Category: Encouragement & Hope
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Free
Read more: FreeMy sweet puppy loves to dash out and greet us as soon as the door opens. The captivity is over, the bathroom holds her no longer, and whoosh, she is out like a shot to find everyone to greet and welcome and goose. It’s lovely. Insert rolling eyes. Her favorite time is “bringing in groceries”,…
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Working in this place
Read more: Working in this placebegin this day, admitting my need, I need him. I need to remember truth today. I need a mind shift. Today. He is my missing peace. I just want his peace today. So, let me show you where I’ve been today in the word.
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Humble take 2
Read more: Humble take 2I got a phone call today about money stuff. My normal routine is to get anxious and do a bit of a freak out beforehand and worry and stress and try and position things and work out how this will all be handled. Sound familiar? Then, I paused. We had been listening to worship music…
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Blessed be
Read more: Blessed beI don’t walk fast enough for my friend. She is waiting for me. ALWAYS. Hence this picture of anticipation, we are entering her favorite part of the walk and mine too. Come on, Mom. I love walking with her because of her pure joy. She enjoys her life. She enjoys walks, fetching the ball, naps,…
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The Anchor Holds
Read more: The Anchor HoldsThis picture expertly illustrates my life. I’m at one tip and I can see only what is right in front of me. I can’t see but the square in front of me. I get overwhelmed. There are all these damn bends and widening of the river and I can never tell what is coming. However,…
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Choose
Read more: ChooseSometimes, I forget. Sometimes, I wake up and life hits me hard. And I allow it. I allow the stress of life to overwhelm me instead of choosing. Choosing what my eyes and ears will consume first. I don’t seem to learn very quickly. I pay. Today I paid. It was small. It became no…
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Trees and bushes
Read more: Trees and bushesToday Friday. Open your eyes. This is your life, your thoughts, your decisions, your dreams, your moves. You may, today, make a good choice, and yet, on the other hand, you make a bad one. Or, a decision is made that is out of your control and you are forced to live with the ramifications or…
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Peace and thoughts
Read more: Peace and thoughtsPeace. I wonder if anyone in this wonderful world doesn’t long for it. World peace. National peace. Relational peace. Peace with God. Wherever we go, whenever we open news sources, we decry the absence of peace. We look for places to be peaceful. Think about it. For me personally, (nerd alert), beautiful libraries are peaceful…
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Heaviness of trust
Read more: Heaviness of trustGood morning, All my life I have been taken by these few verses. I cannot remember how I was introduced to them. I cannot remember why, as a small child, they were my favorite. Maybe it was this idea of mansions. Maybe it was that Jesus was talking. Maybe that it was the promise He…
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Thanks be to God
Read more: Thanks be to God1 Peter 1:3 ·Praise be to [L Blessed be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In God’s ·great[abundant] mercy he has caused us to be born ·again [anew; John 3:5–8] into a living hope, ·because Jesus Christ rose [or by means of the resurrection of Jesus Christ] from the dead. 4 ·Now we hope for [or This new birth provides us with] ·the blessings God has for his…
