Seeking

Greetings to you in the Lord, beloved! October 20th marked the 1-year anniversary Husband and I attended a  12 Stones counseling retreat with four members from and at our church. I had never felt so exposed and humiliated by my sin. By the last day, I began to shut down, wanting to run away and hide. But it was part of God's perfect and gracious plan to continue exposing a distorted understanding and application of the gospel. Through much of my life I thought He responded to me based on my performance (which I thought was fairly decent), and I responded to others based on their performance (not so decent), damaging relationships, especially my marriage. I was looking down on people, as opposed to looking up at Christ . But fellowship with the body plus   consistent preaching of the word and gospel from the pulpit, equipping school and women's bible study  began to chip away at my heart these last 4 years and especially the last.  Our prayer is that the Lord would ...