Tag: encouragement
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Becoming with God
“And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6). I am near the end of my first career, my kids are growing up and leaving home, and I think I am just now figuring out who…
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Esther 4:14 Inspired
It can be hard to see our purpose, our beauty, our story in this big, demanding world. God’s words of truth and love are all-too-often drowned out by words of comparison, self-criticism, and doubt. Today my thoughts have been on you, the small, simple soul reading these words. I want you to know that you…
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When Life Feels Unsettled
Matthew 7:24-27: “And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.” I’ve been waking up feeling off-kilter lately. I find myself caught in a strange season. It is filled with emotional highs and lows,…
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Finding God’s Truth in the Turmoil
My small, simple soul has been dealing with a big, daunting issue. An emotional issue that has been making me feel all the wrong kinds of small. Instead of small and safe in my Father’s embrace, I feel small and vulnerable. Small and not enough. I’m sure you have faced your own big life…
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I Can Fix That!
1 Corinthians 1:19: For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” I am a fixer. If one of my sons needs to move, I’m online checking out apartments and local listings. If someone I love is facing a medical diagnosis, I’m looking…
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Are You Holding Back Your Dreams?
Psalm 62:8: Trust in him at all times, people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. I didn’t realize I was holding a piece of myself back from God. I had been harboring a desire, a fear, a longing that I felt simply wasn’t mine to claim. It felt…
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Falling Apart to Fall in Love
O God, You are my God, earnestly will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh faints for You, as in a dry and weary land where no water is. Psalm 63:1 For years I prayed for a deep, heart-felt, even desperate longing for God. I wanted to desire God above…
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Does Our Grief Matter?
You have kept count of my tossing, put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? Psalm 56:8 Have you shed silent tears this week? Or perhaps your grief was messy and loud—a full on “ugly-cry.” Or maybe your grief has been too deep for tears, but rather has been a hidden,…
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Are Your Words Sweet To the Soul?
Proverbs 16:24: Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. This week I was the recipient of gracious words. And friends, they were indeed sweet to my soul. I was feeling tired and busy and just a tiny bit invisible. But a beautiful woman sat with me,…
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God is Bigger Than My Overwhelm
“The heavens were made by the word of the Lord, and all the stars, by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the water of the sea into a heap; he puts the depths into storehouses. Let the whole earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. …