If you like this message and think it could help someone, please share it. Thanks! I had a season of life not long ago when anxiety ruled my days and haunted my nights. This painful period provoked questions about God: why is He letting me suffer? Why doesn’t He feel close? What does it feel […]
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Two words sure to kill contentment: “I deserve.” A furtive shadow cast on the floor alerted me. I whipped around just in time to catch my son running off with an apple. And not to eat it, either, that I knew. The fruit bowl was empty, so he’d been at this a while. I tore
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When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. Psalm 56:4 ESV This short devotional was the result of a writing challenge in my Christian writers’ group. We were asked to write a 500-word devotional – then cut it down to 350 words! I discovered I could actually write something short and like it.
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Hi! If this post inspires you, would you consider sharing it on Pinterest or Facebook? Thanks! Let my prayer be set before You as incense, The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. Psalm 141:2 NKJV A boy, head down, muscles taut, legs spotted with bruises, pulling a red wagon through the yard.
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Psalm 1 1 Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night. 3 He shall be
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Hi, you made it! Since you survived the super-long part 1 devotional on Psalm 1, you might as well tough it out and read part 2, below. Didn’t catch part 1? Read it here. In part 1, we learned about avoiding trouble by 1. Being careful who we allow to influence us, and ensuring that
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1 John 3:18 “My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.” How many of us are living lies, and don’t know it? Too many stay-at-home moms – and women who want to stay home – get trapped by misinformation about the stay-at-home lifestyle. Dreams and
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I love self-help books. When relationships are going off the rails, then you’ll find me at the library digging through the 742 stacks (that’s Dewey Decimal system for the self-help relationship books). If you were hiding behind my couch, spying on me as I pored over the pages, you’d see me nodding and “ah”-ing and
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Have you ever sat around the table for hours after dinner, talking about everything and nothing, laughing together as the minutes speed by? When people peeled away to go to bed, slipped off to wash dishes, or shuffled to cars, their hearts were singing. Fulfilled, content, and joyful. This was community at its best. At
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I thought life was a dance, but I was just twirling on thin ice. People thought I was a strong Christian, and I agreed. Appearances can be deceiving, can’t they? The evidence pointed toward a woman who had it together: A woman who planned a mission trip to Ghana with her mom, taught Sunday School,
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