I am so inspired and excited to get 2017 underway building He Is Good! By the way, I named this website after “Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good” Psalm 107. I was about 5 years old and I remember saying this to my parents. It was my favorite verse. I don’t even know when I learned it, but I remember being a child and loving these words.
I just got back from the mountains on a 3 day adventure for New Years. It was such a gift to hang out with new people, people that I haven’t met, people that I haven’t had an extended hang out session with. It was a quite an experience to be around different personalities, each making up our uniqueness.
One of the women that I hung out with used to be a devout Christian, even planting a church, leading BIBLE studies, and so much more. Something changed in her journey and she told me she is pretty much an atheist now. I shared a little bit of my story with her, telling her about how I have come back to my faith, and come back even stronger, unlearning what I thought to be what Jesus was about, but learning that it is about having a relationship with Him. Before I thought I had to be perfect, sinless, work my way up to be a child of God, but I have learned that He loves us right where we are, in our sins, in our unperfectness. I am going to keep her in my prayers that she will find that faith again.