Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade. — Rudyard Kipling The last two weeks I can hear my garden whispering, “Come out, come out, it’s time…” The earth is starting to warm and I am famished to feel it between my fingers. All the fruit trees are full…
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. —Randy Pausch I once believed that. And that belief led me straight into a vacuum of hopelessness and despair; a desert place of fatalism and prayerlessness. I mean, why should you pray if you believe all your options and outcomes are based…
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“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.” ― C.S. Lewis “You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of…
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“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” ― Helen Keller You can find joy in some of the most unexpected places…. If you choose to. I used to think of joy as something that was only available if my life looked a certain way. If I was living in the…
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If God is your partner make your plans big. — D. L. Moody Dreaming BIG has always been challenging for me. Truth be told, I have always longed for smaller things. By that I mean that I hungered for “a normal life” whatever that is. I wanted peaceful and quiet and to be as far…
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…These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. Revelation 14:4 NKJV Following Jesus Christ is an adventure that is full of surprises. Some of them are WONDERFUL! Some of them seem less so. But one thing this relationship is not… It is never boring! Mrs. Cowman in her devotional Streams In The Desert…
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There’s nothing more transfiguring than prayer. People often ask, “Why do you insist on prayer so much?” The answer is very simple—because Jesus did. —Leonard Ravenhill Today you are invited to some bodacious believing! This earth is beginning to experience “only the first” of it’s birth pangs. If you believe this, then you will get a…
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. — R. Buckminster Fuller Jesus said, “If you love only those who love you, what good is that? Even scoundrels do that much.” Matthew 5:46 It is not easy to love the broken. It’s messy. You will probably have to get your hands very…
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I love the authenticity of Jesus. I love the way he cuts through pretense and goes straight to the heart of any issue. What amazes me—is how effortlessly He does it! Man I wish I could do that; see right through all the hype and get right to the real. I have learned that knowing…
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CONFIDENT HOPE: The Psalms Source: Waiting With A Hope-FULL Heart
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