New Series!

Over the past few weeks I have been praying and thinking about starting a series on our blog. The only other "series" I have done is updates on our baby so I was not sure if this was something I wanted to do. After much prayer and discussion with Jacob, we decided this would be a good thing for me to do. It will help me to become more disciplined with writing on the blog and also reach out to other topics that are impacting me individually and us as a family.  So I have no fancy name for the new series but it will focus on the book "Peace Making Women" written by Tara Klena Barthel and Judy Dabler. My hope is that this will not be a book review but instead will explain a little about what the book says but focus on how this applies to my life.
My goal for myself is to write a post on every chapter where I have been impacted. This might be every chapter or only 4 chapters, so i'm not sure if a new post will happen every week or every other week. These posts will also serve as a reflection for myself about what I am learning, favorite quotes and practice application.

So to start, here is a bit of information about the book.
Peace Making Women focuses on threes areas of conflict in our lives where we need peace. My first experience with this book was during summer Sunday School at our church. Our church had divided men and women into different studies with women focusing on this book. I was only able to attend the last 2 sessions but was so impacted b those that I knew I needed to do this. Everyone experiences disagreements, hurt, pain, anger and worry in their life and these are all feelings the book covers. Individually we may experience these differently and to different degrees but none the less we ALL experience these. This book focuses on three areas in our lives where conflict occurs; Conflict with God. Conflict with Others, and Conflict within yourself.  As I have been reading through the book I have noticed conflict within all three of these areas in my own life which I was not aware of.  The next post will focus on the first section "conflict with God", and the impact on my life. Stay Tuned.