Category: God
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Remembering you are the light…when you feel like death
A deovtional for when you forget to remember that you, even bad days you, are the light.
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A 2020 Advent Devotional…For the rest of us
If you’re wondering about where God is, or if He takes burnt offernings of bitterness, then this is the devotion for you.
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Glimmer
It’s still heavy, this week. But also, there’s a small hope, isn’t there?
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Friday feels
…on a Saturday, I know, I know! But it was Good Friday, and I was feeling a lot of things (as I imagine lots of us do this time of year) and well, just sharing. Do with it what you will. And yes, Good Friday. And I’ve got some beef…
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Bookended by grief
O Lord, how long? I wonder silently, busying myself in the kitchen so perhaps it’s not so noticeable to my family, that I am really worrying way too much lately. “Mom?” The littlest says, “Why are you quiet?” I’m a quiet person by nature, but at home–he’s right: it’s an…
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On purpose
Some days I wonder my purpose, my reason for being here. (Not those dark thoughts; I’m talking about those other thoughts I take out for a spin on the constant merry-go-round of my mind.) I find it mostly happens mostly when I’m doing something menial like dishes or laundry and…
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Brave day
Yesterday, a solemn day. We remember, those of us old enough to experience it and those of us young enough to sense the enormity of it from our family’s and friends emotional, brow-knitted retellings. It was a day you wondered where God was. I had wondered many times that day and…
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The Church
Recently, a friend of mine in a writer’s group invited us to share our thoughts and opinions about the church with her, as she wanted to do a series of essays of different views about the church. Views about the church as a whole; what the church gets right, gets wrong…
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Airplane Ride
Author’s note: I’m trying my hardest to consistently post on my site. Which is a lot harder than I thought, being home now. Which means that today, with little time to actually write, I’m posting something from the archive. Which you’ve probably never seen. Since it’s in the archive of…