I'm all-in when I'm in. I give more than 100 percent. I don't know how to do anything half-heartedly. But something's been telling me that my unrest has more to do with my heart than anything else.
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Do you feel like you’re in a desert? Maybe wandering. Maybe hiding. Maybe alone or empty or worn down. Hungry, longing, reaching, walking…
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Are you ready for a sneak peek? It's a strategy for dialogue, instead of lecture. It's a strategy for modeling clean-slate forgiveness (even when consequences are still necessary). It's a strategy for teaching our kids the biblical "why" for every behavior we expect of them and knowing the "why" for ourselves. It's a strategy for keeping our parenting centered around the Gospel.
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I stayed low. I stayed on my knees, in my heart even when I couldn't touch my physical knees to the ground. I stayed near to the One I knew would carry me through, whatever that looked like.
He's there, my friend. In the pain and the lack and the letting go. He never leaves. He pierces the darkness with His powerful, beautiful Presence.
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I keep reminding myself that this is just a phase—that he will outgrow it. But, the truth is, I have still not outgrown the desire to cry and yell and sometimes throw myself down in a fit of rage.
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One of the most quintessential things about children is their curiosity. It's the fact that they ask, "Why?" And they ask it again. And again. And again.
They want to understand. They crave knowledge. They are hungry to learn.
If God wants us to have child-like faith, then it looks to me like He's willing to entertain our questions and our pleas for understanding...
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How much of a hold do you have on your thought-life? Are you wrestling with worry and longing for peace? Do you get overwhelmed by thoughts that you can't get out of your head? It's not too late to catch up on the Captive: Worry Cleanse Bible study!
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Are you weary, worn out, wondering, worried?
I need something to lift the pressure. Do you?
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...creating pure white just always seemed out of reach to me. I couldn’t achieve the color on my own. No matter how hard I stirred and mixed and blended.
...Have you thought of that purity as something that is wholly out of reach for you—so completely unattainable?
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