God Doesn’t Need How-To Classes or Webinars

Have you ever taken a class on how to do something? Maybe, like me, you’ve signed up for free webinars, watched an online video, and read an article or book with step-by-step instructions.

There’s no shortage of information to assist in various pursuits.

Need gardening 101? What about steps in fixing your clogged sink—fixing your spouse or defiant child? Starting a business? Want to finally keep New Year’s resolutions? Lose weight? Get healthy? Home remedies? Pick the winning lotto numbers? Curious how they do that? (And that is just about anything.)

The How-To Trap

I’ve completed how-to classes on writing a book and webinars for sales and marketing tips. My inbox receives weekly emails on interests in the publishing industry and inspirational devotions for Christian living.

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God—What Big Eyes You Have!

This is for you. The teen girl who feels invisible. The mom surrounded by loneliness. The woman who wonders if anyone cares. The man struggling with meaning in life. Those touched by hopelessness. Souls caught in the pit of despair. The lost who don’t believe they can be found.

To everyone who’s ever questioned, Is God there? Does He know? Does He see?

Little Red Riding Hood’s wolf in disguise might have been portrayed with big eyes—“The better to see you with.” But it doesn’t compare to the Lord Jehovah’s eyes. Vast. Keen. Aware.

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A Year’s Review—Top Posts: Pastor Wife Confessions and Marriage

“For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” (Romans 15:4, ESV)

Hope is never far away. Christ, the Word of God, brings hope near.

Thanks to the Hope Is Among Us  community of readers for making 2015 a wonderful year of blogging for Girl Friday. I’m looking forward to 2016 with each of you as we grow together in a love for God’s Word and express scriptural truths as life happens. Real. Authentic. Soulful.

My site host, Word Press, sent an annual blog report. Here are the highlights from 2015:

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Give Me The Beat Boys

By Karen Friday

Have you ever lost the beat? Like clapping to a song? It happens in church and concerts. Out of sync people who merrily enjoy the music undaunted by their lack of groove.

My son Caleb’s natural flair for rhythm ups the ante in drumming skills. He rocks the house every week at Believers church in our worship band.

A bent towards keeping the beat runs in the family—at least for the guys. My husband Mike is a talented drummer. Like father, like son. Me? Not so much.

Mike and I started dating in college. He lived with his parents in town. Away from home, I grew fond of hanging out at the Friday’s. A poor college student in desperate need of home-cooked meals and family sentiments. Well, and the fact that a cute guy lived there.

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