It is my delight and honor to get to participate with Kate Motaung and the Five Minute Friday community for a five minute free write challenge. Our leader, Kate, sends out the prompt each Thursday evening at 10 PM. The rules are gentle and simple: Know the one word prompt. This week is {blessing}. Set … Continue reading Five Minute Friday: Blessing (is beauty from ashes)
And so with the limited vision of standing at the beginning of something new, I am determined to let go and follow Jesus wherever He leads. I feel the security of remembering His past faithfulness. And yet, I am fully aware of the ambivalence of knowing not the path nor the destination of His leading.
I grew weary of the wrestling and spinning and the voices and the questions and doubts. Honestly, I love that place of surrender! As difficult as it is for me to get there sometimes, it is the best feeling to drop all the baggage I've agreed to carry and crumple at the feet of Jesus.
In this week's Saturday Share I want to introduce my good friend and favorite doula (a person who assists in birthing), Jess Dudley. You will find her at findyourfood.org where Jess transparently shares her journey out of obesity and now willingly and graciously extends her hand of assistance to all who are ready to say YES to life, … Continue reading Saturday Share: Find Your Food with Jess Dudley
I'm sitting today, quietly reflecting on the magnitude of the last four days. There's joy in my heart, and a deep, satisfied soreness in my muscles and a tired feeling in my bones. It's the kind of tired soreness you feel with a great deal of satisfaction after you've experienced a victory in an arena … Continue reading Community: We want it, but how does it happen?
It's fascinating, isn't it, if we think about Abram as real man who lived with his father's household, had a wife and people working for him, who tended livestock for a living, and that one day God leaned into Abram's world with an assignment. Can you imagine?
If the opposite of humility is pride, then we have all the more reason to focus on humility by Kaitlin Miller
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