When I began Real Hurts, Real Hope more than a year ago, my purpose was to give hope to Christian women who hurt and to the people who love them. This remains my passion.

Healing the brokenhearted is my heartbeat. It’s God’s work for me and my joy.

God spoke a “second step” to my heart too: The Sisterhood of Beautiful Warriors. Click the link and take a peek.

My beautiful warrior blog encourages Christian women who have struggles — and don’t we all? — to acknowledge their pain, bring it to the Lord and leave it at the cross AND to embrace the truth of who they are: God’s little girls all grown up, completely loved and accepted by him.

In a few days, I’ll pour Real Hurts, Real Hope into The Sisterhood of Beautiful Warriors and I’m asking you to come along. I plan to send you the Beautiful Warrior blog and let it minister to you. If you don’t want it, tell me. Just send an email to Lucy@LucyAnnMoll.com. Sound reasonable?

A few things my Beautiful Warrior blog gives you:

~ encouragement, just as you are

~ reminders that you are who God says you are

~ opportunity to hear from other Christian women who’ve faced difficulties and found hope

I’ll post Monday through Thursday and some Fridays at Beautiful Warrior. If you have suggestions, I’d love to hear them.

Here’s the lineup, which’ll change with your input ~

Rainy Days and Mondays

Blog Talk Tuesdays

Warrior Wednesdays

Let’s Give Thanks Thursdays

Funny Fridays

In case you’re asking, Why the change? I can’t keep up with two blogs and do both well. A girl’s gotta know her limitations and where God is leading. 

You Are Loved!

Are you a modern-day woman at the well? Do you face rejection?

Jesus did.

I do. We all do.

Here is a video that’ll speak to your heart. I have somthing to say afterward. After you watch, read my P.S. Thanks.

Question: What rejection do you face now?

You are loved!

P.S. I’m combining my two blogs into one. I just can’t do both well. Within the week this blog will fold into “The Sisterhood of Beautiful Warriors.” I’ll add your names to the Beautiful Warrior blog subscription list. It is the second step of “Real Hurts, Real Hope,” focusing on your victory in Christ. Questions? Send me an email: Lucy@LucyAnnMoll.com

The other morning when I sing-songed, “Time to get dressed,” my able-bodied son groaned.

“Mom, can’t you help me?”

“Your pants are right there, John.”

“Help me put them on.”

“You’re 10 years old. Ten-year-old boys dress themselves.” I left the room. Within a few minutes, he bounded down the steps and into the kitchen. Pants on. Shirt on. Socks on. And, I presume, boxers on too.

Had I helped him dress, my unspoken message would have shouted, “You incompetent, kid! You can’t even do something as simple as pull on pants.”

When you comfort a friend — or she comforts you — do you cross a boundary and help her do what she can?

Respect her self-worth and yours: Help her only with what she cannot do.

This is an expression of real love.

You see this concept of boundary-setting all over Scripture. Among them, the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10. An expert of the law asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus answered with this story to illustrate a biblical principle.

While a man (very likely a Jew) traveled from Jerusalem to Jericho, robbers jumped him. They took his clothes and beat him, leaving him half-dead at the side of the road. A priest passed on by, then a Levite. Finally, a Samaritan, considered scum by Jews, saw him and stopped.

Here’s a list of what the Samaritan did:

bandaged his wounds
treated his wounds with the “medicine” of the day
lifted him onto him donkey and brought him to an inn
nursed him for a day
paid for the man’s extended stay at the inn
paid the innkeeper to watch over him
promised to pay extra expenses when he returned

Here is the one thing we know he chose not to do: Halt his own travel plans. He didn’t think, “Poor guy, I better stay with him or else he may never get better, so I must stop everything for him. . .even if that means neglecting my family and my work.”

The Good Samaritan had good boundaries.

Good boundaries keep the good stuff in and let the bad stuff out.

After telling this parable, Jesus asked the expert in the Law, “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”

The expert in the Law said, “The one who had mercy on him.”

Jesus said, “Go and do likewise.”

This is what real love to is looks like.

Question: What does real love look like to you? Please leave a coment if you have a moment.

You Are Loved,

are you in the dark?

or

have you reached the morning?

You Are Loved!