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Set Apart
I wrote the other day about surrender and submit.It was not an easy one to write… and if I’m honest, not an easy one to live either. I urge you to go back and read it. Because what I am about to share now… builds on that place. Surrender opens the hand.Submission keeps it open.…
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Surrender & Submit
Don’t scroll away on this one… this took me a few long days, a lot of thinking, and even more prayer to write. This one… this one hit me. Surrender and submission. Two movements… but one life fully yielded. I was sitting the other day, talking to a friend, and somewhere in that conversation I…
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Put the Flaps On
At the stables the other day I watched a horse being prepared for training. Before anything else happened, the trainer placed the flaps on the horse’s bridle. Those small pieces of leather beside the eyes. Blinkers. They are not there to punish the horse.They are there to focus him. Horses can see almost everything around…
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There Is No Such Place as Far Away
I have been thinking about the idea that there is no such place as far away. Not in a poetic, floaty way. In a very real way. Because anyone who has ever loved someone knows this: geography does not measure connection. You can sit next to someone on a couch and feel oceans apart. And…
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Hebrews 6
The kind of love that does not fight to stay. It fights to stay holy. Hebrews 6 is not soft Scripture. It is not written for beginners. It is written for those who have tasted the goodness of God, who have felt the weight of His presence, who know what the cross cost. It speaks…
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Mountain Movers
Today my six year old looked at me with those wide eyes and asked, “Momma, is it true? Can I really move a mountain if I have faith?” And I was sincerely thinking about how to answer him and not think like a pastor, or theologian. Or someone who has preached this verse… Jesus help…
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Another one from Jonah
My previous blog reads about Jonah! Jonah runs from God. Boards the wrong boat. Endangers innocent men. Sleeps through a storm he caused. And when the moment of truth comes, he does not say fix me. He says throw me overboard. That is not poetic surrender. That is the end. When Jonah tells them to…
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Throwing Jonah overboard
How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God. Not my thoughts about God. Not my feelings on a good day. His thoughts. Precious. Weighty. Worth protecting. Because here is what I have learned the hard way. A thought is never just a thought. A thought is a seed. A thought is a steering wheel.…
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The absence of Panic
People love to do things for God. Lists help. Tasks feel holy. Movement feels productive.And yet Jesus never once told us to try harder to look like Him. He told us to abide. Ephesians 2:10 says we were created in Christ Jesus to do good works, works God prepared in advance for us to walk…
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The power already at work
This is the 3rd blog on Ephesians 1:17-23, what an absolute blessing it was! If you haven’t read the other, find them! It’s beautifully taken apart and I believe revealed! Beloved, if Paul’s prayer has already undone our ideas of knowing God and belonging to Him, this next line should completely recalibrate how we understand…