Behold the creation God made in His image.
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Opportunities abound. Each moment carries with it possibilities of inviting Him into the day.
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If you genuinely, sincerely receive it and it is sealed in you, nothing can separate it from you. Nothing.
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Returning to dedicated practice restores what had been lost.
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It doesn't take long to be bombarded with demands that try to pull your focus away from where it needs to be.
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Stay alert and keep your mind fixed on God.
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How do you unpack from that trip!?!
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Five years ago I was introduced to soap making. I fell in love with the scents and the science. Watching ingredients come together from solids to liquid and back to solid in just a matter of time and condition. I didn’t master it. I piddled. The desire lingers. Time doesn’t allow. Priorities take precedence. My mom crocheted. I taught myself by watching others. Small projects completed and an attempted big one unfinished. The creating with my hands only bringing minimal satisfaction because the perfectionist in me sees all the faults left from imperfect stitching. I didn’t master it. I piddled.…
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Ephesians 1:6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. God’s glory-grace given. Paul repeats the phrase “to the praise of the glory” or “to the praise of His glory” three times in Ephesians 1. Then continues two more times referring to God’s glory. Five references to glory in one chapter. Whose glory? God’s. Kept to Himself? No. In verse 6, grace bestowed on the writer and recipients of the letter. More specifically, in verse 2, “the saints who are at Ephesus and who are faithful in Christ Jesus.” In…
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So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. Ephesians 2:19-22 This passage is sitting and expanding in my mind and heart. Paul, writing to the church in Ephesus, the church living in the middle of…