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Know You Best

“I just need to trust more.” It’s a strange statement most believers have found themselves saying. As if there is anything “just” about trusting anyone even God. Trusting is like dancing – moving hoping the other will match your pace. Making yourself vulnerable expecting the other to catch you. Testing more advanced moves with apprehension Continue reading
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When Hope Groans

“But I can’t see Him,” she groaned. My heart immediately ached in echo of the lament: we do not have our Savior physically with us to comfort and reassure us of His lavish love. These sort of thoughts often leave me with a kind of loneliness that feels a lot like homesickness. But this time, Continue reading
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Safe

“Keep me safe,” he said as he cuddled deeper into the blankets next to me. His chubby two year old hand rested on mine. Sometimes loving him means washing his blue sippy cups, giving him space to make mistakes, and showing him again how to be kind to his sister. And sometimes loving him means Continue reading
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Good Intentions

“As we try to believe what is not meant to be understood will You help us to trust Your intentions for us are still good. ‘Cause You laid down Your life and You suffered like I never could” ⁃ Always Good, Andrew Peterson I think doubting his father’s intentions was why the prodigal son in Continue reading
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The Space Between

I think we need to have a little imagination to have faith. Because faith in the gospel is embracing that there is hope. And hope is something we can’t fully see but rest and find joy in anyway. “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 Continue reading