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I Lift up my Soul
To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. Psalm 25:1 Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. Psalm 86:4 Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. Psalm 143:8, all ESV Mysterious soul, how challenging it is to… Read More
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King Tide
For you, little bug. For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Habakkuk 2:14 A king tide is a non-scientific term used to describe the largest type of tide, which occurs when the earth, moon, and sun are perfectly aligned. I’m a mountain girl, and I did not grow up understanding tides and shorelines. I left the mountains to explore the world.… Read More
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Airplane Mode
Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. Psalm 46:10 I travel a lot, and sometimes the only break I get from the incessant melody of phone pings is that period of time in an airplane when I am forced to turn my device to airplane mode. Recently as I headed home, the flight attendant explained that it was because our incoming… Read More
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Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” “Sir,” the woman said to him, “you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?” …Jesus replied, “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again. But… Read More
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Time for a Holy Pause
For K, who selahs with me. When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. SELAH Psalm 75:3 On a high mountain deep in the Asian jungle, there is a refuge. At the end of a long red road, it sits like a grandmother, beckoning the bruised to climb onto her lap and be mended, comforted. Sung over with songs of love and healing. The threshold of this… Read More
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Gone, Just Gone
They went out and got into the boat. John 21:3b Her house is gone, just gone. In its place is a garden. But when I stand there, listening to the creek that has not altered with time, I feel her front porch beckoning me. The swing sings on the wind, inviting me to sit awhile. I can smell the pungent odor of her marigolds, which she swore kept the mosquitoes away. I can see the… Read More
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When Someone Else’s Obedience Scares You
For my brother and friend. Thanks for teaching me to trust our Helper. I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. The Lord will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore. Psalm 121:1-2, 7-8 Illuminated only by our headlights in… Read More
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Rear Guard
But you will not leave in haste or go in flight; for the Lord will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard. Isaiah 52:12 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. Isaiah 58:8 For Fatuma and I, the village was a two-day journey… Read More
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Do Not Dwell
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:18-19 Dwell: Reside, live, have one’s home, have one’s residence, be settled, be housed, lodge, stay; abide; linger over, mull over, muse on, brood about, think about, be preoccupied… Read More
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Christmas for Every Tribe
I am a witness to the story I tell today. It is sure and true. Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.” And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and… Read More