What a difference a thousand miles can make for one’s perspective. The calm, pristine and balmy ocean waters stretched endlessly into the horizon. A stark contrast to the frigid, snow-blanketed mountains we recently traveled from.
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Jonny Diaz gets us. He knows the human struggle with rest and presence. In the opening of his song, Breathe, Jonny paints a frenetic picture of a rushed morning and feeling behind before the day
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Have you ever received a gift that at the time seemed inconsequential, perhaps even childish, only later to realize the impact of what you’ve been given? To realize you’ve been given a gift of love?
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Thoughts. They take up space in our minds. Subconsciously on auto play. Thoughts can be consuming, all-encompassing, even prophetic, if we allow them to be. They are seeds, and given proper nourishment they can lead
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This week would have been my mom’s seventy-ninth birthday. It’s been fourteen years since Lewy Body Dementia stole the life from her, and her from us. Lately, I’ve been thinking about my own life, often
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Conflict is shaping our world. It’s something we can’t escape, and too often our lives feel out of control because of it. Conflict shows up in our families, friendships, workplaces, and even in our churches.
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you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. – Psalm 139:13-14
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Have you ever felt like your brain was so drained from a lack of stillness that you found yourself struggling to think, let alone speak? My wake-up call came this week, when I found myself
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So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Cor. 4:18 (NIV). Have you ever left
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The tears came hard. Tears of sadness, but also of an overwhelming joy. Bittersweet tears. I tried to focus my sleepy, squinted eyes on what I had dared not hope to see. As I gazed
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