Category: Cara thoughts…
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To be with you…
Read more: To be with you…Good morning beloved, Today I felt a blanket of sadness and overwhelmedness (yes, it’s a word in Cara’s dictionary..) cover me from head to food. I woke up with grief about relationships and worry for the year ahead of homeschooling. I longed to download with my husband..ran out of time. I watched my children begin…
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Repetition, repetition, repetition
Read more: Repetition, repetition, repetitionGood morning, beloved, Growing up in church, we would sing praise choruses. Not just hymns, this was the seventies and early eighties, people! I can still remember being the one who put on new slides overhead projector. What would drive me nuts was the repetition of certain parts of the song. So I would be…
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Need freedom?
Read more: Need freedom?Good morning, beloved of God, This morning as my computer warmed up, my third was lamenting about his many mosquito bites. He was pointing to every place the mosquitos attacked. He was so tired. He was frustrated. And then a friend called, and my son transformed. He sat up. He began talking excitedly about his…
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My house…open for business
Read more: My house…open for businessGood morning, beloved, Some of my very best lessons in life are found in children. Just saying. Having four of my own, I can go from pride to really? did you just say/do that? We’ve had a guest this past week and I’ve been interested to see how my children respond to her, care and…
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Love like a river
Read more: Love like a riverGood morning, beloved, Your love is like a river… 37 On the last and ·most important [L greatest] day of the feast Jesus stood up and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. [C The feast of Shelters/Tabernacles featured a water pouring ritual that may stand in the background of Jesus’ speech.] 38 If anyone…
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Good morning, beloved, Sunday, the Lord”s day, a day of rest, a day of peace, or supposedly such, we forget what God‘s original design. We forget He designed us to work for six days and on the seventh, we rest. I am grateful, grateful for God’s design. It is flawless, it is beautiful and to…
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Fill
Read more: FillGod, my heart is ·steady [steadfast; ready]. I will sing and ·praise [play a psalm for] you ·with all my being [L as will my soul/or glory]. 2 Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn. 3 Lord, I will ·praise [thank] you among the ·nations [peoples]; I will sing ·songs of praise [psalms] about you to all the nations. 4 Your great ·love [loyalty] ·reaches to [is greater…
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Time
Read more: TimeAnd everything You hold in Your hand Still You make time for me I can’t understand Praise You God of Earth and sky How beautiful is Your unfailing love Unfailing love (Chris Tomlin, Unfailing Love) Higher than the mountains that I face Stronger than the power of the grave Constant through the trial and the…
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Worship. Worship. Worship!
Read more: Worship. Worship. Worship!Good morning, beloved! How’s that for a statement? Exclamation point! Ha! Take that stress! I wake up in the knowledge that I am loved by Creator God who makes such stunning displays of beauty. He reigns. I remember when this song came out, my kids would belt this song out and one day I asked…
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How great a debtor!
Read more: How great a debtor!Good morning, beloved, Ever notice how when life is quiet, peaceful, everyone is healthy, money in the bank, how easy it is to come to rely on this? Slowly but surely we can remove our trust in God and put our trust in these very temporal circumstances. The picture of this tree is such good…
