My business name Found in You came from a song lyric “I’ve never been more found, then when I’m lost in you.” To know God more intimately means spending time with Him, seeking His thoughts and His ways above mine. It has required me to release and surrender my plans, my ideas. I’ve had to redefine so much of what I believed about God’s character and what He says about me. In getting to know Him and understand His goodness it has given me the courage to say and,yet and allow Him to renew my mind and continue to transform my life. When I decided to believe that He created me the way He did because He loves me as I am, I have begun to be excited to be the work of His hands, even when it is painful and hard. Being known by God is such a privilege.
What do we do when faced with the consequences of our boundaries? What happens when it’s painful to be misunderstood or not given the benefit of the doubt. When people you love continue to choose to believe the worst or at the very least don’t seem to care to find out the truth. How do…
A few years ago when I took the Minister of Children position, I had my first taste of discrimination. It pales in comparison to what many experience, not here to pretend to compare, but to say it opened my eyes. A friendship changed after taking that position as a woman on a ministry team and…
A few weeks ago in a blog post I mentioned that during a church service one night I came to a turning point. A decision, a place I needed to get to on my own where I felt God saying to me “How many times Bethany? How often will we go around about this.” At…
During an extremely difficult season of church ministry I received a mental picture from the Lord. It was so direct. So specific. So me, that I couldn’t have forgot it even if I wanted to. And let’s be clear I don’t EVER want to. This revelation came to me at such a confusing, foggy, what-is-even-happening-right-now…
Pruning. If you read in John 15 you’ll see. You must be bearing fruit in order to be pruned. Otherwise you are like a branch cut off. Pruning towards growth. Pruning for extension. Pruning not because you did something wrong but because you are doing something right. Been feeling like the an…
Three times a day these bottles show up in this same spot. I usually love to have clutter free counters and stuff in its place. Outward order brings inward calm. You get the idea. This bottle battle … I’m surrendering. Turns out sometimes outward order is just a shift in our perspective and some grace…
Last fall, right before my open house I shared a post with you guys about how each year I do something more to prepare for the holiday season. Each year I try to be better prepared, try to make it easier on Scotty, on my family, on me, on my emotions, on my body. You…
Did I think because I was doing what He called me to do I might need a higher SPF? Like it’s sunnier where I am? Did I expect that He’d pull out the umbrella for me because I am obedient to His call?
There have been days in the past when I wished I had a t-shirt that said “Today is not the day. And I am not the one.” And then I would wish that I had the guts to wear it… If I’m really honest, I’ve had strings of days like that, maybe because of a…