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Awaken My Soul

Posted in Journey, Longing, Love, Mystery, Prayer, Restoration, Salvation, Wonder, tagged , , , , , on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m ready, God, so ready,
ready from head to toe.
Ready to sing,
ready to raise a God-song:
“Wake up, soul! Wake, lute!
Wake up, you sleepyhead sun!”
-Psalm 108:1-2, The Message
“I will awaken the dawn.”
- Psalm 108:2, NASB
I am this morning journaling my soul awake. This is my song; my pen my bow, the empty page my instrument. [...]

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Dealing with Death

Posted in Expression, Healing, Jesus, Longing, Restoration, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Many of my favorite authors say that they write what they need to read. Philip Yancey is especially fond of talking of his writing as a wandering journey of faith, where he is wrestling with and trying to hammer out his understanding of some aspect of life. He deals with grace and disappointment [...]

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A Daring Reach

Posted in Counsel, Invitation, Jesus, Jesus' Pursuit, Longing, Restoration on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
-John 20:27
In moments of duress we respond with either “fight or flight.”  How many times have we heard that adage?  It’s become so commonplace, we often take for granted that [...]

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An Enemy Among Us

Posted in Battle, Home, Identity, Jesus, Journey, Longing, Salvation, tagged , on February 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I realize lately that when I write, I am consistently harping on the reality of busyness and its role in our lives.  This blog is as much journal as anything, a locale I come to occasionally to offer what’s on my heart and mind, and this topic is apparently a consistently weighty one for me.
In [...]

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The God Who Speaks

Posted in Conversational Intimacy, Discipleship, Invitation, Jesus, Journey, Longing, Love, Prayer, Remembering, Scripture, Story, tagged , , , , on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I had a conversation with a friend of mine about the ways that God has been speaking to her lately. She said that she used to hear people talk about “God told me this” or “God told me that” and she always wondered, “How do you know that God said that?” or “How [...]

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The Waiter and the Wanter

Posted in Expression, Longing, Poetry on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Tonight I wait, like a silent, ghostly stalker,
for the presence I have known before.
He comes. 
I am quiet and eager, hoping. 
My eyes are wide, ears alert and attuned. 
My soul is aroused
here in the darkness where I wait.
I wait like a Savannah killer waits for his prey,
ready to pounce and shred and tear
with all claws and teeth. 
Steely, [...]

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How Near is the Kingdom?

Posted in Discipleship, Glory, Home, Longing, Repentance, Wonder on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

How much is God on our side?  How much can we trust Him, I mean, to be our comforter and provider?  I often think of it as our being on His side, not He on ours (He is, after all, God!), but when it comes to mercy, we need Him to come to us.  But [...]

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