⚠️ Long, sappy post! Ok, so I’ve done a lot of these lately. Have mercy! I’m still stuck at home trying my darndest to recover from back surgery so let me do what I do… write! I’ve spent the afternoon cleaning out my boy’s rooms, mostly going through the old toy chest that has been stowed away in Jonathan’s closet all these years. (Well, that’s embarrassing !) Every time Blake came in the room, I’d be sitting there boo-hooing, he’d…
Let me tell y’all about my Bo.He was a beautiful black lab with a big diamond of white on his neck. We got him as a pup soon after Jemima died. Jemima was my protector. She’d just as soon bite you as look at you. I’m talking a defender of her territory! I’m pretty sure she saved us from an attempted break in one Christmas Eve when Blake wasn’t home and somebody out there in a big blue van might…
The simple testimony of one BFI in a nutshell:I am not a particularly ambitious person…I just want to love Jesus with all out, complete, crazy abandonment! I have no desire for self promotion, I just want to love Jesus so much that it causes other’s hearts to burn with love and desire for Him. It matters not in the very least How He uses my life; whether alone on my knees or in some public way, I just want to…
Bibby’s BlessingsSept. 3, 2017 Jesus told the woman at the well,“… whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:14 My beloved ones! Today I have been reminded of the truth of this in a way that has nearly exploded my heart with humble, almost earth shattering praise! I listened to a sermon by a young man who…
Bibby’s Blessings: June 15, 2017 Solomon found himself in a frightening position! His father, David had died and suddenly the responsibility for governing God’s people fell squarely on his shoulders. Bless him! So he prayed a desperate prayer… “Give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong.” 1 Kings 3:9 The world’s always had this crazy way of desiring to create our own right and wrong on the fly… Yea….we’re like toddlers…
Bibby’s Blessings: Oct. 3, 2016 You’ve heard it all your life: God Loves You. You’ve heard it so much that it may be old news and it might have lost its punch. But let me just tell you something very, very profound; something that, as long as I live, I’ll never get over. Let me tell you WHY He loves you…. I mean, when we love somebody, isn’t there usually some attraction to them that draws that love out of…
Many years ago, after having had one very precious son, and having experienced a very emotionally painful miscarriage, Blake and I prayed one night that the Lord might give us another son. His answer to us was, “Wait. I have a plan!” And so, reluctantly we waited. And soon, I conceived and gave birth to a beautiful, charming son with stars in his eyes! And we were so glad that God asked us to wait for THIS child!! For he…
June 9, 2016 This morning I read the story of Mary and the alabaster box of costly perfume she poured out on the feet of Jesus, washing his feet with her tears and drying them with her hair. This lady was clearly desperate for Him! I get the feeling that there would have been nothing too costly for her, nothing too humiliating, nothing that could have restrained her complete and total abandonment to Him. But I can’t help but notice…
On May 15, 2016, my little boy, Jonathan Andrew Isbell became Doctor Jon Isbell! And words don’t even go there… So treasure these things up in your heart, girl because no one else on earth will ever know, other than your precious, precious God just how the GLORY got all over your heart and nearly suffocated your soul that day!!! Soul breathlessness. …How the light of God’s presence just spread itself ALL OVER ME; …How I must have been watching…
Bibby’s BlessingsApril 15, 2016 “For you, O LORD, are a shield around me; you are my glory, the one who holds my head high.” Ps.3:3 There are few verses, as your mother, that I have found more comforting than this; that there is an invisible shield around you, my beloved ones. As I prayed for all of you this morning by name, I took each of you in my hand, held my opened hands up to my Father and asked…