As Christmas Day has past and we look back at the Advent season, my hope is that you prepared room for His dwelling with us, with you. Jesus’ ultimate desire is to bring us back to our Father, to bring us out of the despair of this world, into His redeeming love. Find hope in…
Tag: Hope
Waiting before God
Let all that I am wait quietly before God,for my hope is in him. // Psalm 62:5 NLT Ruth Chou Simons writes, “I’ve squandered too many days coddling expectations rather than waiting with expectancy. One leaves you tight fisted and anxious while the other rests with a posture of outstretched hands, ready to receive with…
Courage
“It takes a certain kind of courage to stand in the middle of devastation and not become cynical.” // Makoto Fujimura speaking about Bono and quoted from this article about Bono: Bono’s Punk-Rock Rebellion Was a Cry of Hopeful Lament | Christianity Today In a world that celebrates cynicism and feeds off contempt, what courage…
The weight of it all
I do not know what to say. I have not had the words to write. The weight of simply processing the tragedies, the loss, the hell on earth that has occurred over the last few weeks in our country, and the last couple of months in Ukraine, is unreal. I weep for the families who…
Hope matters
When you stop hoping you start settling. // Valorie Burton
Until that completeness
We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! But for right now,…
Consider // Made new
For here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to take you out of these countries, gather you from all over, and bring you back to your own land. I’ll pour pure water over you and scrub you clean. I’ll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I’ll remove the stone…
Whispers of Jesus
As we enter into the eve of Christmas, my prayer is that you are leaning in to the whispers of Jesus in each moment. Take in every aspect of these precious days, never forgetting to turn your ear to His tender, hope filled words. It’s obvious, of course, that he didn’t go to all this…
Happiness & joy
“The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can’t stand pain. Joy, on the other hand rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and…
A blessing
May His peace be yours in the midst ofthe busyness and difficulties life brings; May hope in Christ fill you with purpose; May His love be your motivation and comfort; And may His joy fill each cell in your bodyknowing He is working all things for your good.
Grief and happiness
For those who live with loss in their lives, grief and happiness often live together as two sides of one coin. Amidst the “best day ever”, the ping of sadness introduces itself in the most inopportune moments, stinging joy with depths of grief. “I think we just learn to live with the sadness that will…
Like Jesus
You are everlasting, and I will fade awayInto the glorious image of my risen Lord and KingFaced with my own blemish, deeply stained withinTurn into Your likeness, my empty life to fill To be like Jesus, this hope possesses meIn every thought and deed, this is my aim, my creedTo be like Jesus, this hope…
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