Every day we make decisions. Some decisions are life-altering and require much time and attention. As children of God, we have “an edge” when it comes to making important choices. We can look back over our lives and see where God has been at work. …
Mentoring
Our Tongue Will Always Tell the Story
“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.” [Psalm 19:14] Someone once said “Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me. But deep down I know …
Kind to Yourself
Remember in the movie Bambi when Thumper quoted his dad? “If you can’t say something nice . . . don’t say nothing at all.” Double negative notwithstanding, the little guy spoke the truth. We teach our kids to be kind to animals. We teach them …
No Minor Meetings
I went into a store after work to pick up a few groceries. It was late, and I was in the usual rush. The young checkout girl cracked her gum, scanned the groceries and punched in numbers on items that repeatedly wouldn’t scan. Only once …
Reaching Out in Kindness
The fruit of the Spirit, kindness, is love in action. Kindness cries with the hurting, encourages the discouraged, and laughs with the joyful. Kindness expressed through the life of a humble believer is a powerful testimony of the love of Christ. Today may our love …
Curbing the Tongue with a New Language
“…they will speak with new tongues…”(Mark 16:17c) I listened on Skype the other day as our granddaughter responded to her mother by saying nine—German for no. Not surprising in her new found language no would be one of the first words spoken emphatically. It brought …
Clothed and in Our Right Minds
What kind of spiritual fashion statement would the Body of Christ make today if we clothed ourselves in Colossians 3:12? Clothed our mind, heart, actions, words? Prayer Request The Bible tells us in the last days evil will grow more and more. In the United …
Showing Kindness in Marriage
“Is there anything I can do for you today?” My husband often asks me that question. I don’t usually have anything for him to do, but just that he asked means a lot to me. He is so good at practicing kindness. In a marriage …
Where to Write Kindness
May’s Rooted in Christ theme is Kindness Kellie Renfroe founded Mentoring Moments in 2005 with two friends as a way to introduce women to the benefits of godly mentoring. Happily married for 23 years to Greg Renfroe, they have one daughter (13 years-old) and three …
May ~ Rooted in Kindness
John Maxwell said it this way, “No one cares how much you know until you show how much you care.” Mark Twain said, “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” The Psalmist gets to the heart of the …