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Walking forward after any type of trauma will bring challenges, while we are faced with the daily grind of recovery and healing.
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(Updated March 27)
From Isaiah 55:3: “Incline your ear, and come to Me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant.”
Hear this, all who thirst
Come to these still waters
Blessed with Father’s grace
Every son and daughter
Hear this, leave darkness
Only this light to seek
Return to Father
Step beyond earthly creek
Hear this, feast awaits
Steadfast love to behold
Cling to Father’s Word
Leave wilderness, be bold
Hear this, come to Me
Lasting peace to embrace
Love in Father’s heart
Salvation’s truthful place
Hear this, Savior lives
Walk no longer in fear
Trust in Father’s plan
Heaven’s path becomes clear
From 1 Corinthians 10:13: “No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing He will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.”
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When we accept the Lord’s love, we shall humble ourselves to surrender and obey.
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(Updated March 26)
There is no sin too great for God’s grace. There is no habit too big for His healing. There is no label too strong for His love.
From Ephesians 2:8: “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.”
Craig Groeschel (born 1967) is an America pastor and Christian author.
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For any poet, the interaction of light with color opens up another page of imagination.
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(Updated March 25)
From James 5:11: “Indeed we call blessed those who showed endurance. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
Totally unexpected, overwhelming
Lingering cracks appearing along life’s road
Tripping, stumbling, and finally crashing down
Shattering confidence, from life’s heavy load
Floundering, drowning . . . caught in river’s rapids
Endlessly swimming, lost at pool’s deepest end
Feet never finding firm ground, dour fear arrives
Replacing life’s daylight with night at each bend
Life’s turbulence teaches us lasting patience
With the Lord, with ourselves, and with life’s curve balls
Fumbling life’s slippery game ball once again
God’s love sends patience after every fall
Endurance of Job, life’s journey shall require
Living with patience, frees us from each briar
From Galatians 5:22-25: “By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.”
Originally published October, 2020.
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God’s nourishing spirit will feed our faith’s need for patience and perseverance.
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(Updated March 24)
Nothing lasts forever–not even your troubles.
From 2 Corinthians 4:17-18: “For our slight, momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure, because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen, for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.”
Arnold H. Glasow (1905-1998) was an American author and humorist. He was a regular contributor to the humor sections found in Reader’s Digest.
From Acts 5:29: “But Peter and the apostles answered, ‘We must obey God rather than any human authority.'”
Energized through God’s Word
Timeless blessings of grace
Called to journey in faith
Savior’s peace to embrace
Enter body of Christ
Spirit shall never rest
From sunrise to sunrise
Faith overcomes each test
Faithful obedience
Accepting divine will
Glory to God above
Mercy flowing downhill
Faith trusts with confidence
Tomorrow shall brighten
Christ walks ahead of thee
Life’s burdens, He lightens
God’s gift of repentance
Kneel at Calvary’s tree
Forgiveness from above
Savior’s blood sets us free
From Romans 6:4: “Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.”
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Light carries forward the faith-nourishing grace, which Christ unselfishly brings to us through His Resurrection.
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(Updated March 23)
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