Tag: love

God Weaving the Threads of Our Lives into the Tapestry of His Purpose

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GRACE…

Grace will heal and restore. Grace will make us resilient. Grace is what the world needs now.

HOPE…

The season of Advent; preparing for the coming of Christ, Messiah-God in flesh,

PERSECUTION

Persecution… Curious, I thought I knew what the word meant.  I also thought I had never experienced it, but I was wrong. According to Dictionary.com it has been defined as a program or campaign to exterminate, drive away, or subjugate people based on their membership in a religious, ethnic, social, or racial group: Hmm, this…
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“God Shining Forth”

Today is the day of Epiphany. It is a really old celebration and yet, so many of us have no idea what it is or have heard it’s exact significance to the world. So what is it? The Epiphany commemorates the visit of the wise men or Magi to the Christ Child. Not to be…
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Advent: Awakening

Come Awake! Come Awake… “We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade The presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always hard to Penetrate. The real labor is to attend. In fact, to come awake. Still more, to remain awake”. (Letters to Malcom by…
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Becoming: An Eye Level View

At Trafalgar Square in the city of London stands a statue of Lord Nelson. Resting atop a tall pillar, it towers too high for passersby to distinguish his features. For this reason, about forty years ago a new statue – an exact replica of the original – was erected at eye level so that everyone…
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Becoming: Looking For God’s Peace

Today we light the Advent candle of peace. In honor of the day, God brought an early, morning visitor. While drinking coffee in front of a roaring fire, sleepily staring out our picture window at the misty mountain engulfed in clouds, a dove lit on the rail inside our porch terrace. A dove! He flew…
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Becoming: A Movement From Something to Something More

Having a heart of Advent means preparing for the Lord’s return. A big part of preparing for the second coming of Christ involves waiting. As His people, we must wait. In faith, we “wait for the Lord, and in His word we hope” (Psalms 130:5). Even when “God hides His face, we wait with hope”…
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Becoming: “Lazarus, Come Forth!”

Excerpts from my favorite prayer book… “We die; indeed we have to die in order to be resurrected, restored, [transformed], and renewed. We die and we die and we die in this life, not only physically-within seven years every cell in your body is renewed-but emotionally and spiritually as change seizes us by the scruff…
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Advent 2015: Love & Becoming

Today would have been my brothers’ 56th birthday… and I miss him. We were only 14 months apart. Where Mark went, I went. Where I went, Mark went. As Forest Gump would have said, “we were like peas and carrots”. My brother was not only brilliant, but Mark was such a fun-loving, energetic, and insightful…
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