Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

So I’ll start out by stating the prototypical stats. I’m a single girl, desiring to live my life to the fullest while learning to embrace contentment. After all, where is joy when there’s discontentment? Though “career-less” by cultural standards, I find moments of boredom few and far between. Being a nanny, pianist, seamstress, photographer, writer… and of course, reader, fills my life up to the brim.

I grew up in a conservative Christian family, which made me a “good girl”, right? Recently I thumbed through an old dog-eared journal I had written years ago. As I read little fragments of my rigid outlook on life back then, I was appalled. I had no clue at the time of those writings as to the chains that were gripping my soul. I was on the extreme side of good. I was godly—or so I looked, acted, dressed and spoke. However, legalism is a subtle tool of Satan’s and I would come to find out that it can be as damaging and destructive as overt and obvious sin.

The Lord took me on a journey that ended at the cross where those chains fell off. When I came to understand His love and mercy, and the full impact of the Cross of Christ, I could no longer hold to any goodness of my own. Godliness took on a whole new meaning. My rules and dogma fell apart when I saw myself for who I was. My heart of stone was softened. Christ took over. He truly did change my life. I was no longer enslaved to myself, nor was I elevated to an abhorrent level of pride. He stripped away every shard of arrogance. He gave me a fresh love for Him and others and exuberance for life. Sometimes I can hardly contain it!

This site deals mainly with relationships. I have greatly enjoyed the things I have read here. It honors and humbles me to have the opportunity to share from my own limited knowledge on the subject. Let us remember that when our relationship with Christ is strong, perturbations in other relationships will be few if even existent. No matter what your situation in life is, keep your eyes on the cross!