Righteously Redeemed

Hi Ladies! I am so thrilled to have the opportunity to get to chat with you guys. I do not take this opportunity lightly. When I was trying to figure out what I wanted to chat with you guys about, God kept saying talk about weathering the storm. I didn’t really want to because we are going through the aftermath of a storm right now and I don’t feel qualified to talk about this, but in true fashion He kept bringing it up. Then it hit me, I don’t have to talk about the storm we are going through right now, I have been through a ton of storms. By storms I mean things or situations in your life that can tear you down and take you away from God if you allow them to. Things like Divorce, miscarriages, not being able to have children, death of a child, or loved one etc, etc. So, today I am going to chat with you about the storm of divorce. Ladies, I fell in love when I was 17 years old with the man I just knew I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I mean I loved him wit...

As a young girl, I longed for one thing, my daddy to be proud of me. After years of not having a good relationship with my father, I longed to be accepted by him. I met my husband at 21, who now I call my Hosea. Why? You ask. The first time I read the book of Hosea, I got the love story of Hosea and Gomer. He was able to love a broken woman as my husband was able to love me in spite of me not knowing how to receive that love, so romantic right, what's even more romantic is as I dug deeper and deeper into Hosea we see a love story unlike anything before, that has no limits, and never ends.  In chapter 1 we see where the Lord called Hosea to marry a promiscuous woman.  Then he was to have children with her and they would have names of promiscuity. Why? Why in the world would Christ call him an innocent man to do this, enter a relationship where He knew Hosea could and probably would end up hurt? Mind you, that at this same time as we as humans often do, the Israelites w...