her husband, Dalen.

Here is new daddy Caleb holding Perry just a little while after Perry was born on 6-3-10.

Here is Chloe with daddy Jordan, checking out the animals at the zoo. She got to hang out with her new cousin, Perry and called both Uncle Caleb and Uncle Dalen, "Bubba".

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I'm praying that God blesses my plans to see both grandbabies and their parents in about a week! GIGATTAATTGIG...

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Proverbs 17:6
Children's children are a crown to the aged,

and parents are the pride of their children.

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A Little History of this Blog:

A group of moms in Pitman, New Jersey began meeting every Tuesday morning in June 2008 to learn how to be Master-Full Moms. Although that class only lasted that summer, we have continued to have other classes for moms offered at the Pitman church of Christ. This blog will remain like an ongoing class. So, come back each day and join us as we discuss being God's women as we encourage transformation in each other.
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3 POINTERS TO NAVIGATE THIS BLOG:

1. Just below, you'll find a series of questions and answers about who Transformed Moms are.

2. Options for getting started...after those questions and answers... YOU COULD click on the June 2008 Archive, scroll down to the first post called MASTER-FULL MOMS and start from the beginning with our 14 day devotional challenge, or.... YOU COULD start with our summary of our original summer class and blog on the 8-31-08 post: SUMMER SUMMARY - SPIRITUAL, or... YOU COULD browse through the archive and click what looks interesting to you...and/or...
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3. You're invited to read recent posts and come back daily to join us as we are led by the Holy Spirit down the road to healing and / or transformation.

Thanks for joining us, Patti

2. WHAT DOES A MOM DO WHO HAS THE SPIRIT OF GOD LIVING IN HER?

… those who live in accordance with the SPIRIT have their minds set on what the SPIRIT desires …life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to GOD. It does not submit to GOD’S law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please GOD. You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the SPIRIT, if the SPIRIT OF GOD lives in you…Therefore, sisters, we have an obligation… by the SPIRIT you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live… Romans 8:5-13

6. MOM, DAUGHTER OF GOD, HOW DO YOU GET THE POWER TO LIVE AND NOT LOSE HEART?

For GOD, WHO said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made HIS light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of GOD in the face of CHRIST.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from GOD and not from us.

We are:

· hard pressed on every side, but not crushed

· perplexed, but not in despair

· persecuted, but not abandoned

· struck down, but not destroyed.

2 Corinthians 4:5-12