Tag: relationships
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“The Hungry Soul He fills with Good things”
For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things. Luke 13:29 ESV The longing soul. The hungry soul. Obviously the filling here is not physical. And yet, metaphor is such a powerful way to get the truth from the theoretical to the place of our deepest knowing. What am […]
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Loosing my Voice
When the world gets loud, I loose my voice. My emotional voice. No words. I am speechless, nothing left to say. And I wonder , if I will Simply cease to be. For how can one think, but not express ? Or is this the modern curse? Expectation. Because we have the platform, we think […]
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Depths of Sorrow, Heights of Joy
“Art also reveals the “roar which lies on the other side of silence.” In other words, artists, by being sensitive to the world around them, also feel deeply the wounds and agony of life along with its explosive potential. To know an artist is to know both the depth of sorrows and the heights of […]
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Mother’s Day Is On the Horizon
What better way to celebrate the Moms in our lives than with photos? What better way to encapsulate our own mothering journey than a fun lifestyle photo session with our kids? Not posed and formal, but fun and relaxed, in order to capture our children as they really are.
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Prayers Rising like Incense
“May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.” Psalm 141 : 2 NIV I’m taking liberties with my metaphor. This is obviously steam and not incense. But I’ve been thinking about the prayers of the saints lately. Are our prayers rising? In […]
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Chasing the Light
I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical. -Trent Parke, The Seventh Wave
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Winter Sunsets and Dependable Kindness
I have a very kind husband. The kind of husband who has forever changed my view of men. You see, I grew up with men who equated machoism and control for manliness. Men who were selfish, unreliable. Men who valued status and power and wealth. Men who thought using women was acceptable. Men who were […]
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Of Winter and Rest
Wayne Muller says: ‘Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the compass points that would show us where to go, we bypass the nourishment that would give us succor. We miss the quiet that would give us wisdom. We miss the joy and love born of effortless delight.” Winter is an […]
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10 Ways to Nurture Your Children
What is nurturing? Nurturing is essentially developing a secure bond between your child and yourself. I’m going to give you ten ways to nurture your children. Some of them you may not have thought of before, many of them may be things you are already doing. One: Look your child in the eyes when they […]