“I love my alarm clock.” Said no one ever. Rude, artificial awakenings have a way of making one cranky from go. Or maybe it’s just me? I count it as grace that somewhere along the way, God exchanged my ill-mannered, screaming alarm for the whisper of sunrise tiptoeing across the horizon. Elegantly singing a breathtaking chorus of amber and rose,…
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What If…
What if… What if time served us rather than us serving it? What if the church were a judgement-free zone? There’s nothing worth more That will ever come close What if poverty wasn’t? And humility was? No thing can compare You’re our Living Hope What if we lived as a people who believed in the power…
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Relentless Faithfulness
Creeeak, creeeak, back and forth the rusty swing-set moaned as we listened to his unusual words. He’d gotten a new job. He’d be around more. Things would be different. The crescent-moon stood witness, as a father spoke promise to his children in the faded backyard of yesteryear. I’m certain he meant well at the time. I believe his promise was…
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I Know My Redeemer Lives
Happy Easter, sweet friends. ~ blessed to link up today with: Carolina at Open-Mic Monday , Crystal at Intentional Tuesdays , Kelly at #RaRa Linkup , Darlene at Titus 2sday , Holly at Testimony Tuesday , Holley at Coffee for Your Heart , Jaime at Sitting Among Friends . Lyli at Thought-Provoking Thursday , Susan at Dance with Jesus ,…
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When Surrender Feels Like Free-Fall
Frantically my fingers wrap handful upon handful of hollow air. Powder-blue and milky white, swirling in a cotton-candy blur of sky. Spinning dizzy through the blur, feet over head and back again. Tumbling air rushing above and below and around. And—oh, sweet Jesus—I close my eyes and pray. Surrender. It can feel a lot like free-fall sometimes, can’t it? Oh,…
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Sweet Somethings
Welcome back, friends. Greetings from the Chasing Holiness Cafe’. Grab a cozy table in the corner, and enjoy these Sweet Somethings (calorie-free, of course), chosen just for you. May your soul find refreshment today as we begin this brand new month in 2016. 1. Remember those Discomfort Zones we talked about last month? Well, whata’ya know—Steve Harvey has a…
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