“When I pray like this, I am reminded that I do not have to muster up hope and joy inside me but, instead, receive them from God with open hands.”
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“He is inviting you to allow Him to baptize your imagination and bring His resurrected life into areas of your mind that are dead in despair. He is offering you the gift of hope so you can imagine something new.”
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You and I were never created to fix and heal and mend and sort out everyone. We were never created to do anything in our own strength. We were created to be human, not God.
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“You can give a young Mom new eyes to see her child with. “
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“You are invited, for the next 24 days, to hold back your “Rejoice! Rejoice!” and wait, listen, be still, and allow his Holy Spirit to uncover your own longing for Jesus .“
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“Heavenly Father, thank you for dirty dishes. I am not always thankful for them but I want to be thankful.”
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“When I stop trying to BE God I can begin to SEE God and that is beautiful.”
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“It isn’t up to me to make myself love God more. It is up to me to trust Him at His word, to trust in His love for me. The human relationship with God is ALWAYS one of response. And God is teaching me another way. The way of trust. Trust and love go hand in hand.”
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“We live in a frenetic society that is high on content. We speedily scroll blogs and articles, pump out posts and tweets multiple times a day. I daily skim and scurry over words, many of which are just filler.
But poetry has no filler - every single word has been carefully chosen with significant intent. Every single word is important. And if every word matters, you have to read it slowly. “
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“Because sometimes it is so hard to be thankful when we are in the thick of the forest. When the difficulties press in around us and we can’t decipher God’s voice in this time. We remember because it helps us in the now, it reminds us that God was with us then and he is with us now. We might not have known it in the past either but we can look and see the marks of his presence, his help, and his comfort. And this, my friends, is where thankfulness can grow, even in difficult times.”
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“… patience is a precious gift from God forged in difficulty. It is the beauty God makes out of the brokenness of the world.”
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“His love is as fierce and great as his holiness. His covenant is as firm as what he did to establish it. Dilute him and neither his love nor his commitment to us is worth very much. “
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“As I sat there, on the mustard coloured couch, I realized that this quick onset of spring has exposed that I have been waiting for something. I have been waiting for spring in my inner world. I have been waiting for healing, renewal, change, for something more than my current medical routine and doctors appointments. “
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“Grace is an invitation forward into something else, something better.”
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“Jesus’ presence in the world is a light shining with such strength that the darkness cannot overtake it, the darkness cannot obtain it, the darkness can not even understand it. It cannot be extinguished because it is an everlasting light.”
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“My laundry space is the epitome of unnoticed spaces. It is situated in the unfinished part of our basement. The room is lit by one lightbulb on a pull string. The floor and walls are cement, there are exposed pipes and wires, and two small basement windows. Not quite like the Pinterest laundry rooms so large and bright you might invite your friends in for tea for all the counter space.”
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