Discipleship · kindness · Mentoring

This Changes EVERYTHING!

Adorned #14 – You can listen to this post here on the Refresh Her podcast.

I don’t know if your mother had a saying that you remember, but my mom used to tell me and my sisters to “Act pretty.”  It has nothing to do with outward appearance, She was telling us to be kind.  We all have to be reminded of that…even in our adult years!

Paul tells us in Titus 2, Older women are to teach what is good, and to train the young women to  love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, and kind.

Why does he have to remind us of this?  Because it’s so easy for us to DO all the things we should be doing, but with the wrong attitude.  We can do the laundry, cook a meal and make the house spotless, but be huffing and puffing a bad attitude while doing so. (I’m So guilty!)

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discipline · Godly Character Traits

A Life of Sound Thinking

This is lesson 8 of the Adorned Study. You can listen to the podcast here.

One spring day in my East Tennessee backyard, I took my grandsons out on our acre of property, with both excitement and kites in tow!  We were going to fly their new kites for the first time!  They were ecstatic!  It had been many years since I had done this and I wondered if I could remember how to get this piece of plastic and string soaring into the air!  

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Biblical Womanhood · Godly Character Traits · podcast

A Woman of Excellence

How would you feel if you asked a friend how your outfit looked on you today and she said,

No worries! It’s mediocre.

Would you go change? What if you made your family supper and asked how it tasted and they said,

Thanks. It’s mediocre

We’d be disappointed, right? Why then should we settle for making

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Biblical Womanhood · kindness · podcast

Show a Little Kindness

The world is filled with attitudes of selfishness, impatience and rudeness, so when a woman displays the godly attribute of kindness, it is a striking contrast.  This week’s podcast episode will answer what, why, where and how of kindness in a believer’s life. Oh, and listen to see if you would pass “the kindness quiz.”

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