Category: Blog posts
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Words…The Word
The Word of God is complex and comprehensive. We call it the Bible. The Truth. And Jesus is the Word made flesh. He is the author of the Word and the living image of the Word. The Word is a Person. It is God’s revelation to us, revealed and yet…
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Inventory…
It’s hard to look at ourselves through the lens of truth. We avoid the pain associated with real self-examination. And yet it cannot be avoided. The only way out is through it and we must enter this space in order to be healed. We do not go it alone. He…
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The ANDS of God
He is sovereign AND I have a free will. The ANDs of God. Two truths that co-exist simultaneously with an infinite gap of mystery in between. I accept that I don’t understand how they work together. AND I can learn to accept the mystery and trust its Creator and His purpose in it. AND…
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Expectations
I begin to learn that I can come out, come to Him, surrender. I find rest. I sit in who I am becoming in His presence – His child, His bride, His friend. I sit in who He is becoming to me – my Savior, my Rescuer, my Father, my Husband, my Friend,…
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The spin…the rest
Trauma and its associated pain and suffering can create a spin cycle inside of me. It’s that frantic excitability that puts me on a rat wheel…spin and spin…incessant. The underlying anxiety and racing thoughts are debilitating. To escape, I have developed coping mechanisms in an attempt to survive, control, manage, and numb. These can…
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He woos, I choose…
We are complex. On one hand, we can experience God moving deeply in our lives through a growing intimate relationship. And at the same time in our flesh, fallen nature, and fallen world, we are fractured. Pain and suffering remains and reminds us that it is not as it should be. We are…
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Questions and The Answer
How can a good, loving God who is in control allow such deep pain and suffering? This can be one of our deepest heartfelt questions. And we can bring it to Him and wrestle with Him for answers. As we wrestle to rest in His presence, we find other questions and distractions that…
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Wrestling to rest
We have made progress on our journey. Yet, it is inevitable that the flooding, questions, and desire to understand comes. Our deepest self made in His image is learning to come to Him…but we can’t reconcile the old and the new…and there are parts within us that are in conflict…and we wrestle…
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Come to Me
Come to Me and I will give you rest… For some this sounds like water for a thirsty soul. For others, it triggers the flooding. Desperate desiring, coming out, separating, and surrendering leads us to the Rock. We get to let go of the old which kept us in the pain cycle…
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Coming out
It’s hard to come out and separate from all we have known. We are complex human beings and learning to come out, surrender, and trust a new way can create anxiety. But we are learning to accept and lean in to the hope of a new vision. The old and its triggers…
Beauty • Joy • Vision 