Picture of Good and Evil

December 16, 2009

Yes that's me stuck between Darth Vader and Jesus. Just your typical Saturday night.

Hi and thanks for stopping by! I'm Becky Kiser. I'm a wife, mom to 3 girls, writer, speaker, and founder of Sacred Holidays. I love Jesus and desire to see women follow Him more fully as we go hard after Him and what He has called us to.

Sister, don’t neglect this. Social media is good, this is better. I don’t share this to shame but to encourage—choose what is better, then come back to what is good. I LOVE social media (hello, it allows us to pop into each other’s worlds all throughout the day!) and the benefits far out weigh the disadvantages. However, we have to choose what is better over it.
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Waking up early, or staying up late, or choosing His Word over a fun lunch break or a Netflix binge session isn’t easier. It’s not. But you’ve done harder.
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You are stronger than you realize. You can do hard things, you’ve done them many times before. Let’s choose Him over all the other.
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If you need motivation, here are a few things that I love about studying God’s Word:
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💗 It encourages my heart. It’s wild how relevant it is. No matter the situation, there is guidance to be found here!
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👂🏼How a seemingly silent God can have such a loud voice when we choose to read His Words for ourselves.
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📖 His Word says again and again that we should read it. If you are a Christian, this should be a part of your life. I hate to put “should’s” on people but this is simply one thing you really should do.
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🔦 It shows you the way. Really and truly.
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🎥 The narrative is wild. I mean wild.
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🌄 You get to witness all the Father created.
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🏋🏼‍♀️ You find you are stronger than you realize because of Him.
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🏔 You realize you can move mountains with your faith!
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🎤 It gives you the words when you have none.
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🌱 Each time it plants a seed in you that cannot return void.
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🙄😍😤😜😩😀😭 It will show you that regardless of how you feel, you are safe with the Father... and every emotion you’ve felt, you can find someone(s) in the Word who felt the same way and God uses powerfully.
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👇🏼 Your turn!! Share with us something you love about God’s Word or studying it. OR share a tip that helps you be consistent with it too.
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(And if you need any help with studying God’s Word, just ask in the comments! 😘)

This is one of those moments I could’ve only dreamed of when I walked into my first @lifeway store at 16. I had been a Christian all of a few days and knew I needed a Bible and next to my fave mall was a store that said “Lifeway Christian Bookstore.” So I walked in that day, sat on their floor with Bibles spread out to find the perfect one. I’ve spent two decades repeating the same thing. I’ve called those books and Bible studies some of the greatest disciplers and heroes of my faith.
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Sometimes I feel bad for not saying “I could’ve never dreamed this”, but the truth is I have dreamed about this moment... never sure if it would ever happen.
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Do you know why I dreamed it? Because I’d seen it done. My Sunday School teacher, who I had NO CLUE was an international best-seller (🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️😂), wrote her Bible studies with @lifewaywomen. I sat under @bethmoorelpm teaching for years and have cracked nearly every spine of every study she’s published (Breaking Free at least three times because I’m apparently a mess 🤣). I saw her live out her thing wildly, freely, fully, faithfully week after week and page after page.
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There’s something about seeing others take a leap that gives us courage to take our next step. I hope you find that today.
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Two years ago, I spoke out loud, at @campwellsummit, for the first time that I didn’t just want to write but I wanted to write with @bhpub/@lifeway.
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A few months after that my old teacher and her amazing staff hosted a conference called LIT and it literally LIT a 🔥 under me to not just take a step but a giant leap. 6 months later I signed a contract with Lifeway that is now, just one year after signing, in your hands (or should if it isn’t 😉).
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I spoke through tears sharing this story with the staff at that same Lifeway I walked into 20 years ago. Then I grabbed the books with my name on them and found myself at home on the floor and signed them all.
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Don’t be afraid to dream.
Don’t be afraid to leap in faith. ❤️😘

This has been a rollercoaster of a season. We are experiencing some amazing highs—I mean we are all FREAKING OUT that we have a book coming out on Tuesday!!! But it’s been a really hard season too—details of which I can’t share now. It’s been a struggle to not let the heaviness of this season rob the joy.
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I’m sure you can relate—wanting to let yourself grieve things that need to be grieved and work through things that need working through. In the past I would’ve rushed through the grieving and the working to move on to what is good. I’ll be honest, I’ve further resented this whole season even more because of how it’s inevitably overshadowed such a sweet season.
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And this week the Lord showed me something—He has allowed this. This tension of grief and celebration was allowed by Him. He could’ve held it back... and there’s been many of times I wish He would’ve 🙄, but He didn’t.😩 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
This whole grieving situation has reminded me of a very valuable lesson, I hope the Lord continues to humble me with: It’s not about you.
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So right now I don’t care as much about what number on the list I’ll be this next week. All I care about is that this book gets into all the hands of women who want a better way and need someone to help them find it. Someone who walks through real life too and doesn’t have time to waste on meaningless things either... with the exception of @hallmark movies, #thisisus, and @instagram. 😍😉
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In the midst of the hard, @cjkiser, has lead us to celebrate. Last weekend we took the girls for a surprise staycation in our city (see pics). And then he surprised me with an overnight in our honeymoon suite. 😍
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My encouragement to anyone else who is walking through hard in the midst of the rest of life—find pockets to celebrate what’s good, let yourself feel the pain (don’t push past it), deal with what needs to be dealt with, and let God remind you of who He is in the midst of it.
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You are loved! Eyes up—notice how your Father is already at work around you. 😘

Pride. That’s what it came down to for me—too much pride to admit that I might need this little white pill.
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After all, isn’t Jesus enough? Don’t I believe that He can heal? Shouldn’t my faith in Him keep me from wanting to crawl in bed, avoiding all my To Dos and all my people, and binge @netflix all day? 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
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Pride told me to suck it up and try harder. Pray harder. Self-help harder.
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Pride told me to admit that depression might be something I will struggle with on and off my whole life, unless Jesus does heal me of it, would disqualify me from what I feel called to do. Lies that I should naturally have it all together,without a pill, if I’m going to lead other women to faithfully follow God and love others.
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The lie was that I needed to be the naturally skinny girl, although mentally speaking, who has never struggled with her weight because her body type simply isn’t that way, when, for whatever reason (insert all the 🙄) God has never given me that body—both literally and figuratively.
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My story has always been one of odds stacked against, where it was never meant to come easy but it was meant to make me strong. I’ve never been able to hide behind facades very easily.
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While my lies were loud, one thing was louder: my life was deeply affected by depression by someone I love dearly. The story isn’t all mine to share, so it’s not one I share often. But the devastation of that gave me the courage for one statement: “If prayer and self-help don’t seem to be making a difference, I’m getting help.”
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So on and off for years, I hold this pill in my hand and they pull me up.
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In honor of #nationalmentalhealth week, I wanted to share this. You aren’t alone. You don’t have to have it all together. Get help. Find a counselor. Tell friends. By all means do all the natural things. But sister, don’t fear the pill. Shame is not of your Father, fear has no place with Him.

Does it feel like fall where you are? Because y’all it is still in the 90s with a billion percent humidity and I’m so bitter. 😩😂
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That won’t keep me from all things pumpkin—we’ve decorated for fall (bc in the south you decorate with fake leaves to make it feel like fall 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️😂🍂), hit up the pumpkin patch, lighting all the pumpkin candles and using all the pumpkin soap. And my girls ask every single day for me to check the weather just in case a cool front came through while they slept. We are ready for booties, leggings and that cool breeze that just makes everyone a little more giddy. #whereareyoufall #allthingspumpkin #sacredholidays

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