Lord, I’ve so much to accomplish today. My impulse is to push past our moments together and advance Your mission. Yet, you choose Your disciples,…
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Thanks, in All Things?
“Give thanks in all circumstances” (1 Thess. 5:19). Lord, we are grateful in times of abundance and pleasant surprise. But “all circumstances,” in everything? Draw…
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Read the Bible Slowly
“Read quietly, slowly, word for word. . . more with the heart than the mind… From time to time make short pauses to allow these…
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Enjoy the Silence
“Your tolerance of silence is a fairly good indicator of your spiritual depth” [“Contact with God,” Anthony de Mello]. This statement is true and convicting. …
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God’s Grace Has Found You
Your sinning-self squirms and struggles against being found out. Yet, God placed a deep longing in your true self, a desire for Him. When you…
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Make Your Name Holy
Lord, protect me and use me in the face of testing and temptation, changes and chances, discouragement and despair. Guided by your light and defended…
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God’s Work of Art
My granddaughter is a 7-year-old artist. I watch the intensity on her face as she draws her lines, selects the colors, and applies the finishing…
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No Way to Bypass Pain
Announce to the brokenhearted: Pain is not forever. Hope and healing will find you. Trust, and don’t rush. There is no detour around the work…
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Only Children
“My way is all of trust and love… It is enough to realize one’s nothingness, and give ourselves wholly, like a child, into the arms…
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To Be Radical
To hold on to what is essential, to get to the “root” is the meaning of “radical.” To cleave to the essential root, no matter…
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