My 16-year-old daughter just got her drivers license. What an exciting day! But it didn’t start out that way. It started with a plea to practice parallel parking—one.more.time. And so we did. It wasn't her best execution of the skill--which resulted in an emotional moment. Then we headed to the DPS ...
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Life WITH The Gift of Peace
Christmas Day is about a week away, and the airwaves are filled with Christmas music. One of the major themes you hear is peace. It's in most every traditional Christmas carol.
--Listen to what I say, pray for peace, people everywhere!
--Now ye need not fear the grave; Peace! Peace! Jesus ...
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Five Minute Friday: Free
It's Friday and time for some free writing! This week's prompt is FREE. Oh, how I love this.
In less than a week, my girls will start Summer Band ... from 7-4:45. For them, summer break will effectively be over. So today we escaped to the beach for one of our last summer fun times.
A few ...
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Hurried, Worried, and Upset
As I focus on Being instead of Doing this year, I find myself very aware of my time and how I want to invest it. The first week of school after Christmas break is invariably chock full of appointments--regardless of how hard I try to keep it light. (Ahhh... there it is again--the word try.) For the ...
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Reflecting on Grace
Each time He said, "My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness." So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. (2 Corinthians 12:9)
I am not a fan of pain. I can do without it! As a general rule, however, I think that pain and ...
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![This week in our small group study, I felt the Lord’s gentle chastisement.
We looked at the promise in Luke 11:28, “He [Jesus] replied, ‘Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.’”
At first glance, the promise of blessing comes from obedience. But it’s much more.
In the preceding verses, Jesus had cast out a demon that caused a man to be mute. The crowd accused Him of casting out a demon with Satan’s power.
Jesus explained how ridiculous it would be for Satan to drive out his own demons. Then a woman cries out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you,” (v 27).
This is the sticking point. Jesus was in the middle of an important discourse when this woman interrupts Him. He corrects her with this:
✨ Blessed are those who HEAR the word of God and obey it.
That word HEAR means to LISTEN with FULL ATTENTION.
✨ We cannot truly obey God if we don’t know what He’s saying to us.
Basically, Jesus told this woman, and the others in the crowd, “Pay attention!! Don’t get distracted from my voice. I have important things to tell you. You won’t know what they are and what I want you to do, if all you’re thinking about is what you want to say or how you can gain attention. Put your attention on ME.”
It’s never fun to be Jesus’s object lesson.
The questions I’m asking myself …
✨ What keeps me from spending time alone with Jesus?
✨ When I finally get alone with Him, what distracts me?
✨ What keeps me from focusing on God’s Word?
✨ What causes my kind to wander when I’m praying?
➡️ Eliminating distractions …
➡️ Exercising discipline …
… to bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5)
… brings true blessing.
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