Simply Redeemed

I've wanted to post a new blog for some time now but it has taken a lot of time to work through all the Lord is teaching me. To work through all the decisions we have to make. It is also really hard to be productive in a hard season of physical pain and loss of dreams. The season is still hard and the working and wrestling is still being done, but I wanted to share with you all some of what the Lord has been teaching me in hopes that by God's grace it may help someone else. "Father, I want a baby" "Daddy, please rid me of this disease." Lord, give me just one day of comfort and relief from pain." These are the things I have been praying. EVERYDAY. More than once a day. I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done.   8  Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it a