Breathe in deep today. Let it come right through your lungs down to your toes, slow and easy and back out again. We get to be still in this gospel truth today: God the Creator created us in His image so that we might create reflections of Him to remind each other of His goodness. Beauty, love, art, kindness, wisdom-…
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? Really? Seems like suffering just hangs around these days, doesn’t it? We’re living in wild times. Angry people, tired people, scared people and all the people really just trying their best to do their best. Aren’t we all really just trying our best? Trying to navigate this pandemic life as best we can…
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…so sometimes, God, we just don’t have the words. Sometimes we just have a soul that groans with unnamed sorrows. Wordless, unspeakable sorrows pushing their way to the surface like an ache that can’t be ignored. They wrestle their way around to being named, to being heard, to being part of a story we can tell- but the force of…
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The thing is, we’re all venturing out now, learning the new rules. Unsure which lane to swim in now that the pool looks so different. My husband and I went out to dinner the other night for the first time since mid-March (a little strange how the phrase mid-March means the same thing to all of us now, isn’t it?)….
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Sometimes we really need things hammered into our brains, don’t we? In Psalm 136, the phrase “His steadfast love endures forever” occurs 26 times. It’s repeated every other line in every single verse. Repetition beating like a thundering drum tapping out a message of stability, hope, and assurance. Forceful and tangible, it’s a phrase to grab hold of. The Psalm…
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