I remember a day when worship happened instinctively. The sky was bright with the setting sun. As the sun bounced it’s rays on the clouds the sky turned gold, then pink, then purple. I stopped watering my begonias for a minute and worshiped. I have…
Spiritual Disciplines
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Soul Spa
Do you need a place to rest your heart? We all live busy, stressful lives. Our souls feel like they are being pulled in a hundred different directions. We are desperately soul-tired, but not sure how to find the rest our spirits need. When our…
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Side Effects of…Praising God
My husband has been diagnosed with lymphoma and has begun the road to recovery. Recently he had his first round of chemotherapy. The effects of the drugs were amazing. Just three short days after competing the infusion of drugs, we saw a major reduction in…
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Finding Focus — in Lent
I’m on a quest to find more focus in my life. To zero in on the important and to ignore the rest. To help me in this quest I am going to observe the holy Lenten season. Lent is the period of forty days…
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Entertaining Strangers
We may balk at entertaining, but Christ calls on us to practice hospitality. When I was in high school, a Christian group called Joy, Inc. came to sing at our church. Our family agreed to house a couple of group members for the night. And…
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Three Simple Things to Help You Find Joy in God’s Presence
The only reliable source of joy is in God’s presence. But how can we find that? A little experiment with three common objects helped me focus on God’s presence and find more joy. Lighted candle. Silver cross. Smartphone. What do these three items have in…
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Do You Want to Be Alone? Using Silence to Hear God’s Voice
Solitude and silence are elusive commodities. But sometimes we need silence to hear God’s voice. When I was a young mom, the thing I craved more than anything was to be alone. An introvert at heart, I draw energy from time by myself with a…
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How to Repair Your Soul
My daughter and her family live in China. They have been studying the difficult Mandarin language for almost three years and are quite fluent now. Which amazes me because when we visit them I am astounded at how anyone could learn such a beautiful, yet…