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Overcoming Overwhelm: Practicing Passive & Active Patience, Week 8 of 8

March 3, 2019
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| Categories: Coaching Yourself, Encouragement, Thinking, Trusting God, Worry, Yielding and Waiting

Gardening is a form of suffering. Not for everyone who does it, but it is for me! My dad peruses seed catalogs like I used to peruse the Christmas toy catalogs as a child. I, on the other hand, feel a bit anxious at the sight of them in the mailbox. What will I plant? When will I plant? Where will I plant? Will I really follow through all summer long with the weeding that must be done? Those decisions are small in comparison to the long drawn out process of…

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If You Long to See God Work

July 25, 2013
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| Categories: Encouragement, Spiritual Growth

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Did that title resonate with you?  Does your heart long…even ache…to see and understand God’s work in your life?  Those who are in Christ, I believe, naturally desire that.

I’m on vacation this week so…giving you an old story from the past year.  It is a timeless reminder of our need to expect to see God’s work in our lives and to be amazed by it through a visit to the big top.

We made our way to the big top…expecting excitement.

Two rows behind the one ring soon to be filled with…

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Waiting It Out In A Rain of Grace

January 9, 2013
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| Categories: Yielding and Waiting

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She jumps into the car beaming to be going to her friend’s house for the first time in a month.  Red dress and purple leggings bursting with cuteness.  I…looking forward to much needed one on one time on the riverfront with the boy.  Reading books and waiting for trains.  A promise he had looked forward to all day.

We plan.  We hurry.  We get there. I turn the handle of the door.  She looks down. A tear. Pout.  A lament. A whine.

I steam underneath.

Plans shattered. Boy shattered. Friend shattered.

I want to…

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Be Strong, Take Heart, Wait

November 7, 2012
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| Categories: Rest

“Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD” (Psalm 27:14).

It is a paradox isn’t it?

Christianity and so many truths within it. 

A king comes to serve.

You are wise if you follow this paradoxical king…even if others aren’t doing the same. 

He sometimes calls you to unique and strange paths…that seem more like a maze than life.

You lose your life and you find it.  Just like Him…laying down His life for…life.

You’re strong when you wait and take heart.

How self-control and yielding to Him…truly not…

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Greater than Me

October 31, 2012
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| Categories: Joy

The Ferris Wheel at Navy Pier, downtown Chicago was big and overwhelming. I felt relieved when I saw that it was closed down for the day because of wind.  I thought that was funny…things close down due to wind in the windy city?  Ruthie, my three year old daughter, was not happy.  Inside I was relieved to know that I didn’t have to go up there and pretend to be brave like I’ve had to do all week. 

I used to go to big cities for work. Drive in them….

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