--- title: Wendy Gerdes | Life With God description: Life With God | Description --- [Skip to content](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/life-with-god#main-content) [![Asset 1](https://wendygerdes.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Asset%201.png?width=514&height=71&name=Asset%201.png "Asset 1")](https://wendygerdes.com) - [About](https://wendygerdes.com/about) - [Blog](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes) - [Subscribe](https://wendygerdes.com/subscribe) ## All Blogs Filter blogs by topic by clicking the buttons below - [All](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/all) - [Life With God](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/life-with-god) - [Spiritual Formation](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/spiritual-formation) - [Perspective](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/perspective) - [Freedom](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/freedom) - [Motherhood](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/motherhood) - [Forgiveness](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/forgiveness) - [Fear](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/fear) - [Parenting](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/parenting) - [Identity](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/identity) - [Overcoming Sin](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/overcoming-sin) - [Devotionals](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/devotionals) - [Grief](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/grief) - [Prayer](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/prayer) - [Relationships](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/relationships) - [Love](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/love) - [Advent](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/advent) - [Anxiety](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/anxiety) - [Allegories](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/allegories) - [Lent](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/lent) - [Hearing God's Voice](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/hearing-gods-voice) - [Disillusionment](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/disillusionment) - [Learning to Hear the Voice of God](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/learning-to-hear-the-voice-of-god) - [Poetry](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/poetry) - [Prayers](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/prayers) - [Spiritual Formation Illustrated Writings](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/spiritual-formation-illustrated-writings) [![](https://wendygerdes.com/hubfs/Canva%20images/Canva%20Design%20DAGdt7ftEGA.png)](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/the-things-we-hold) [Freedom](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/freedom) [Life With God](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/life-with-god) [Fear](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/fear) [Prayer](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/prayer) [Spiritual Formation](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/spiritual-formation) [Anxiety](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/anxiety) January 30, 2025 ### [The Things We Hold](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/the-things-we-hold) Aching shoulders, sleepless nights, consuming thoughts, preoccupied days: we all know the feeling of carrying burdens... 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The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd... [Read Blog](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/manager-god-or-caring-god) [![](https://wendygerdes.com/hubfs/Canva%20images/Canva%20Design%20DAGCs6ibj28.png)](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/safe-shores) [Freedom](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/freedom) [Perspective](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/perspective) [Life With God](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/tag/life-with-god) April 17, 2024 ### [Safe Shores](https://wendygerdes.com/wendy-gerdes/safe-shores) "Umm.. I'm not sure because I can't really see a lot." Standing on the beach in Turks and Caicos, my husband tried... 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