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Weather Report: October’s Burnt Offerings
So October comes, there on the calendar but mostly in the trees, light in the sky, copper up from the ground, the roots, the limbs, now on the wind, and son brings in the mask summer now wears, the...
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Falling for God: 7 Ways to do Crazy Love
… humble thanks to Bloom Book Club for the invite to guest blog for the bookclub gathering for chapter six of Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God: “When you fall in Love” — this quiet community...
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Because of the Running God
In late November when the deer run and a singular goose cries lonely, flies south, the tongues, they pause in the pleas they know well, the please prayers, and heads they bow to pray the thanks...
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A Year in Pictures
‘T he ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.” Thomas Moore Irish poet (1779 – 1852) “For I know the plans I have for you,”...
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When you’re feeling lost & just want to find Christmas & Real LIFE again
I walk out of a Christian women’s conference and step oblivious right over a cross. I’m a woman rock hard and blind, a woman who forgets her own face, oblivious to the appalling miracle of rain that...
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how to really live a life
My Mama, when she crossed that milestone birthday, that one that surprised her in the mirror with wrinkles and white when she was still feeling all the smoothness of a girl on the under side, she...
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How Emptiness Can Sing
I come home with the stomach knotted and the hands clenched. Is anger but a tender wound bound so tight it howls all ugly? For days, after early hours of barn chores, then breakfast, we’ve packed the...
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And so together we take a long walk…
“Something of God…flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water….” ~ C.S. Lewis in ‘Scraps’, St. James’ Magazine “For since the creation of the world...
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how to build your house to stand
God doesn’t need us to praise Him but He needs us to praise. What else keeps us from bitterness? Down by the water’s edge, the boys build a sand castle. Caleb wields his shovel like a man with a back...
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weekends are for awake my soul
‘So that’s my answer to time. Time is a relentless river. It rages on, a respecter of no one. And this, this is the only way to slow time: When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the...
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When you’re feeling lost & just want to find Christmas & Real LIFE again
I walk out of a Christian women’s conference and step oblivious right over a cross. I’m a woman rock hard and blind, a woman who forgets her own face, oblivious to the appalling miracle of rain that...
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how to really live a life
My Mama, when she crossed that milestone birthday, that one that surprised her in the mirror with wrinkles and white when she was still feeling all the smoothness of a girl on the under side, she...
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How Emptiness Can Sing
I come home with the stomach knotted and the hands clenched. Is anger but a tender wound bound so tight it howls all ugly? For days, after early hours of barn chores, then breakfast, we’ve packed the...
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And so together we take a long walk…
“Something of God…flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water….” ~ C.S. Lewis in ‘Scraps’, St. James’ Magazine “For since the creation of the world...
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how to build your house to stand
God doesn’t need us to praise Him but He needs us to praise. What else keeps us from bitterness? Down by the water’s edge, the boys build a sand castle. Caleb wields his shovel like a man with a back...
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weekends are for awake my soul
‘So that’s my answer to time. Time is a relentless river. It rages on, a respecter of no one. And this, this is the only way to slow time: When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the...
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How to refocus – right in the midst of everything
Ruth Chou Simons is an encourager and a friend who inspires me to live with intention every day. She began sharing her artwork on social media while searching for God’s grace laced throughout her...
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Don’t Read this. Unless You Want the Wild of Living by Faith (Or: One of the...
T he guy never balked once. And, I mean, he really could have, only about a couple thousand times. Turns out: When a man doesn’t falter in trusting a woman, it makes a woman fall harder. But that’s...
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Don’t Read this. Unless You Want the Wild of Living by Faith (Or: One of the...
T he guy never balked once. And, I mean, he really could have, only about a couple thousand times. Turns out: When a man doesn’t falter in trusting a woman, it makes a woman fall harder. But that’s...
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How to refocus – right in the midst of everything
Ruth Chou Simons is an encourager and a friend who inspires me to live with intention every day. She began sharing her artwork on social media while searching for God’s grace laced throughout her...
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