by Jodie Barrett | Sep 8, 2015 | challenge, encouragement, Fall Session 2015 Sweet, featured, Keeping it real in the chaos, peace, Uncategorized
Clutter. For as much as I try, I can not clear the clutter. It’s at the back door. It’s on my desk. My closets collect it weekly. My brain is even overflowing with clutter! And for some reason when the seasons begin to change my heart begins to race with...
by Jodie Barrett | Jan 29, 2015 | blessings, burdens, challenge, contentment, difficult circumstances, encouragement, featured, healing, Suzie Eller, Uncategorized
Leave it behind! Seems simple enough, right? Just leave it behind. Well, the simplicity of it all is directly related to what IT is that we are leaving. You are not going to guess what I’ve left behind… For the last four months I have left a very...
by Jodie Barrett | Nov 24, 2014 | blessings, challenge, Fall Session, featured, Keeping it real in the chaos, Open Hearts and Homes for Christmas, peace, Uncategorized
Wow! Where have the last three months gone? It seems just like yesterday we started our Keeping It Real in the Chaos session! How are you doing with that? Are you keeping time with GOD REAL? Are you able to find Him in the piles of laundry; the endless carpool lines;...
by Jodie Barrett | Nov 19, 2014 | challenge, difficult circumstances, encouragement, Faithfulness, Fall Session, featured, Keeping it real in the chaos, overflowing, Uncategorized
Recent pain has been causing me an issue. That’s right PAIN. I try not to talk about it all the time, but it hurts almost all the time. For over 6 weeks now I have been dealing with pain in my right shoulder and sometimes my left shoulder has sympathy pain just...
by Jodie Barrett | Oct 1, 2013 | challenge, difficult circumstances, encouragement, featured, living for Christ, running, Uncategorized
The start of a race begins with the finish in mind. This weekend we set out to finish! We set out on a course with the finish in mind. The finish line. It is the one place that everyone wants to cross. We may not always set out knowing, or even believing that we can...
by Jodie Barrett | Aug 21, 2013 | blessings, challenge, featured, joy, Uncategorized
A challenge. Sometime life itself is a challenge. A challenge to see the joy, the great purpose. … But recently I learned that our eyes must be searching in order to see. Eyes that are fixed on the pain of this world are destined to be disappointed. We do, after...
