Chasing Roots, Touching Sky
Perhaps I’ve had a daydream (or three) of someone coming by to make beds and vacuum floors—but this wasn’t exactly how I pictured it going down. Quite the country mile (on a muddy gravel road) from what we’d planned, but nonetheless… Suite 229 would be our address for a while. Housekeeping angels aside, those months of hotel life were anything…
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Everywhere I turn, I see it. Suffering. Pain. Sorrow. My compassion can barely stand itself. Have you noticed it too, friend? A tide of trouble beats against the shores of my heart, begging a prayer or two or ten. It sometimes feels like more than a heart was made to hold. We want life and health and peace for our…
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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 of prayer?…
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When we first moved from the deep-south to the mid-west, I devoted many-an-hour to my favorite new past-time: Watching fresh snow fall from the heavens. (A sky-show we Sunshine State girls dream of all our lives.) Rhythmic magic, drifting in peaceful purpose, as if called for calm by its Maker. And, it didn’t disappoint. Until that day in May, six…
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“Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep His promise. Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.” Hebrews 10:23-24 Hold tightly What comes to mind when you think of holding something tightly? A child’s hand in traffic? A $100 bill on…
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Ever feel like you’re living on a prayer? Like you’re listening to God, and feel certain you’re minding your yeses and noes and maybes… And yet… You wonder if you’re the right girl for the job, because you limp into bed each night with the weight of your people and your compassions and your sorrows settled like an elephant on…
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