Category: Devotionals
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The Purpose We Don’t Choose
“I feel like God hates me.” It was difficult to hear those tearful words from my daughter as she wrestled with the weight of everything that has happened to her this past year. I’m grateful that she has finally healed enough to begin emotionally processing, but there is so much about the past several months…
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Coping With My Daughter’s Health Crisis
How do you write about the most horrific thing you’ve ever experienced? For a long time I’ve believed that we are meant to share one another’s stories to bring light to each other in the darkness. I know we are called to encourage each other and to bring hope in the midst of pain and…
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What To Pursue As We Seek God
Last week we took a carload of kids to a youth camp in another state. Although it wasn’t exactly a typical ‘vacation’, we viewed it as a ‘road trip with purpose’, and on the way back we did get to stop and enjoy a couple of nights at a cottage on the lake. When you…
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Victory In The Suffering Of Injustice
“But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God.” – 1 Peter 2:25 NASB In my garden last month, I had a beautiful, thriving zucchini plant with healthy blossoms that were beginning to turn into a harvest. Now I have a dead plant…
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The Impact of Sincere Faith
I’ve seen a lot written lately about a sense of despair that many people have collectively felt in the past few years. It’s not just that the world keeps getting crazier and crazier, but it also appears that many of us have seen the struggles amp up in our lives. I’ve seen it too, where…
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Wanderlust
Sometimes when I’m scrolling through videos on Instagram or scouring the Internet for new travel ideas, I come across images of amazing views and exotic places, and I feel that familiar twinge in my heart, that aching longing for adventure. I definitely have an innate sense of escapism when it comes to dealing with life’s…
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Worth It
Today is a beautiful day, filled with pleasant spring weather. When the scene surrounding me is peaceful and serene, I feel a hint of contentedness that I used to know more often. It’s easy to lose sight of that peace when our days seem to be filled with turmoil and struggle more often than not.…
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When God Is All There Is
Lately my family and I have been watching the survival show Alone in the evenings. The premise is that ten people are dropped off at different locations around Vancouver Island with only a backpack of gear and must figure out how to survive alone. When they reach their breaking point, they can call the rescue…
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Look At The Birds Of The Air
This spring a mama bird made her nest under the roof of our porch, where my husband and I often like to sit and chat. Each time we’ve sat out there during the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen the poor mama dart toward the nest and then retreat to a perch in the distance…
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Spring Cleaning ‘Checklist’
Though many people start thinking about new beginnings at the first of the year and moving forward with resolutions and goals, I think that for some of us, spring has traditionally been the time for that kind of reset. As the days start to get longer and warmer, and everything seems to feel a little…
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