OBA Women's Ministry

06/11/2026

06/01/2025

Please make plans to attend our annual Ladies' Day event. We are so excited about what God has in store!

06/13/2024

06/08/2024

I noticed that a couple of my potatoes from the grocery store - one blue, and one gold - were growing eyes. So hubby and I planted them in a big pot, not knowing if they would grow. But hoping . . .

Lately, our deck has turned into the wild kingdom with rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels, and birds sniffing, digging, and pecking at everything. I figured they were going to go after those potatoes for sure. We placed netting and a grill on top of the pot to keep them from being eaten before they even had a chance to send up shoots.

My husband went to check on them the other day and came inside looking dejected. "I have to wash that netting. The birds have been aiming right on top."

Me: "But did you look past that inside the pot?"

Hubby: "No. I was too busy looking at the mess."

He was so focused on the bird's mess that he didn't even see what was going on inside the pot. Because, . . . well, see for yourself. Both the potato plants have taken off!

I was thinking how life is like this. How so often our eyes are snagged on the doo doo around us, and how easy it is not to look past that into the deeper blessings that are growing just under that mess.

This world will come with more mess than we know what to do with. You can't mess-proof life. It doesn't matter how many nets and grills you devise around yourself and your loved ones, the messes will arrive from a direction you may not have even expected. The secret is to look past the mess. Look deeper. And find the blessing.

05/22/2024

05/17/2024

Wednesday’s Wisdom

05/16/2024

". . . If the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us?"

Gideon isn't the only one who asks this question. How do you square the goodness of God with the "all this" of our lives? Of this world?

God doesn't answer Gideon's why. Not one word. Instead, he tells little Gideon who feels scared and insecure: "Go in this might of yours and save . . ."

In this might of yours. My dear, did you know God has given you a might? At your most insecure, at your weakest hour, at your most vulnerable moment, you possess a might. The power of the Spirit in you, the activation of your faith as it works through your particular gifting . . . all this gives birth to a might that is unique to you.

Here is the miracle: you might be feeling utterly fragile. But in this very place, you have a might that is all yours, like a ring of mountains that surrounds a vulnerable valley.

Go today in this might of yours.