I will be packing my son up in two weeks, to head off to college in Tennessee. I had no idea until now, that my heart could explode with pride, and shatter with grief all at the same time, and yet here I am. To be honest, I’ve been trying not to even think about…
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“I wait [patiently] for the Lord, my soul [expectantly] waits, And in His word do I hope. Psalms 130:5 AMP How do you wait? Is it with an impatient and anxious spirt or is it with peace knowing that the Lord sees the whole picture and you can’t. The same God who spoke all things…
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I wearily walked back into the restaurant, my thoughts dark and my heart heavy. Suddenly, our server appeared with a note—a note with the exact words I needed at that very moment. It wasn’t a coincidence. It wasn’t just a random act of kindness. It was God speaking directly to me. “A woman…
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“What you think about when you think about God is the most important thing about you.” This is a quote from A.W Tozer. This quote recently stopped me in my tracks. What comes to your mind when you think about God? This is certainly a question worth pondering. I was adopted at a young…
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Society has a way of labeling and identifying us in a myriad of ways. Language, for instance, can identify a person’s nationality and dialect can isolate a particular region in which a person was likely raised. How, then, as believers in Jesus Christ are we to be identified? Are we Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran or Non-Denominational…
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Sometimes my world is sunny. Other times it’s quite rainy. This has been a rainy season. My heart has hurt. I lived through the Rodney King riots in L.A. I was in high school and remember watching the TV and thinking the world was collapsing. It was so scary to watch. I attended a racially…
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“I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too are to love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love and unselfish concern for one another.” John 13:34-35 (AMP) Love one another; that is what…
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All fear finds its roots in insecurity. Right now we feel the ground moving beneath us. We are acting out of a need to feel some control, like filling our homes with food and toilet paper. We crave security; it gives us a false sense of power. But no matter how hard we try to…
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A couple of weeks ago I participated in an online devotional that consisted of discussing what things we should reintroduce into our lives in preparation for when things go back to “normal”. During this time our busyness has slowed, there’s virtually no place to go, and nothing to do; but what has certainly increased for…
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Our lives used to be filled with lists of where “to go”, hurried and scattered and full of our schedules and everyone else’s to do’s. Today we are just filled with “to go” dinner’s. Our rat race has slowed, our calendars are cleared, so what are we to do when there seems nowhere to go?…
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