Welcome to the blog of Refreshing Moments with Sharon Fletcher. Here you’ll find posts and video devotionals to help inspire and encourage you with Biblical truths.
We pray these moments refresh and restore your relationship with the Creator.
We won't move because we believe our fears more than we believe God. We shrink back. We become prisoners in our own mind. We become hostages to our own thoughts. At that point, the enemy has done a might fine job of keeping us from being all that God has created us to be.
But there is an anecdote. It may not happen overnight. It will take some effort. But, just like in every other situation, if you consistently apply it, it will work.
Read MoreHey you! Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend.
So, let's have a real conversation. Have you ever gone through a period in your life where you felt like your eyes were opened, but you couldn't see a thing? Like so much was going on that you needed a solution for, and although you were looking in all the places that you thought were right, you couldn't find one to save your life?
In the fall of 1999, I had begun my second year of pharmacy school. Although many would look at this as a major accomplishment, I felt like a complete failure. I had always done well in school. I certainly never had a problem with passing tests after I had studied. For the first time in my life, I would study for a test, and fail.
I would spend much of my weekends and my afternoons when I got home from class studying. At times, I would stay up all night studying. To no avail, I would still fail many tests. I was blessed to pull off a 75, at times, and ecstatic when I saw anything above an 80!
This may not sound like a big deal to some people. I get that. This was totally foreign to me, and I was not handling it well.
Then, the love of my life, my grandmother, fell really ill and passed away.
I felt like all the walls had come tumbling down around me.
I was in a really dark place. I talked to friends. I went to church. I prayed. I joined study groups. I did all that I knew to do, and could not get any relief.
My eyes were wide shut.
