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Beauty & Pain

Beauty and pain. To me, this photo expresses it so perfectly. It’s always both in life. It seems like one is greater than the other at times, but neither one is ever totally absent. Obviously, it’s only a challenge when pain appears to outweigh beauty. If I concentrate on the hurricane, I’ll lose sight of…

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May Day

My fears range from silly to serious: Fear of losing love Fear of heights Fear of making a mistake Fear of being vulnerable Fear of spiders Fear of misplacing my trust Fear of being betrayed Fear of wasting my time Fear of harm Fear of people Fear of squandered love Too many more to list….

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Finish Me

This New life in Christ is everything you need it to be. It’s just not always what you want it to be. If you are in it long enough, there might be times that you wonder and maybe you doubt about your role and your purpose. If you never have these thoughts, Amen. But I’m…

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The Rock

The Rock   God, listen to my cry! Hear my prayer! From the ends of the earth, I cry to you for help when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the towering rock of safety, for you are my safe refuge, a fortress where my enemies cannot reach me. Let me live forever in…

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Cross Over

This mortal life will never be ours to fully direct. I have given my best effort to influence it’s course, but there are too many other variables that impact my life which are out of my control. From the start it was obvious that this is true because I did not have any power over…

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Compelling

What is the justification a person would have to allow them to alter their life and their heart for a Being they’ve never seen and a Sacrifice they never witnessed? What is so convincing?? Fear, pressure, religion, guilt, appearance, reward,self righteousness  love. All of these reasons? Some of them? One of them? None of them?…