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the daughter Jesus healed: coming to the end of herself
As I shared in my first post, this is “from the archives”, so to speak. I’d love for you to have the whole picture of what I’m writing about, so if you haven’t already read the introduction, you should...
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the daughter Jesus healed: taking God at his Word
I’m just going to hop right back into the passage, starting with verse 27. If you need a refresher, grab a Bible and find Mark 5 or (wonder of wonders) click here. VS27-29 – “after hearing about...
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the daughter Jesus healed: going into peace
So, picking up where we left off last time… VS30-32 – “Immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, ‘Who touched my...
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the daughter Jesus healed: we are the daughters
Originally, this story appealed to me because we’d just walked through our first miscarriage, losing the twins. Not knowing then that we would lose two more children and even suffer adoption loss...
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when you’re disappointed with God
I wrote back in January on “really good times to praise God” and I think this is exactly one of them. When you’re disappointed with Him. Because if we are real about things, we can confess that there...
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still & small
Last year I knew well into January that my word for the year was simple, straightforward, all-encompassing: Jesus. I knew I wanted to hear Him and know Him and be drawn up into the fulness of Christ...
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the well
Last week I relapsed after being under the weather already for a full week. On the night I finally started to feel like myself again, my brain went into hyperdrive and I lay awake until midnight. I...
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the stream
So I kept thinking about this idea of drinking deeply from the living water and all the reasons I do not – we do not. All the reasons we keep going back to our own little wells and hoping to drink...
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a few good reads
I thought it might be nice to share something lighter (mostly) than all of my OH MY GOSH, I JUST HAVE TO ENDURE LIFE RIGHT NOW posts. Because while that is true, it is also true that there are days...
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communion story
“[Some mortals] say of some temporal suffering, “No future bliss can make up for it,” not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.” – C.S. Lewis,...
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rejoice & take courage
This week I picked up a new book – Roots & Sky, by Christie Purifoy. It is like a deep breath in this seemingly never-ending winter. In the last few weeks, I have confronted the idea that part of...
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enduring and enduring
In the spring, I can toy with my northern friends, sending them pictures of us splashing at the lake and taking long walks, while they wait for their yards to defrost and deslush. In the fall, my...
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a prayer and confession over morning coffee
To the Godhead, present and perfect and infinitely knowing, be Thou my close comfort today. I enter my days wrestling; morning comes and my mind is vulnerable to thoughts of impulsivity, of...
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not i, but christ | taking a larger view of Christ in me, the hope of glory
At the beginning of the month, I had the lovely privilege of teaching at my church’s monthly women’s gathering. I hemmed and hawed (in my own brain) for awhile before accepting this invitation…and then...
View Articleon chronic uncertainty and the pursuit of God
I. For over two years now I have been listening to Andrew Peterson’s “The Burning Edge of Dawn” album. To me it is the sound of autumn and longing and hope. When it released in 2015, I was filled with...
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hopes for spring
My words have been so weighty lately – maybe the winter, maybe the sickness that never ends, maybe the time to ruminate. It’s very much needed, given that writing helps me to work out my salvation...
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