Blessed Beyond Belief

When people are big and God is small by Edward T. Welch Book Review by Madelyn Petta age 11 Was the book helpful to me? Yes. Very muchly. If yes, then why? ------------------------ because it told me how to overcome the fear of man, which is to look at how great and awesome god is and how tiny, helpless and putrid man is. Then you examine the ‘scary’ qualities of god, which makes you push people out of your mind. You also need to examine your fear of man closely and pick out exactly what you want from people. Look at this desire. Most likely it is not a biblical desire but a false selfish lust. People are not love tank fillers. What I learned . most of our felt needs are only selfish lusts . we need Jesus to replace our ‘People love cups’ with ‘Jesus love cups. . If God is the God who made the whole universe, the whole earth, all the never ending galaxies, planets and stars, if God is the God who made you and I, then why do we fear helpless people and not H...

I have been thinking a lot about rough heels lately. You may be thinking that that is a pretty strange thing to be thinking about, and you'd probably be right, but let me tell you my rough heels story. I used to have the roughest heels in town. My heels were peeling, cracked and painful all the time but especially in summer. They got so bad in the summer time that the cracks would go down deep into my raw flesh and they would burn. I could hardly walk because it was so painful. I would have to crazy glue them closed and wear socks and tennis shoes in the summer. BLEH! Then one day I discovered this product: Artemis Woman Heel Smoother . For about 35.00 I was the proud owner of a tool that really helped my poor heels. I had to buy replacement head and it ran on batteries so it was pretty costly for a budgeting Mama like me. But it worked. I had no more cracks. My heels didn't get caught on nylons and silky things. They were....... normal again. But, after I was ...