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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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Wishing You a Year of Witnessing God’s Work of Renewal and Restoration

January 7, 2013
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| Categories: Yielding and Waiting

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Why do we think in years in terms of starting fresh?

Why do we wait…sometimes…to start anew?

I ask this question without having an answer.  I’m just finding that I’d prefer to live in a way that thinks of each new day as a fresh start…as fresh as a new year.

Lamentations 3:22-23 “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”

But as humans we mark time don’t we?

We are nourished when we to look back on a segment of…

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Life Under the Big Top

October 24, 2012
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| Categories: Joy

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

Two rows behind the one ring soon to be filled with tigers, elephants, camels and a woman swinging high on a trapeze.

Our anticipation was rewarded.

Eyes enlarged.  Unable to take in all.  In awe.

Truly…death-defying acts performed before us.  Stunts done without mats.  Angry tigers.  Kids delighted.  I cringed.  Unsure if we should’ve been watching.  I was waiting for the worst.

Performers risked life and limb…

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