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Am I Remembering Grace and Truth Moment by Moment?

March 14, 2024
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| Categories: Coaching Yourself, Encouragement, Grace, Uncategorized

Not too long ago, I wrote a post about how my cat, Lovey, shows my family what abiding does and doesn’t look like.

Among Lovey’s many desirable cat qualities, He enjoys taking walks in the woods with me and my dog, Shadow. It’s difficult to make great progress when Lovey comes along for the walk. He can’t help but flop down and roll over on his back every ten feet or so for a belly rub. I can’t help but bend over to rub his plush, chubby belly. I noticed recently how…

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When You Dread the Week Ahead

April 1, 2017
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| Categories: Encouragement, Uncategorized

psalm 139_4I woke from a solid sleep, spring at my doorstep, and birds sweetly singing a morning lullaby to me. Yet the first words that came out of my mouth were, “I don’t want to have another…” I stopped myself before finishing the sentence but it was already out there. My husband asked what I was going to say. I decided to be honest and admitted that I was going to say the word “week”.

I don’t like that I was going to say that. I’m pretty embarrassed that it…

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Moving From “Yeah, But…” to “But Now”

August 30, 2014
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| Categories: Encouragement, Renewing the Mind

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I love this picture.  The dying stalks lifting up frail heads to seemingly worship.  The sun casting its transforming rays through and beautifying them.

Without the sun and with a different perspective, this picture would have turned out so much different.  It was actually taken at a cemetery.  The nearby tombstones were not caught but the light filtering through seeds was.  A reminder to me of hope beyond death and of perspective.

What a difference perspective makes.

What an impact our words have on our perspective.

“Yeah, but…”

These are words that are moving toward extinction…

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Beyond the Nativity, A Four Week Devotional on the Incarnation, Week 4: The Importance and Rewards, Day 2: The Mark of the Spirit of Truth

December 17, 2012
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| Categories: Beyond the Nativity: A 4 Week Devotional on the Incarnation

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Previtali, Andrea, Nativity, 1515-20

1 John 4:1-6

“4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in…

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The Truth Empowers…Joy

October 17, 2012
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| Categories: Joy

We’re still hanging on to the last days of warmth…

to golden sun…

and golden leaves falling out of the sky.

The earth…knowing it is in all of it’s glory…is throwing it’s beauty down like confetti…saying, “Look at me!  Celebrate the Lord’s incredible creativity!”

We attend each day like a parade…watching…picking up leaves like candy…marveling at their tranforming beauty.

Yesterday we meandered down a creek in the country in order to hold on…

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