Brianne Henry

Tonight I spent a few lovely hours with some ladies from my church making hair bows for the girls at the orphanage in El Salvador. As women, we love to talk while we work and spent some time getting to know each other. The topics bounced from our husbands to our pasts to our families to having kids (or current kids) and so on. Ladies, I know you understand how topics can bounce quickly from subject to subject when we get together! Needless to say, we covered a lot of material in those short couple of hours. On the way home, I was thinking over all that was said, especially the parts about having/raising kids, and I was struck by a couple of thoughts. First of all, how do you raise godly children? That question led me to "what are the most important things to teach your children?" I obviously don't have the answer but I did think of two very important things I have learned that I want to instill in my children from a young age. And I also hope I continue to live by this ...

Generally (well for the past two Christmases that we've been married), I have sent out a Christmas letter documenting our year complete with a few pictures. This year I am #1 - a little lazy to address & stamp all those envelopes and #2 - on a pretty tight budget - so I have decided to use technology and send out our Christmas card via my blog. (And I also can't find my address list!!!!!!). 2011 has been a pretty crazy year for the Henry family. Really crazy actually. In February, after about 7 months of prayerful consideration, we resigned from our jobs, effective the beginning of June.   The Lord had called us to seminary, which required a move to Kansas City. We put our house on the market and prepared ourselves for the “big city.” The Lord blessed us with a great buyer for our house near the end of May (nothing like cutting it close). On June 14, we loaded up our borrowed Harley trailer and we set out for Kansas City. We moved from a 1300 square foot home into a 700 ...

My 25th birthday was last week. At first, I was going to do 25 things I loved about myself to celebrate my birthday...but then I decided that 25 was a little much and that I might not be able to think up that many things!  I am going to take this time to appreciate the things that I love about myself. Every woman should do this! I must say that I am not trying to be conceited or brag on myself, I am only teaching myself to love ME! Top 10 Things I Love About Me  10 - My choice in men. Bahahaha! I love my husband. :)  9 - My musical ability. Well, all I can do is play the piano, but I can play it darn good!  8 - My way with people. In my most recent job (and especially through the training aspect) I have realized that some people do not converse easily with strangers. I don't seem to have a problem with this! In fact, I enjoy talking with people.  7 - My family. I am so glad I came from where I did! I wouldn't trade my family for anything.  6 - M...

The Bible study that I am currently doing now is taking me through the Lord's prayer and showing me what each part means. The Lord's prayer is a group of "index sentences" which is supposed to show us HOW to pray (not necessarily WHAT to pray). By following these index sentences, you can then fully grasp the greatness and power of prayer. Today I was looking at "Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." I can quote the entire Lord's prayer (although I think I only know King James Version!) but have I ever stopped to really think about what that means? I did today! For one, this short sentence is way of saying, "Jesus we can't wait for Your return so that Your will may be done on the new earth with You as our King." It's also saying..."while I'm waiting for that to happen, I will be submissive to your will in my life." Submission, not an easy task...for some anyway. Matthew 7:21 is a real kicker if you think about...

How is your prayer life?  I ask this because I am currently reading a book and doing a study on prayer. I am trying to strengthen my prayer life. As I'm learning, prayer is our connection to God...when we pray He takes us in His outstretched arms and holds us while we talk and listen to Him. I feel like I'm one of those people whose relationship with God goes in waves. If there's trouble or I need something from Him, then I'm praying and reading that Bible of mine. Before we moved and then once we got here, I was very diligent and disciplined about prayer. I have a prayer journal that I wrote in nearly every day. However, things are becoming routine here now. We've been here almost five months and we are settled into our new life. Why is it that when our lives become routine, we tend to slack off with God? Do you do this also? Or is it just me? You can look at other things in my life and notice how I am becoming a slacker! I worked so hard over the summer and wa...

Okay, so funny story. Well, it was NOT funny until yesterday evening and now it's only semi-funny because I'm not quite over it and sure the threat is gone. But still, I'm sure it will be fine. At the beginning of this month, I was desperate so I started applying for random jobs on Craigslist. Really? What was I thinking? One of the jobs I had applied for was a personal assistant to....someone/thing? I sent them my resume (which unfortunately has my email/address/phone on it). I get an email back telling me what this "person" does for a living, the job requirements, AND that I have been hired (along with my first job assignment). I email back saying that I don't accept jobs from people that I have never met and if they want to interview me to let me know. End of story, I hear nothing else.... Fast forward to yesterday...there is a knock on the door at about 8:30am. Its the FedEx man with a package! Luke opens it and it's a random $3,200 check from peop...

My last post ended with something I would like to pick up on today. I finished with asking where your identity was. I have been learning about my identity in Christ through Romans 8. I have learned so much about the love, grace, forgiveness and mercy of God through this study. If you take a look at Romans 8:5-17, it lists the differences between flesh and spirit. Proudly, I am OF the spirit and so are you provided that you are a believer. Read through that and take note of the differences between flesh and spirit. The flesh is death, hostile to God, can't submit to God's law, please Him and doesn't belong to God. The spirit has life, peace, we are children of God, we have no fear, we are a slave to no one and we are glorified with Him (to name a few). Wow, I am so incredibly happy to be a part of the spirit instead of the flesh. But if you think about all the unbelievers around you...they are walking zombies. They will die - they have no hope. Not only do they not want pl...