As a wife, daughter, sister, friend, aunt, and fellow human being I cannot afford to be careless with my own words. Lately, I have been keenly aware of how words really do produce either life or death (Proverbs 18:21). This truth must raise us to a higher standard. We must learn to use few but […]
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This journey of cultivating a heart at rest has been one of the most challenging, yet freeing adventures I have ever been on. Trying to discover what this rest Jesus promises looks like in everyday life has brought such freedom. Letting go of my plans and receiving His grace, looking for ways to bring rest
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I’ve woken many mornings to the weight of disappointment, and a cloud of expectations on me for that day. At thirty-years old, with 3 children under the age of six, one freshly adopted infant with a major heart defect and a husband who worked long hours, I was sure I was in way over my
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She needed a break from the mundane. Her night in shining armor knew this. He planned a quick weekend trip to the mountains, without the children, to find rest. The first morning they laced up their shoes and set out to hike the area. Down into the woods, they could hear the sound of music.
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And if you give even a cup of cold water to one of the least of my followers, you will surely be rewarded. Matthew 10:42 It was late in the evening and I was exhausted from the stress of the day, I really just wanted to get in bed and read a good book. Except
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By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; by his knowledge the deeps were divided, and the clouds drop the dew. Proverbs 3:19-20 A heap of laundry a waits in the mudroom, along with the unmade beds and piles of paperwork that need my attention. There are
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“Ruth the Moabitess asked Naomi, “Will you let me go into the fields and gather fallen grain behind someone who allows me to?” Ruth 2:2 No blinking lights. Not even a neon sign that said, “This is the way, walk in it.” It happened without fireworks on an ordinary day over coffee. “Next week I
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Naomi said, “My daughter, wait until you find out how things go, for he won’t rest unless he resolves this today” Ruth 3:18. Wait. Wait has become a dreaded word in our culture. No one wants to wait. Certainly not for long. If ever there was a reality of we live in a fast food
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Jesus once told a story: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him up, and fled, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down that road. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. In the
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“No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you” John 15:15. It had been a long few weeks filled with sickness, a difficult pre-teen, after
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