The Sacred Story
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God Fights For You
Trouble can find us when we least expect it: a bill in the mail, a bad report from the doctor, a toddler meltdown, a traffic jam, an angry friend. In moments when our world swirls around us or our vision swims before us we have two options: to focus on the difficulty, or to focus…
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God Reveals The Way
There is a trail in Yosemite my family recently hiked for the first time. It was quite ambitious for a family with young children, but we hitched up our resolve and leaned into the hard climb. When our kids grew tired, we encouraged them. My husband eventually lifted our youngest onto his shoulders to carry…
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God Calls Us To Celebrate
What do you do when life pushes in from every side, when pressure and pain do their best to choke out perspective and for a moment you’re sure a little piece of sky just landed on your head? As I was reading through this week’s Life Journal readings in Deuteronomy, I discovered a remarkable gift God has given…
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God Adores You.
We were playing at the park one afternoon, throwing the ball and making new friends, when I looked around to check on my 5 year old daughter. She had been running about since we got there, gulping in the sweet fresh air of late winter as she ran and climbed and slid. There is just something about a wonderfully rainy…
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God Invites Us To Write His Name Upon Our Hearts
Shocked, dazed, heartbroken, questioning… These are some of the desperate feelings we experience when life goes flying off the tracks. Many years ago almost everything in my life seemed to crumble. Health, home, employment, church family: all were dearly shaken. My heart felt broken. Panic attacks began to grip me. The days were painful, and difficult. Very, very difficult.…
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Sacred Family Moments
It was a quiet night at home when Daddy disappeared into the backyard. A few moments later my two eldest boys found him out there splitting firewood, arranging it onto the fire pit. With excitement, they leaned in to break up sticks from last year’s summer garden, adding the kindling. The littles noticed through the window and squealed, racing around inside to grab the marshmallows, small…
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God Multiplies
I have these snappy little voices in my head that are my worst critics. Do you have those too? They whisper and they shout, “You are not enough”, “You don’t have what it takes.” And all too often I simply believe them. Truthfully, sometimes it’s just easier to. Because if I don’t measure up than I have every excuse to hang back, to play…
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God Hears
Sometimes praying can feel like standing on the shore of a great lake holding a very heavy rock. “Can I toss this heaviness in there?” we wonder. Looking out across the surface, painted with the reflection of the heavens above, we cast our stones of cares deep into it’s depths. These stones that hold our heart’s cries are so heavy in our hands. We…
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God Goes With You
Perhaps we were born to dream; to lift our eyes up to the painted clouds and imagine what could be. Sacred moments of stillness and wonder can stir something deep inside, calling us to reach up to the heavens where the seeds of God-sized promises are waiting. The Patriarchs of old discovered this long ago. Over the last week of Life…
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Jesus is The Beginning and the End
In the swirly midnight celebrations of New Year’s Eve one simple idea pierced through the confetti and settled into my thoughts: the beginning and the end are so close together. They’re just a heartbeat, a breath, a blink away from each other. Last night we waved goodbye to the end of 2015 and turned to welcome the beginning…
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