Tag: surrender

Fighting our Battles on our Own

Imagine. We’re on a boat drifting down a calm river. Suddenly, the wind picks up. Waves begin tossing us around. Boatloads of water are coming in the boat. In a panic, we grab a bucket and start scooping water overboard as fast as we can. We’re sweating and wearing ourselves out, convinced that if we…

By Donna Wuerch Noble November 10, 2024 0

Finding Our Way Home

Let me tell you about the most lost I’ve ever been — more than once or twice! Picture this: new city, unfamiliar streets, and me, utterly convinced I could find my way back home without asking for directions. Spoiler alert: I missed my road home each time. I had just moved to the metropolis of…

By Donna Wuerch Noble June 14, 2024 Off

My Redeemer’s Hands

We read several devotions daily, plus we read a chapter from the Bible. A few days ago we read Psalm 31. As we read, my spirit was quickened by David’s plight as He was praying in distress, but fully trusting in God. He prayed Psalm 31:5 — “Into your hands I commit my spirit; deliver…

By Donna Wuerch Noble April 4, 2024 Off

Being the Spice of Life

I just can’t complain about anything, but I sure could if I let myself go there. But I can’t complain at all, especially when I see others with tremendous physical issues, heartbreak issues, homeless issues, and so many other issues. I was touched by Shane Claiborne’s book, “The Irresistible Revolution”, subtitled “Living as an Ordinary…

By Donna Wuerch Noble July 23, 2023 Off

Have Thine Own Way

That was the title of a classic hymn that speaks to the importance of an attitude of surrendering our ways to God’s BEST ways! “Have thine own way, Lord. Have thine own way.You are the Potter. I am the clay.Mold me and make me. After Your will.While I am waiting – yielded and still.” That…

By Donna Wuerch Noble May 15, 2023 Off

Being Enough

I remember a time when I begged God to make me just like other super-moms and super-wives – organized, intentional with preparing healthy meals, ensuring my children were the respectful, honorable, ideal kids, and dutifully being the “pristine and perfect” wife, with a “zippedy-do-dah” kind of personality. I so wanted to imitate other women who…

By Donna Wuerch Noble December 12, 2022 Off