a settled place

What if your ministry doesn't have any glamour or glory - no receiving line, no words of appreciation, no service to acknowledge or send you? What if your ministry pushes you past your limits, and brings out the ugliest, and doesn't seem to be serving anyone at all? What if your ministry is actually doing things that you don't want to be doing? What if your ministry is picking up the pieces of someone else's brokenness, and that makes you feel even more broken than you did be

In our Bible study group right now, we're working through "Grace in Chaos: Biblical Hope for the Hard Days in Motherhood". It has generated some wonderful discussion and so much self-examination as well, as any good study does. But there's an emotion I've been wrestling with on a number of different levels in the past couple weeks that isn't covered in the book - embarrassment. I've failed in hard-to-recover-from ways several times in the recent past, and I know there is Gosp