• Word by Word

    Proverbs 3:3 NIrV Don’t let love and truth ever leave you.  Tie them around your neck.  Write them on the tablet of your heart.  “Man, everything else comes with instructions, I sure wish there was an instruction manual on how to raise kids. I sure wish I had an instruction manual on how to survive

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  • Tiny Details

    Matthew 6:8-15 NIrV Your Father knows what you need even before you ask him.  “This is how you should pray.  “ ‘Our Father in heaven,  may your name be honored.   May your kingdom come.  May what you want to happen be done  on earth as it is done in heaven.   Give us today our daily bread. 

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  • Meeting Grief Face To Face

    Revelation 21:4  He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. Grieving is a place. I have spent a lot of time hanging out there, like an ill person spends time in

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  • All Things

                                  Often when someone calls and is facing a crisis, (many times that’s me in the mirror) and my first response is to think of how we can “fix” “it”. What can instantly be done to help, intercede or provide guidance

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  • I Am A Sheep of Your Pasture

    I took this picture in Spain while driving from Antequera to Malaga. It took my breath away. Pulling over, rolling my window down – my breath stilled, my heart overwhelmed. Many of the sheep in the pasture had bells around their necks – there were probably a thousand sheep . . . . . .

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  • Just Because

    It is real. We need to quit feeling like we are failures. We need to quit feeling unloved. Our God loves us so much, He put a piece of himself deep in the center of us when He created us. Now that’s love. Lean into Him. That’s where the peace comes from. That’s where we

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