Tag: peace
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The Gift of Good Medicine
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22) This verse has been ringing my ears these days. What exactly is a joyful heart, and why does God tell us it’s good medicine? Like any good medicine, we must go to the doctor to receive it. In order…
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The Gift of Peace: Choosing Confrontation Over Comfortability
Sometimes confrontation must come before peace—whether it be a person (with compassion), a situation, a trauma, or even a dream. We must refuse to run away from conflict and instead, choose to face things, face people, no matter how uncomfortable it may be in the moment. This is how we find peace. There’s a difference…
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The Gift of Peace: God is Bigger Than the Storm
I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. (John 16:33) The thing about life is this, as bleak as it may sound, no one gets out alive, and no one gets through it without their own…
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The Gift of Peace and Pretty Things
Life has been heavy lately. My ceiling falling in on my kitchen was nothing but the cherry on top of the cake. While the maintenance crew began to create for me a new ceiling, I decided to do some creating of my own. I had a craving for soft and light colors, blues and purples.…
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The Gift of Peacemakers: Peace is in Your Hands
What makes you feel at peace? For me, it’s pretty simple—I love creating. When I stop creating, I soon start to feel different in my spirit. I was made to create, whether that be a painting, a book, a poem, a home, or even peace itself. Recently during a podcast, the host began to speak…
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The Gift of Peace: Realizing God’s Timing is Perfect
It was around one o’clock am when Sassy and I were abruptly awoken by a crash coming from my kitchen. A leak from upstairs had led to a progressive weakening in the integrity of my ceiling. By that time, the leak had been fixed, but the damage had already been done. Earlier that day, just…
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The Gift of Patience: Discovering Your Superpower
As kids we always thought superpowers belonged to superheroes like Superman, Spider-Man, and Wonder Woman. As we grow from impatient little children into full grown adults, we begin to realize the true superpower in this life is patience, and the ones that learn to master this are the real heroes. Someone wise once said, when…
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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 the Storm: Remembering Who God is
The storm reminds us that life is often chaotic, dark, and completely unpredictable. The storm tests our faith and pushes us deeper into God (or our idols). The storm reveals our inadequacies, our fears, our weaknesses, and all the things we seek comfort in—our addictions, distractions. The storm can bend us so far we nearly…
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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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