Beloved Readers,
Sorry it has been so long since I last blogged. First of all, my husband surprised me at the end of January by suggesting we get a way for an impromptu vacation. We flew down to Los Angeles and got on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera. It was wonderful!!
The day after we got home, I sold my house. Not the one I have been living in for the past two years and three months with my new husband, but the one in which I lived for seven years as a single mom with my daughter and son. I had been holding onto it, renting it out and keeping up with the payments. But I finally felt that letting it go was an important step in letting go of former things. The Lord says, "Forget the former things, see I am doing a new thing. Do you not perceive it?"
Well, yes, I perceive it. So I sold my house. It was kind of hard, I mean the heights of my growing children were marked on the door-frame between the kitchen and living room. One can see how they overtook me in height, the dates recorded there beside each mark. It was a bit sad to think of another family living there, but the home went for well above list price, so I suddenly felt much better. It was a fulfilled promise, the Lord restored the years the locusts had eaten! "The desires of the righteous will be fulfilled."
Me, righteous? Well, I know my only righteousness is because I have accepted the Great Exchange that Christ offers -- His death on the cross so that I am off the hook for paying the wages of sin. In fact, I have never been more keenly aware of my own frailties as I have been lately. Marriage is hard. Blended-Family Marriages are even harder. This is why I had been writing on How to Train Your Dragon.
I needed my own advice more desperately than any of you readers needed it. I needed to apply the principles that I observed in that film to my own situation. And so I did, and what a world of difference it has made.
The truth is that instead of Training my Dragon, I ended up changing me. I literally trained myself to be a better wife by implementing what I learned from that seemingly insignificant kid's movie. As I said, my husband suddenly wanted to whisk me away on a cruise!
And so I got to thinking, "Hey, maybe I should take my Dragon Training blog series and make it into a book." I hope and pray that the concepts, founded on God's Word, will help transform others' marriages too. So that is what I've been doing. So, I am sorry that I haven't been adding to this blog -- but rest assured that the Lord is hard at work, conforming me to His image, and calling me onward to do more.
I trust and pray that the Lord is revealing more of himself to you as you seek him with your whole heart. Blessings, precious readers.
Love, Darilyn
Sorry it has been so long since I last blogged. First of all, my husband surprised me at the end of January by suggesting we get a way for an impromptu vacation. We flew down to Los Angeles and got on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera. It was wonderful!!
The day after we got home, I sold my house. Not the one I have been living in for the past two years and three months with my new husband, but the one in which I lived for seven years as a single mom with my daughter and son. I had been holding onto it, renting it out and keeping up with the payments. But I finally felt that letting it go was an important step in letting go of former things. The Lord says, "Forget the former things, see I am doing a new thing. Do you not perceive it?"
Well, yes, I perceive it. So I sold my house. It was kind of hard, I mean the heights of my growing children were marked on the door-frame between the kitchen and living room. One can see how they overtook me in height, the dates recorded there beside each mark. It was a bit sad to think of another family living there, but the home went for well above list price, so I suddenly felt much better. It was a fulfilled promise, the Lord restored the years the locusts had eaten! "The desires of the righteous will be fulfilled."
Me, righteous? Well, I know my only righteousness is because I have accepted the Great Exchange that Christ offers -- His death on the cross so that I am off the hook for paying the wages of sin. In fact, I have never been more keenly aware of my own frailties as I have been lately. Marriage is hard. Blended-Family Marriages are even harder. This is why I had been writing on How to Train Your Dragon.
I needed my own advice more desperately than any of you readers needed it. I needed to apply the principles that I observed in that film to my own situation. And so I did, and what a world of difference it has made.
The truth is that instead of Training my Dragon, I ended up changing me. I literally trained myself to be a better wife by implementing what I learned from that seemingly insignificant kid's movie. As I said, my husband suddenly wanted to whisk me away on a cruise!
And so I got to thinking, "Hey, maybe I should take my Dragon Training blog series and make it into a book." I hope and pray that the concepts, founded on God's Word, will help transform others' marriages too. So that is what I've been doing. So, I am sorry that I haven't been adding to this blog -- but rest assured that the Lord is hard at work, conforming me to His image, and calling me onward to do more.
I trust and pray that the Lord is revealing more of himself to you as you seek him with your whole heart. Blessings, precious readers.
Love, Darilyn
1 comment:
Dear Darilyn. If this blog helps one marriage it will be worth your efforts. Keep up your writing. You are a gifted writer. Hopefully you will get wisked away on a cruise or trip again!
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