Month: March 2024
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It’s Not the End
“Here we are at last, at the end of all things” that is a line from “The Lord of the Rings.” It’s funny but that moment was not the end at all. It was only an end of their hard journey for a moment. There was more to their story still be witten and lived. More…
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Abuse and Trauma
Abuse and trauma. In some ways these words have been normalized, minimized, or dismissed by many. Some perceive them as not real or even noteworthy. Instead, they are considered someone’s opinion of what happened, and not reality. This idea that abuse or trauma is in our minds only and that they are our perception of events, diminishes what occurred,…
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A Call to Humble Faithfulness
I was listening to a talk that was being given and I heard a phrase I had heard before but I heard it in a new way. For two days now that phrase has been turning over in my mind. ”God hasn’t called you to be successful, he has called us to be faithful.” Wow,…
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Mercy
One attribute shown to us by God is mercy. We sing about it, read scriptures about it, and hear sermons about it. But do we really understand what mercy is? According to the Oxford language dictionary mercy is compassion or forgiveness shown towards someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm. Prior…
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Beautifully Broken
I have this mower that functions correctly, it will mow, but the handle, well it’s broken really. You can move the handle up and down in a way that it’s not supposed to move. I started thinking about this. How something can be broken but still function or at least serve the function that it…
Devotions For Real Life 