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03 March 2016
Theme Song Thursday
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12 November 2015
Theme Song Thursday
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15 October 2015
Bread for Today
In the natural, I made a loaf of THM Sprouted Wheat Bread, something I have not taken the time to do for months. The process was simple, yet fulfilling; the resulting loaf was delicious and nourishing -- truly a BLISS, which I need to pursue more regularly.
Supernatural bread for today started as a musing about how to love the broken in our world. Jesus' wise instruction to love others as I love myself reminded me that self love is the beginning of pouring the Father's heart upon others. Every one of us is broken and traumatized to some degree and in need of a Physician. Tenaciously pursuing wholeness and healing for myself truly must be a priority; our family's beloved first pediatrician continually exhorted me to take care of me/Mom, so that I could take care of our kiddos. The flight attendants remind us to put our own oxygen mask on before we try to help someone else. Yes, current culture understands this concept.
Why is it so difficult for Christ followers? One reason, I believe, is the stigma, the SHAME, that religious culture affixes to people "who don't have it altogether." The enemy loves this lie and works with religious culture to perpetrate it far and wide. The TRUTH is that we all are in need of the Physician -- that's why He came to save the WORLD. Shine the light on SHAME, dare greatly and run after personal wholeness and healing. You will be amazed at the good that will result.
When I mentioned "religious culture," I was not meaning the church, the Body of Christ. Nope. I was speaking of a mindset that is empowered supernaturally. At itmes this culture/mindset does show up in our local churches, though. Sadly church people will sometimes treat other church people worse than a stray dog, despite the model we see in how Jesus loved His disciples and those who followed Him. (You might want to read up on how He dealt with the religious culture of His day chronicled in the stories of most of His interactions with the Scribes and Pharisees, too.) Christ also said to love each other as He loved us. Unfortunately, the church is known as being the only army that shoots its own wounded. This should not be! Come alongside those in the Body of Christ who are pursuing wholeness and healing. They are part of the group of people that you and I are meant to love as we love ourselves.
The other part of that group are those who are not part of His Body. Guess what? The same instructions apply in regard to them. Love them as you love yourself. Because it's the kindness of God that leads people to Him, we are to be the conduits of His Kindness. Be famous for love, as Sherri Silk says. See people the way He sees them -- created in His image and likeness. Honor, respect and love everyone around you, brokenness and all.
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Supernatural bread for today started as a musing about how to love the broken in our world. Jesus' wise instruction to love others as I love myself reminded me that self love is the beginning of pouring the Father's heart upon others. Every one of us is broken and traumatized to some degree and in need of a Physician. Tenaciously pursuing wholeness and healing for myself truly must be a priority; our family's beloved first pediatrician continually exhorted me to take care of me/Mom, so that I could take care of our kiddos. The flight attendants remind us to put our own oxygen mask on before we try to help someone else. Yes, current culture understands this concept.
Why is it so difficult for Christ followers? One reason, I believe, is the stigma, the SHAME, that religious culture affixes to people "who don't have it altogether." The enemy loves this lie and works with religious culture to perpetrate it far and wide. The TRUTH is that we all are in need of the Physician -- that's why He came to save the WORLD. Shine the light on SHAME, dare greatly and run after personal wholeness and healing. You will be amazed at the good that will result.
When I mentioned "religious culture," I was not meaning the church, the Body of Christ. Nope. I was speaking of a mindset that is empowered supernaturally. At itmes this culture/mindset does show up in our local churches, though. Sadly church people will sometimes treat other church people worse than a stray dog, despite the model we see in how Jesus loved His disciples and those who followed Him. (You might want to read up on how He dealt with the religious culture of His day chronicled in the stories of most of His interactions with the Scribes and Pharisees, too.) Christ also said to love each other as He loved us. Unfortunately, the church is known as being the only army that shoots its own wounded. This should not be! Come alongside those in the Body of Christ who are pursuing wholeness and healing. They are part of the group of people that you and I are meant to love as we love ourselves.
The other part of that group are those who are not part of His Body. Guess what? The same instructions apply in regard to them. Love them as you love yourself. Because it's the kindness of God that leads people to Him, we are to be the conduits of His Kindness. Be famous for love, as Sherri Silk says. See people the way He sees them -- created in His image and likeness. Honor, respect and love everyone around you, brokenness and all.
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17 September 2015
Theme Song Thursday
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13 August 2015
Theme Song Thursday
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06 August 2015
Theme Song Thursday
Had a lovely coffee date with a dear friend yesterday, and we spoke of running like this. This is a re-posted song, but still a great favorite and timely.
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13 July 2015
Revive
June and July have been fabulously full of fun, learning opportunities.
After our adventure with Revive Northwest Indiana, my intention was to summarize that "summer school course."
You regular readers know that I have not chronicled our time in Lake County. As I dreaded might happen, the passing time since then has gathered many of my memories and stolen them away.
I absolutely LOVED going out into the community to pray with people. I absolutely LOVED listening to Holy Spirit's leading as to where to go and who to talk with. I absolutely LOVED being part of a team of people whom I had never met before and who, by the end of our morning or afternoon outing were like family to me. I absolutely LOVED the worship, the fellowship over meals, the prayer, the testimonies and the genuineness of Time to Revive's team.
So what lasting impact did it make upon me? I feel like I am much more bold to talk to people than ever before. I love the fact that I can now easily present the Gospel to someone using the tools (wristband and Bible), if that's where the person is on their journey to God. I was blessed and encouraged to see and to hear Holy Spirit respected, consulted, listened to and taught upon. Practicing hearing God's voice and then walking in faith according to what was heard is always a bonus as well.
Love. Listen. Discern. Respond. Four great steps for all of our interpersonal relationships!
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After our adventure with Revive Northwest Indiana, my intention was to summarize that "summer school course."
You regular readers know that I have not chronicled our time in Lake County. As I dreaded might happen, the passing time since then has gathered many of my memories and stolen them away.
I absolutely LOVED going out into the community to pray with people. I absolutely LOVED listening to Holy Spirit's leading as to where to go and who to talk with. I absolutely LOVED being part of a team of people whom I had never met before and who, by the end of our morning or afternoon outing were like family to me. I absolutely LOVED the worship, the fellowship over meals, the prayer, the testimonies and the genuineness of Time to Revive's team.
So what lasting impact did it make upon me? I feel like I am much more bold to talk to people than ever before. I love the fact that I can now easily present the Gospel to someone using the tools (wristband and Bible), if that's where the person is on their journey to God. I was blessed and encouraged to see and to hear Holy Spirit respected, consulted, listened to and taught upon. Practicing hearing God's voice and then walking in faith according to what was heard is always a bonus as well.
Love. Listen. Discern. Respond. Four great steps for all of our interpersonal relationships!
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11 June 2015
Theme Song Thursday
While this is a repeat, it is the theme song on my heart at this moment!
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28 April 2015
Planting a Faith Seed
It's a small seed, but it's mine.
Today's lesson so far is: take time to understand; pray (listen), think deeply and talk out loud to myself about it before talking to someone else in any format, written or spoken.
Some lessons recent:
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Today's lesson so far is: take time to understand; pray (listen), think deeply and talk out loud to myself about it before talking to someone else in any format, written or spoken.
Some lessons recent:
- say "yes" to God. All of your "yes"es add up to steps on your journey.
- listen and believe
- my negative feelings are often misguided
What lessons, insights are blooming inside of you today?
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10 April 2015
Theme Song Thursday on Friday:)
LOVE THIS!!! Soak and enjoy, friends.
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09 April 2015
Fingerprints and the Next Dot
How my heart celebrates recognizing Papa's fingerprints in my life! Sometimes when Papa shows up, His Presence impacts my body and my soul, generally feeling weighty and BIG. Other times He impacts my mind more subtly, like a fingerprint left behind.
Currently one of His fingerprints is "mustard seed." While pondering through Matthew, the passage in Chapter 13 captured my focus -- it leapt off the page and led me on a thoughtful journey with Holy Spirit. Though this passage compares the Kingdom to a mustard seed, what I remembered was my male friends at my childhood church receiving a mustard seed tie tack as a gift from our Reverend. He was a master storyteller and retold the parable (Matthew 17) about having a mustard seed of faith and being able to move mountains as part of his presentation of the gift. This truth captivated me, and of course, made me wish I could be given a mustard seed tie tack, too. To this day, I am incredibly encouraged by that parable. That same mustard seed of faith that propelled me to say "yes" to Jesus, can move mountains. He has already given me everything I need for life and Godliness.
Kris Vallotton taught the same basic message recently along with the exhortation and encouragement to believe you are who God says you are. Because I am also intentionally reminding myself of who God says I am, these two messages, fingerprints, are alive to me like never before. Doug Addison keeps prophesying that breakthrough is imminent. I want to position myself for breakthrough by wielding my mustard seed of faith and beliving that I am who God says I am!
God's fingerprints also call to mind those beloved dot-to-dot pictures. Doug Addison says that finding personal purpose and destiny are like a dot-to-dot picture. My job is to find the next dot; I cannot hurry to the end to see the final picture. Each one of His fingerprints is a next dot for me. Learning to recognize them, to fully see and learn from them, and to keep looking for the next dot, all at the very same time, is a challenge for me. Yet, nothing is impossible with God.
What fingerprints are you seeing in your life? What's the most recent dot? What are you doing to join God in those places?
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Currently one of His fingerprints is "mustard seed." While pondering through Matthew, the passage in Chapter 13 captured my focus -- it leapt off the page and led me on a thoughtful journey with Holy Spirit. Though this passage compares the Kingdom to a mustard seed, what I remembered was my male friends at my childhood church receiving a mustard seed tie tack as a gift from our Reverend. He was a master storyteller and retold the parable (Matthew 17) about having a mustard seed of faith and being able to move mountains as part of his presentation of the gift. This truth captivated me, and of course, made me wish I could be given a mustard seed tie tack, too. To this day, I am incredibly encouraged by that parable. That same mustard seed of faith that propelled me to say "yes" to Jesus, can move mountains. He has already given me everything I need for life and Godliness.
Kris Vallotton taught the same basic message recently along with the exhortation and encouragement to believe you are who God says you are. Because I am also intentionally reminding myself of who God says I am, these two messages, fingerprints, are alive to me like never before. Doug Addison keeps prophesying that breakthrough is imminent. I want to position myself for breakthrough by wielding my mustard seed of faith and beliving that I am who God says I am!
God's fingerprints also call to mind those beloved dot-to-dot pictures. Doug Addison says that finding personal purpose and destiny are like a dot-to-dot picture. My job is to find the next dot; I cannot hurry to the end to see the final picture. Each one of His fingerprints is a next dot for me. Learning to recognize them, to fully see and learn from them, and to keep looking for the next dot, all at the very same time, is a challenge for me. Yet, nothing is impossible with God.
What fingerprints are you seeing in your life? What's the most recent dot? What are you doing to join God in those places?
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19 March 2015
Theme Song Thursday
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19 February 2015
Theme Song Thursday
Ash Wednesday, yesterday, marked the beginning of Lent 2015. The first three days of this week have been incredibly life-sucking, emotionally painful and downright maddening. Whilst having a conversation with one of our dyp, (dear young people), I heard myself ask, "why would you keep doing the same thing over and over when the answers have all been wrong?"
Insightful question for me, also. I believe that's the very definition of insanity and something at which I scoff loudly in some others, (particularly the "religious"). Ok -- busted.
I have talked with Papa about it and feel like I see the first few dots on the new path. With His help, I will choose differently.
May your Lenten Season be one of delight in Him and finding new paths down which to chase Him!
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04 February 2015
Pondersketch
Being thankful and focusing on my life from a Kingdom perspective.
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27 November 2014
Right Writing
Most of my kiddos write as a hobby alongside of writing required for school; journaling, blogging, participating in NaNoWriMo, creative writing for fun and probably in other ways of which I am unaware -- they write and write and write. I admire them. They make me long to write more consistently. Generally I do journal every day in some form, which is a good thing. Then there's this forsaken blog. I also bought some books about writing to fuel my passion and have read some of the chapters, feeling excited and inspired while reading them -- then running out of time to immediately write from the inspiration of the reading. And then I sleep, and I forget.
23 October 2014
Theme Song Thursday
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16 October 2014
Theme Song Thursday
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09 October 2014
Theme Song Thursday
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02 October 2014
Theme Song Thursday
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25 September 2014
Theme Song Thursday
Singing this over and over as a declaration these days; need it to become proven knowledge.
What's your theme song lately?
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