To love someone long-term is to attend a in thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they’re too exhausted to be any longer. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when… Continue reading Learning to Let Go~Heidi Priebe
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When Everything Crumbles
JEN WISEOriginally Published in Bible Study Magazine Mar–Apr ‘13 Reflections on Jeremiah We spend our time building for the present. We stack bricks of time and energy into relationships, savings and careers. We believe our passion will serve as the mortar that will hold it all together. When it all comes crumbling down—when a spouse… Continue reading When Everything Crumbles
Paying Attention in 2023.
By Robert R. Ellis. As we hurtle into 2023 I’m thinking about one very precious commodity I have to spend this year: my attention — what I will pay attention to. Our idiom “pay attention” even implies the costly value of where and when I “pay out” my focus. Our culture understands the value of… Continue reading Paying Attention in 2023.
People Need a Chance to Change, Grow, and Become Better! -Anonymous Contributor.
I spent most of my January in Genesis and Exodus. This time around I noticed something in the story of Joseph that I had missed for many years. Joseph brothers. The betrayal of Joseph brothers is legendary. They caught their brother, tied him and sold him, after deciding not to kill him.Nearly everyone who hears… Continue reading People Need a Chance to Change, Grow, and Become Better! -Anonymous Contributor.
Have you have lost control?
(A reflection by Barbara Brown Taylor in her book – The Preaching Life). It takes a lot of courage to be a human being. I have been holding a new goddaughter this week, and she does not know that yet. Just seven weeks old, she has eyes the color of the ocean. Looking into them,… Continue reading Have you have lost control?
Nothing Can Separate Us From God’s Love
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8: 38-39. I miss my parents!… Continue reading Nothing Can Separate Us From God’s Love
“…For I am no Better than my Fathers!”
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!” 1 Kings 19:4 NKJV. I came across a university advertisement bragging… Continue reading “…For I am no Better than my Fathers!”
Forgetting the Things Behind and Pressing forward Ahead.
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. Philippians 3:13 NKJV. Today I bumped into a collection of my digitized photos. They reminded me that I have been to many different places in my… Continue reading Forgetting the Things Behind and Pressing forward Ahead.
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God.
“The heavens tell of the glory of God; And their expanse declares the work of His hands. Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard.” Psalms 19:1-3 Last week I was invited to attend Pan African Koinonia Meeting in Claremont, Georgia. It amazes how… Continue reading The Heavens Declare the Glory of God.
Hemmed in, Behind and Before.
“O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up, discern my thoughts from afar.You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, lay… Continue reading Hemmed in, Behind and Before.