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As I sit here reflecting on a new year coming, I have to be honest. I'm getting a version of the \"Sunday Scaries.\" You know... those anxieties that come when thinking about the next week ahead? But make this \"anxieties t...

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Your world doesn't just stop when you lose someone, or something.

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You know the feeling. When anxiety, fear, and sadness creep in, piling up one on top of the other? The sound seems deafening, the taste bitter, the consequences... well, sometimes so unmanageable you don't want to face i...

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Words can’t express the weight of your affection,

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I've tasted this world.

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Preeminence. What a word. I honestly had to look it up to know exactly what it meant.

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(Hope: Part I)

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He meets you in the ordinary.

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Part II: In Starbucks.

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Part I: In the car.

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What would the sparrow say?

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Faithful You have been and faithful You will be.

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A poem.

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What makes us think that He can't? That He won't?

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Yes.

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When I want to make it go faster, Lord, slow me down.

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That’s what this photo is. Or that's what it feels like.

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In the wilderness. Exhausted by the heat. Weary from lack of water and overwhelmed by the emptiness, the quiet, the being in the middle of nowhere with nothing in sight.

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In doubt or anxiety...

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Did you know when He looks at you

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Even in the quiet, in the stillness, “nothing” is not happening. Don’t we know the Lord? In the 400 years after the prophets went silent between the Old and New Testaments, “nothing” wasn’t happening. In the time between...

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The energetic, incredibly loving, sweetest yellow lab runs across the yard full sprint after something (who knows what) after finishing a vigorous session of rolling in the grass a few feet in front of me. I watch as he ...

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Lord, You are the God of perfect timing. You are THE God of hope. A God who gives good gifts, who loves His children deeply (-we are His children!!), and does not hold out on them or fail to provide. Never have You ever,...

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I sit and watch a young family and some friends walk into the park across the street. The dad throws their toddler a football as his son clumsily tries to catch it. An older gentleman circles the track with headphones in...

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Thinking of a title to summarize the words below, I looked at them and thought, ”if I were to take this and sing these words in Hebrew - like in the language King David originally wrote the Psalms in, what words would I ...

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A prayer.

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The Windows-provided lock screen that appears as I log onto my laptop shows a lighthouse overlooking a vast sea to its left. There's several quotes and tidbits of information advertising new tech and helpful tips about t...

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I stare at my hand-lettered render of the word “shalem” in the margin of my Bible. I always see it when I read this passage in Ruth, especially verses 12 and 13, which is where we see it in the Scripture. It makes me thi...

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God doesn't call me to initiate. He doesn't call me to take a next step, guessing where that is. He leads me there. He doesn't say \"I'm giving you four days. Come up with the goal or dream, draw me out a strategy of how ...

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