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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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One Thing

Posted in Confession, Longing on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
-Paul
The suffering that Paul speaks of here is the gap created between desire and satisfaction. Paul was not a sated [...]

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