Category: encouragement
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Graced for This…Endurance
Love Endures… My eighth grade teacher, Ms. Moran told me “people will notice your smile but they’ll remember your dash, because when your gears get going it’s a heck of a ride”. While running track, I discovered relay races were my niche. Although I preferred to be first leg, my coach often had me post…
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Conduits
God uses flawed humanity to speak, do and minister (grace&/goodness) to the heart and needs of flawed humanity. Your kindness (that’s not really your own), effort, sacrifice and love may be mishandled, not appreciated, remembered, and even discarded by the flawed. You definitely will feel some kind of way and want some reprieve. Better yet…
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Eyes Wide Open
Eyes wide open…after fumbling around not being able to see or hear this little one woke me up out of a sound sleep (yelping) (not so cute when you work overnights). My Baylee girl has been really good with him and she usually readily responds to his cries but for some reason she wasn’t fazed…
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Pressure of the Urn
…he will give a crown of beauty for ashes…Isaiah 61:3 Sitting on the mantle of my cognitive awareness, vividly decorated by the details of life and love resides the ashes of mourning. Seared into the seat of my emotions is the confinement of a costly closed container housing the remains of death…all that has died…
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Pressure to Begin Again
I like the month of August for a many reasons but mainly because it’s the eighth month of the year. It serves as a reminder that life and love holds the promise of new beginnings. It’s the month if we’re cognitive that we feel the pressure to Begin again. I don’t know that…
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Pressure To Gather
“When they had all had enough, He said to His disciples, Gather up now the fragments (the broken pieces that are left over), so that nothing may be lost and wasted.” (John 6:12 AMP) One would only have had to enjoy playing with building blocks as a child to know the value, validity and variety…
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Lady V.
“A brother/sister offended is harder to be won than a strong city and their contentions are like the bars of a castle”. (Proverbs 18:19) Lady V. She’ll probably never be the example used for a woman’s day message, nor serve as the prototype for anybody’s First Lady but Vashti’s anger, antics and actions can teach…
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Father Knows Best
While my father was escorting me down the aisle some years ago, he looked over and said (paraphrase) “got dang Brina you shaking like a fudging leaf you still want to do this right?” Behind a plastered smile and under my breath I told him yes and reminded him “daddy we in church”. This man,…
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CAN U
Can You Love Me in God’s stead? Can God trust you to sow into and steward His purpose for me? Will you pray to that accord, care for and nurture me to that accord? Can you be used by God to help grow and groom the gift in me? Even if you wouldn’t get the…
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There
There are some places we go with God that ushers in beautiful tranquility. Life and love feels doable. We enjoy the experience and don’t mind the journey. Those places we expectantly, readily and willingly go with God. There is no resistance or dread…this is where God is, where He is leading and taking me (high…
In His Likeness w/ AntTBri 