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Picture Day
The world’s unfairness isn’t just a fleeting feeling, it’s a fact of life on this sin-cursed earth being magnified. There is real evil in the world, intended upon stealing, killing, and destroying us. Our enemy lies. When we feel we are surrounded by unfairness and evil, lies and manipulation …it’s because we are. It’s hard, and it can make us feel hopeless and helpless to stop it. Especially when our kids are hurting and there’s nothing we can do to make it right or ease the pain.
A Prayer for Those Going through Divorce at Christmas
Divorce doesn’t have to be the crushing end to all Christmas traditions. Hope does not have to fade as the picturesque view of a familiar life wanes. Christmas is the celebration of the hope Jesus brought into the world with His infant cries.
The Christmas Dolphins
Welcome to the #recall12 series, where we are memorizing a little bit of God’s great Word each month! This month’s verse is: “God will take care of the hidden things …” Deuteronomy 29:29 MSG “Mom!!!!” My seven-year-old screeched as she took off into the depths of the house, “I have the BEST idea for Christmas cookies this year!” The discomforting changes that we instinctively…
The Windows
Strength to live authentically comes from God, alone. King David’s encouragement is centered on the confidence source of our courage. Living our full truth out loud comes from bravely walking within our God-placed purpose. Comparing our lives to those around us, and the mold of societal acceptance, chokes our ability to live uninhibited. But life exposed to the Light sets us free.
The Strength to Be Joyful
The voice outside the door was pretty routine. I had tried to steal a moment away to go to the bathroom, and fooled myself into thinking that shutting the door would signal the little people in the house to allow me a moment of privacy. (Bah. Ha. Ha.) God’s sense of humor never ceases to amaze me, and the state in which He met me for this…
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