by Ginger Harrington | Oct 5, 2015 | Listening to God, Love God
When Martha Learns to be Mary My brain is always working, spewing out thoughts and feelings. When my brain isn’t in conversational overdrive, activity is the name of the game. Doing and productivity push me to want to conquer my never-ending tasks. Sometimes the...
by Ginger Harrington | Oct 2, 2015 | Listening to God, Love God
[tweetthis]Things that bother us have a way of piling up, don’t they?[/tweetthis] ‘But the Lord answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the...
by Ginger Harrington | Sep 29, 2015 | Embrace Truth
When my mother was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer, I was thousands of miles away, living in Japan. I struggled with why God allowed such a devastating diagnosis to come three weeks after my Marine husband left for a six-month deployment. Why this? Why now? When...
by Ginger Harrington | Sep 24, 2015 | Emotions, Love God
Some days I’m a Martha. I can Martha myself into a frenzy as ministry duties, family responsibilities, life management, and work pile up with lightening speed. Busy, worried, and bothered, my nerves are frazzled and my good intentions begin to feel like...
by Ginger Harrington | Sep 17, 2015 | Emotions, Events, Family, Military Life
The new student orientation is the last place I want to be. Fidgeting with nerves, my sixteen-year-old daughter stands beside me. She is the new girl…again. Exhausted, I’m just as anxious as my daughter. I know I am absorbing her stress, but I can’t stop myself. I am...