Author: Lisa Bryant

Get over yourself!

We were just back from our honeymoon when I made the mistake of using my husband’s toothpaste.  I thought we could share everything…toothpaste included.  But who knew there were different ways to get toothpaste from a tube?  All you neat people – are thinking – of course, there is a right way and a wrong way to squeeze toothpaste from a tube.  People like me — think if feels good to grab the middle of a tube and squish it where it has never been squished before.  Mike has a system for getting the Colgate on his brush.  He starts at the bottom and strategically squeezes a little at time keeping a smooth tube at all times.   To save our marriage… we decided we would never share toothpaste. Flash forward 25 years and we are on an anniversary getaway to Washington, D.C.  Mike wants to walk through the city carefully viewing each monument and reading all the displays in the museums. I want to jump on the trolley with the guide who will tell me …

At the altar…

God showed up in a big way at the Proverbs 31 conference.  On the final meeting of  She Speaks, Renee Swope invited us to make our way to a cross to pick up a card which read,  “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” Proverbs 19:2 Today, the Lord continued to deal with my heart.  I visited one of my favorite spots …LU Prayer Chapel.  I was alone at the altar – and found rest in my Bible and with Jesus.  The words “obedience” and “surrender” are the words the Holy Spirit has whispered to my heart since Lysa Terkeurst’s opening message.  This morning, I reviewed the words to the old hymn “Trust and Obey.” When we walk with the Lord In the Light of His Word What a glory He sheds on our way! Let us do His good will; He abides with us still, And with all who will trust and obey.” The next verse got me … “But we never can prove The …