Tag: inspiration
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The Gift of Joy: What the Wildflowers Taught Me
“Like wildflowers, we must allow ourselves to grow in all the places people never thought we would.” E.V. Rogina Wildflowers are difficult plants to tame. These stubborn little flowers continue to spread joy even in the most unlikely circumstances. We often will see them growing on the side of the highway or even through cracks…
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The Gift of Joy: Rediscovering Awe
Do you ever think back to when you were a child and wish you could go back? Why do you think that is? I can answer that for you in one word: joy. Children in their natural state are beings of pure joy. One of the reasons for this is their ability to see the…
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The Gift of Joy: Refined By Fire
Some people will spend their whole lives longing for joy but never find it. Others will find themselves at times grasping ahold of it only to have it somehow slip right through their fingers time and time again. Few people will every truly understand the meaning of joy and even fewer will hold on to…
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The Gift of Joy: Finally Finding Freedom
How would you describe joy? Like a field of wildflowers on a bright summer day—vibrant and warm; free. If you asked me this question a month ago, this is probably how I would respond. God’s been speaking to me lately. He’s been speaking to me through pain, through waiting, through uncertainty, through trials, and tribulations.…
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The Gift of Joy: Becoming Your Own Brand of Beautiful
I looked at all the little wildflowers around me, the same flowers many would walk past without noticing, and others would call weeds. The sun had just risen, and it was casting its golden light over the field of flowers. They looked so full of joy. It was almost as if they knew just how…
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The Gift of Wildflowers
My mom lives near this wildflower garden, one of my favorite little places in town. For months I’ve asked her “Have the wildflowers bloomed yet?” “Not yet.” She kept replying. “It’s not hot enough.”Wildflowers grow from the heat of the summer, and we too grow from heat. We can’t expect to live a sheltered life…
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The Gift of Waiting: God is Always on Time
I arrived at my appointment today about an hour early. Not on purpose, but because everything else had been done, and it would have been out of my way to go back home. Thus, I found myself in the parking lot with not a whole lot to do besides waste time. That’s when inspiration struck…
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The Gift of Defiant Joy
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:5) In my dining room, hangs a beautiful tapestry—a darkened forest illuminated by a bold and defiant light shining through the trees, a light that refuses to obey the darkness. Defiance is the refusal to obey someone or something. Have you…
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The Gift of Eden: Walking With God
Eden was full of gifts—beautiful surroundings, perfect health, no pain nor suffering, and no death. The greatest gift of all, the gift that made all the other gifts possible, was being able to walk alongside God. I’ve found myself at times longing for this very thing, the ability to walk next to my Creator, the…
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The Gift of Inspiration: Choosing Between Joy and Jealousy
This is a photo of my neighbor’s rose bush. It’s always been beautiful, but this season has been it’s best season by far—so big, so many blooms. It was this rose bush that inspired me into photography. I snapped a photo one day of my favorite bloom, framed it and gave it to the lady…
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