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On Assignment

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Sometimes, I forget I am on assignment.

I forget that it’s not about me.  I know the curriculum.  I’ve read the objectives.  I am called to be a missionary.  I am a mouthpiece for the Redeemer.

But, I forget that sometimes.

I forget on Friday afternoons when the bills have to be paid, and the check book is low.  I forget when I watch the six o’clock news, and my stomach turns.  I forget when I am in the endlessly long line at Walmart.

I think Salvation is about me, but it’s not.

Salvation is about Him.  It’s of the Lord.  And the Lord loves.  He loves the serial killer, and the uncooperative insurance agent.  He loves the gang member, and the terrorist on the plane.

He loves.  He loves uncooperative, apathetic me.

I am on assignment.  He came to save us all. 

Lord, help me to run in the right direction singing salvation songs.

 

I am joining like-minded sisters at She Reads Truth and sharing  a reflection on Jonah, Chapters 1 and 2 today.

 

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Sleepwalking (Thought-Provoking Thursday)

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My co-worker is in the last stages of pregnancy, and she is weary.  It’s gotten harder for her to sleep, and her defenses are down.  This past week, she picked up a virus of some sort, and she was unable to come in to work for a few days.

Today as we sat at the kitchen counter at lunchtime, we were chatting about how she was feeling, we agreed that it’s not easy to “rise and shine” when you’ve had a restless night.  Lack of sleep transforms me into a cranky zombie.

Somehow, the conversation turned to the subject of irregular sleep patterns, and another co-worker shared that her little boy likes to sleep walk.  Just then, my boss breezed into the kitchen to mix some health nut liquid concoction she drinks down as a lunch.  A therapist, she usually has something alarming to share about psychosis when we are talking about any subject, and today she did not disappoint.  She proceeded to tell a shocking story about a man who was stabbed in his sleep by a murderous relative, and then proceeded unawares to sleepwalk down to the kitchen to make coffee.  The wounded man walked on in a catatonic state rather than tending to his wounds and seeking the help that he so desperately required.

Ugh, I groaned.  That story is horrifying.

Tonight, I sat down to read and came across a passage in I Thessalonians that took me back to that lunch counter conversation:

But friends, you’re not in the dark,

so how could you be taken off guard by any of this?

You’re sons of Light, daughters of Day.

We live under wide open skies

and know where we stand.

So let’s not sleepwalk through life like those others.

Let’s keep our eyes open and be smart…

Since we’re creatures of Day, let’s act like it.

Walk out into the daylight sober,

dressed up in faith, love, and the hope of salvation.

I Thessalonians 5:4-8, MSG

Do you ever feel like your sleepwalking through life?  You get up and do the same thing every day — make the bed, brush your teeth, go to work, pay the bills.  You are on autopilot.  Then, the enemy creeps in and stabs you right there in a tender, unguarded spot.

I read up a little on sleepwalking tonight, and you know what I learned? It’s more common in childhood and is often attributed to delay in maturation.

Interesting, right?

Walk into the daylight and put your armor on, sleepy head. 

Something to think about…

 

I am sharing “Sleepwalking” and joining like-minded sisters at  Spiritual Sundays, Recommendation Saturday, Faith-Filled Friday, Essential Fridays, Thriving Thursday, and Quitting Thursday.

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Confessions of a Book Addict (and Procrastinator) — Read in 2013

 

Confessions:

1.  On my to do list since October 2012:  “Write a post on what you are currently reading.”  (Epic procrastination failure here!)

2.  I have run out of bookshelf space for all the books I’ve recently purchased.  I had a ton of books (mostly half read) in book bags on the closet floor.  Today, I bought a couple of storage crates for them and sorted them into 2 categories:  Started and Not Started

3.  I need to stop trolling Facebook because friends are posting pictures of books they are reading, and this just makes me want to buy more books. (Other women buy shoes; I buy books.)

Here is a quick wrap up of what I read in 2013:
Boundaries:  When to Say Yes – How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life

The Rundown: Henry Cloud and John Townsend summarize the premise of their book on page 27: “Just as homeowners set physical property lines around their land, we need to set mental, physical, emotional and spiritual boundaries for our lives to help us distinguish what is our responsibility and what isn’t.”
Memorable Quotes“Withdrawal from our boundaries and hostility toward our boundaries are the ground from which trauma springs” (p. 83).  “Rescuing someone is not loving them” (p. 232).
Biggest Takeaway:  Chapter 13 was titled “Boundaries with God.”  Just as we fail to set up healthy boundaries with others, sometimes we put up unhealthy barriers in our relationship with God.

Margin:  Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives

The Rundown:  Richard Swenson succinctly states the premise of his book on page 65: “If we don’t move to establish effective priorities, overloading will continue to fill up our schedules and keep us captive.  We must learn the art of setting limits.  We must learn to accept the finality and nonnegotiability of the twenty-four-hour day.  We must learn not to overdraw our account of emotional energy.  And we must learn to respect such limits in others.”
Memorable Quotes: “Stress is not the circumstance, it is our response to the circumstance” (p. 44).  “Margin can be restored.  Broken relationships can be healed.  It takes work.  It takes love.  It might even take going to the cross.  But healing is worth it” (p. 214).
Biggest Takeaway:  Chapter 14 was titled “Health through Rest.”  Here Swensen explains that a healthy life has 4 gears just like an automobile — park, low, drive, and overdrive.  Our problem is we don’t know how to shift gears from driving to resting.  Swensen argues that we need 3 types of rest:  physical, emotional, and spiritual.  We need leisure time.  We require solo time, and we must remember and worship God during our Sabbath.    We must surrender to His rest.

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash a Revolution in Your Life in Christ

The Rundown:  Peter Scazzero explains the main point of His book on page 60:  “The point is simple: there are powerful spiritual breakthroughs that can take place deep below the surface of our iceberg when the riches of both contemplative spirituality and emotional health are joined together… Together they form a furnace where God’s love burns away what is false and unreal an where the force of His fierce and purifying love sets us free to live in the truth of Jesus.”
Memorable Quotes:  “The vast majority of us go to our graves without knowing who we are.  We unconsciously live someone else’s life, or at least some else’s expectations for us.  This does violence to ourselves, our relationship with god, and ultimately to others” (p. 66).  “True spirituality frees us to live joyfully in the present”  (p. 93).  “Bad habits are like living roots that return.  These roots must be dug away and cleared from the garden of our soul…This requires the direct intervention of God” (p. 121).
Biggest Takeaway:  Chapter 8 was titled “Discover the Rhythms of the Daily Office and Sabbath.”  Here Scazzero encourages us to develop a daily rhythm with God by setting aside time for prayer at several times during the day.  He also encourages his reader to set aside time to “delight” in God through Sabbath.  Both of these practices are part of what Scazerro describes as the “Rule of Life” in Chapter 10.  He closes the book by outlining the spiritual practices that one must develop in order to have an emotionally healthy spirituality.

One Thousand Gifts:  A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

The Rundown:  Ann Voskamp’s theme is that “Deep chara joy is found only at the table of the euCHARisteo–the table of thanksgiving” (pp. 32-33).
Memorable Quotes:  “Hurry always empties a soul”  (p. 67).  “Eucharisteo always, always precedes the miracle” (p. 72).  “The real problem of life is never a lack of time.  The real problem of life–in my life–is lack of thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks–take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks–and He miraculously makes it more than enough” (p.72).
Biggest Takeaways:  I am to be a “hunter of beauty” (p. 71).  “The hard discipline is to number our griefs as grace…” (p. 100). “Those who limp know how to see” (p. 140).  “Joy is a flame that glimmers only in the palm of the open and humble hand” (p.177).

Prayer:  Finding the Heart’s True Home

The Rundown:  Richard Foster describes the three “movements” of prayer – moving inward toward transformation, moving upward toward intimacy, and moving outward toward ministry.   Prayer is a defined as “an ongoing and growing love relationship with God the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit” (p. 13).  Through prayer, we “come home.”
Memorable Quotes:  At times our prayer may be reduced to a single word: ‘Mercy!’” (p. 43).  On the “Prayer of Relinquishment”:  “…learn the prayer of resurrection.  ‘Lord,’ you may pray, ‘bring back to life what will please you and advance your kingdom.  Let it come in whatever form you desire.  Let it be in your time and your way.  Thank you, Lord, for resurrection.’  Some things will remain dead–it is better for you that they do.  Others will burst forth into new life in such a way that you will hardly recognize them” (p. 56).  On

Formation Prayer”:  “None of us will keep up a life of prayer unless we are prepared to change.  We will either give it up or turn it into a little system that maintains a form of godliness but denies the power of it–which is the same thing as giving it up” (p. 57).
Biggest Takeaway: In discussing “Contemplative Prayer,”  Foster suggests asking yourself “questions of examination.”  I now write these into the front page of every new journal and refer to them often when I need a “heart check”:  “Am I becoming less afraid of being known and owned by God?”  “Is prayer developing in me as a welcome discipline?” “Is it becoming easier for me to receive constructive criticism?” “Am I learning to move beyond personal offense and freely forgive those who have wronged me?”

Anything:  The Prayer that Unlocked my God and My Soul

The Rundown:  One night, Jennie Allen and her husband abandoned themselves to God and prayed a simple prayer: “God, we will do anything.”
Memorable Quotes: “Every sin, at its root, is based in something we do not fully believe about God” (p. 5).  “…we seize more of God when he seizes us through our broken dreams” (p. 61).   “We give our lives to him and he gives our lives away” (p. 176).
Biggest Takeaway:   God wants all of me.  Jennie explains this well:  “If we pray anything, we will all, like Christ, be called to give up this life and things we love.  We will be called to risk for his glory.  Christ never intended those who walked with him to feel comfortable and safe.  This was meant to be a risk-it-all pursuit..  The glory of God will be made great on this earth, but what a privilege to be part of his plan to restore it” (p. 136).

Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes

The Rundown: In her introduction, Shauna Niequist shares an insight about the “table” that captures the beauty of her book:  “What’s becoming clearer and clearer to me is that the most sacred moments, the ones in which I feel God’s presence the most profoundly, when I feel the goodness of the world most arrestingly, take place at the table” (p. 13).  Toward the end of the book, she explains: “Whenever you offer peace instead of division, when you offer faith instead of fear, when you offer someone a place at your table instead of keeping them out because they’re different or messy or wrong somehow, you represent the heart of Christ” (p. 250).
Memorable Quotes:“The heart of hospitality is about creating space for someone to feel seen and heard and loved.  It’s about declaring your table a safe zone, a place of warmth and nourishment” (p. 114).  “We don’t learn to love each other well in easy moments.  Anyone is good company at a cocktail party.  But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you” (p. 132).
Biggest Takeaway:  One phrase that stuck with me after reading this book was to be “present over perfect” (p. 167).  Niequist challenged me to open my home and heart with her words:  “…you can decide that every time you open your door, it’s an act of love, not performance or competition or striving.  You can decide that every time people are around your table, your goal is nourishment, not neurotic proving.  You can decide” (p. 195).

What Happens When Women Say Yes to God: Experiencing Life in Extraordinary Waye

The Rundown:  Lysa TerKeurst states her thesis on page 16:  “Being a woman who says yes to God means making the choice to trust Him even when you can’t understand why He requires some of the things He does.  It also means that once you’ve said yes to God, you refuse to turn back, even when things get hard.”
Memorable Quotes: “Each day when I wake up I pray a very simple prayer even before my feet hit the floor.  God, I want to see You.  God, I want to hear You.  god, I want to know You.  God, I want to follow hard after You.  And even before I know what I will face today, I say yes to You” (p. 14).  “Saying yes to God is more about being than doing.  It is choosing who I will worship and then depending on God to give me the strength to follow through” (p. 86).  “When you are committed to radical obedience, you see everyone through God’s eyes of love” (p. 146).
Biggest Takeaway:  I must trust God with my yesterday, my today, and my tomorrow.

Wonderstruck: Awaken to the Nearness of God

The Rundown: Margaret Feinberg suggests that “Faith invites us into an enchanting journey–one marked by mysteries of divine beauty, holy courage, irrepressible hope, unending love” (p. 7).
Memorable Quotes:  “Many of us say we want to experience God, but we don’t look for his majesty.  We travel life’s paths with our heads down, focused on the next step with our careers or families or retirement plans.  But we don’t really expect god to show up with divine wonder” (pp. 26-27).  “I came to see rest as a divine invitation to make the physical, emotional, and spiritual confession that God is Lord of all.  If I affirm that God holds everything together, then I am free to establish a sustainable rhythm as I entrust everything and everyone to God.  When I enter into God’s rest, I crawl into bed knowing the world lounges safely in his hands” (p. 64).  “Words are a gift through which we keep the past alive, the present bearable, the future hopeful” (p. 121).
Biggest Takeaway:  Feinberg’s final chapter made a connection that spoke to me deeply:  “… when we live life awake to the wonder of God around us, we find reason to give thanks even in the wake of wreckage and discover God at the end of the runway” (p. 154).

Prayer Warrior: The Power of Praying Your Way to Victory

The Rundown: Stormie Omartian defines a prayer warrior as a person who “has a heart of compassion for suffering people and bad situations, and desires to do something to make a difference” (p.16).   She believes “if we join together in prayer, we can break down every barrier to the unity God has called us all to and become the powerful prayer warriors He wants us to be” (p. 24).
Memorable Quotes:  “The better you know your Commander, and the more you look to Him for your strength, power, and guidance, the better a warrior your will be” (p. 27).  “When you speak the Word of God in the face of every attack of the enemy, you are driving a sword through his plans” (p. 115).  The enemy despises our worship and praise to God so much that he cannot even be in the presence of  anyone who is actively doing that.  So whenever you want the enemy to flee, worship God” (p. 116).
Biggest Takeaway: I need to persevere in prayer and remember that “Something happens every time we pray, but we cannot put limits on what we think God can do or will do, because the answer is up to Him” (p 122) and that “Every prayer can save a life, change a life, spare a life, or redeem a life” (p. 193).

A Confident Heart: How to Stop Doubting Yourself and Live in the Security of God’s Promises

The Rundown:  Renee Swope explains that “Self doubt blocks the promise of God’s power and truth to change us from the inside out so that we can live with a confident heart” (p. 22).  She argues that “We’ll learn how to live beyond the shadows of doubt by holding each of our insecurities up to the light of God’s Word” (pp. 24-25).
Memorable Quotes:  “We were made for love that isn’t measured by our last accomplishment but marked by God’s measureless grace.  A confident heart is found in a woman who knows beyond the shadow of a doubt that she is loved no matter what.  Lasting security comes when we bring the empty well of our hearts to Jesus and ask Him to fill and fulfill us with the security of His unfailing love” (p. 62).  “A confident woman asks God to birth ministry through her burdens by meeting her needs, and then she looks for ways to join Him in meeting the needs of others who are going through something similar.  She knows god can use her brokenness to do something beautiful, because the cracks allow His light to shine through and His living water to pour out” (p. 151).
Biggest Takeaway:  This was a powerful book that provides practical help for tearing down mental strongholds.  Renee explains that “As we come to know God and fully rely on His love for us, we stop allowing the past to determine our future” (p. 73) and that “When we follow Him, we find our confidence in Him and our lives become a message about Him, the One who came to illuminate our darkness with His redeeming love” (p. 86).

The Greatest Gift:  Unwrapping the Full Love Story of Christmas

The Rundown:  Ann Voskamp invites her readers on an Advent journey to “Wait for the coming of the God in the manger who makes Himself bread for us near starved.”
Memorable Quotes:  “The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God” (p. 14).  “God comes through mangers.  The mundane holds miracles” (p. 116).  “You know you have an idol whenever you have to perform” (p. 149).
Biggest Takeaway:   My job is not to produce Christmas, but to receive it.  Ann explains: “Your greatest gift is not your gifts, but your surrendered yes to be a space for God” (p. 224).


 Q4U:  What are you reading these days?  Are you a book addict like me?  Have any confessions to share?

 

(I finally finished this post! Victory!!!!)

I am joining like-minded book addicts at Cozy Reading Spot and Saturday Review of Books.

 

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Shattered Dreams

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When I was young, I dreamed of a cozy house on a quiet street with a white picket fence.   Well-behaved children played in the yard with an adorable dog as my husband and I sat contentedly on the porch swing holding hands.  The skies were always blue.  The grass was green, and dinner was always magically on the table.

Now, I am older and wiser.  I live in a cozy house, and sometimes my husband and I will sit out back and hold hands.  I have a good life.  I don’t have the white picket fence or a puppy, but I have a lot to be thankful for.  God is good.

This is not heaven, however.  The skies are not always blue, and the grass is not always green.  Sometimes, the enemy of my soul tosses a big rock right through the window of my home and seeks to shatter my peace.  In fact, right now, I have a few boulders sitting right in the middle of my heart.

I am coming to the realization that I am asking the wrong questions.  I should not be asking “God, when is this going to end?”   Rather than asking for the rocks to stop coming, I need to acknowledge that my cozy home is not mine in the first place.  I have been bought with a price.  It’s God’s house, and He is more than able to shield me from the rocks.  If the rocks are landing, then it’s because He has a design for them.

I need to ask, “Lord, show me how to live with my rocks.”

This year, my desire is to hold fast to Him.  I am reminded that God’s servant Job showed tremendous courage and strength in the face of suffering.   His whole world was crumbling around Him. and He had lots of questions, but in the end, he persevered in His faith and grew to know God more intimately.

Maybe these rocks are opening up a hole in the window of my heart to see more of Him.  

The Lord said to Satan,
“Have you considered My servant Job?
For there is no one like him on the earth,
a blameless and upright man 
fearing God and turning away from evil. 
And he still holds fast his integrity, 
although you incited Me against him 
to ruin him without cause.”
Job 2:3, NASB

 

Q4U:  Do you have shattered dreams?  How do you hold fast when your world crashes in?

 

I am sharing “Shattered Dreams” and joining like-minded sisters at Words of Life Wednesdays, Tell His Story, A Little R and R, Testimony Tuesday, Soli Deo Gloria, Rich-Faith Rising, Sharing His Beauty, Playdates with God, and Hear it on Sunday: Use it on Monday.

 

Let’s hold fast together in 2014.

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Taking a Stroll

 

God, You did everything You promised,

and I’m thanking You with all my heart.

You pulled me from the brink of death,

my feet from the cliff-edge of doom.

Now I stroll at leisure with God

in the sunlit fields of life.

Psalms 56:13-14, MSG

 

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Lessons Learned in 3-D: Stay in Shape

This week, I’ve been digging into the Bible with a group of friends online and considering what the Bible has to say about being “Intentionally Focused” on our health.  I am learning that being healthy requires more than just getting to the gym a couple of times of week.  My emotions, my thought patterns, my relationships, and my habits all help shape me.

Here in no particular order are 5 things I learned this week about being a healthier me:

1.  I am God’s holy dwelling place, so I need to maintain my temple well so that I can bring Him maximum glory.   (Angela, thanks for the nudge in your VLOG at Good Morning Girls.)

2.  When emotions get heated and discernment is cloudy, it’s best to “hit the pause button.”  (Great advice here for singles and marrieds alike from David at Intentionally Yours.)

3.  Healthy friends help foster healthy habits.  Check out this Scripture:

Keep your eye on the healthy soul,

scrutinize the straight life;

There’s a future

in strenuous wholeness.

But the willful will soon be discarded;

insolent souls are on a dead-end street.

Psalms 37:37-38, MSG

4. If I get lazy and stop investing in others, I will develop a selfish attitude of entitlement that God must chasten.  Joe at Redeemed reminded me that “To stay prepared for service, I need to serve frequently.” (I loved his post titled “The Warm Up.”)

5.  I need to engage in a little self-examination so that I don’t stray from God’s path for me.  Courtney at A Work in Progress shared a beautiful Lenten activity for slowing down and re-focusing on Him:  “All this I give to you.”

Q4U:  What did you learn this week?

I am sharing “Stay in Shape” and joining like-minded sisters this weekend at Saturday Linky Love, The Weekend Brew, Whatever is Lovely, and The Friday Five.  

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Hope for the Heavy Heart

Some days I am a little dinghy getting battered by the onslaught on the tumultuous sea.  I forget who is Master of the waves, and I try to set my own course.  Heavy hearted, I’m weighed down and unable to bear the burden of my sin.

As the waves batter me, I remember.  I remember I am sin sick.  I see the dark sea of my desperate unrighteousness.

Fear and Suspicion flank my sides.  I’ve forsaken ties and untethered from all true companions who know the Way.

Close to drowning, I cry out May Day to the Master.  I confess I need Him to lighten my load.    I surrender the helm.

In the aftermath, He reminds me I have an anchor that holds in any storm.   I acknowledge again that He alone will chart my course.

I sail on in hope.

 

I am joining She Read Truth today and sharing “Hope for the Heavy Heart,” a reflection on Psalm 38.
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Mountaineering (Thought-Provoking Thursday)

 

“A voice said, “Climb.” And he said, “How shall I climb? the mountains are so steep that I cannot climb.”

The voice said, “Climb or die.”

He said, “But how?  I see no way up those steep ascents. This that is asked is too hard for me.”

The voice said, “Climb, or perish, soul and body of thee mind and spirit of thee. There is no second chance for any son of man. Climb or die.”
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Then he remembered that he had read in the books of the bravest climbers on the hills of the earth that sometimes they were aware of the presence of a Companion on the mountains who was not one of the earthly party of climbers.  And he remembered a word in the Book of Mountaineers…it heartened him, for it told him that he was created to walk in precarious places, not on the easy levels of life.”
~Amy Carmichael, A Very Present Help:  Lives of Great Christians

 

Keep looking up and remember you were made for the heights. 

 

The Sovereign Lord is my strength!

He makes me as surefooted as a deer,

able to tread upon the heights.

Habakkuk 3:19, NLT

Something to think about…

I am sharing “Mountaineering” and joining like-minded sisters at  Spiritual Sundays, Recommendation Saturday, Faith-Filled Friday, Thriving Thursday, and Quitting Thursday.

 

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On the Road to Nowhere

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Some days, I feel like I am driving on the road to Nowhere.  I look ahead, and all I see are obstacles in my way.  Insurmountable mountains loom in my view with no clear destination.  Danger, my mind tells me.  My whole being wants to turn around and run the other way.

Do you ever have days like that — days where you feel like you are moving forward with blinders on?  The traffic is congested, and misguided motorists are crowding you off the merciless road.

Hold fast, I hear a voice behind me say.

I must stick to the route.  I must follow Him onward.  I must cling to my compass when I don’t know which way is True North.

Hold fast.

I must tightly fasten the seat-belt of Truth and join Him on a journey.

If I don’t persist and choose instead to turn away, I will miss the Beauty on the other side of that majestic mountain.

Stay on the true path, my daughter.

Adventure awaits somewhere ahead.

Barricade the road that goes Nowhere;

    grace me with Your clear revelation.

I choose the true road to Somewhere,

    I post Your road signs at every curve and corner.

I grasp and cling to whatever You tell me;

    God, don’t let me down!

I’ll run the course You lay out for me

    if You’ll just show me how.

Psalms 119:29-32, MSG

 

Q4U:  How do you hold fast to the road when the way ahead is unclear?

 

I am sharing “The Road to Nowhere” and joining like-minded sisters at Words of Life Wednesdays, Tell His Story, A Little R and R, Testimony Tuesday, Soli Deo Gloria, Rich-Faith Rising, Playdates with God, and Hear it on Sunday: Use it on Monday.

 

Let’s hold fast together in 2014.

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Be Inventive

…Be inventive in hospitality.

Romans 12:13, MSG

 

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