grace
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: King Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes, a book in the Old Testament, where he seeks to understand the purpose of life through wisdom, pleasure, and toil. The chapter starts off with King Solomon talking to himself: “I said to myself, “Have fun and enjoy…
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In the turbulent waters of my heroin addiction, I was a sailor lost, my vessel breaking against the jagged shores of despair. Every needle was a desperate row, an attempt to steer away from the wreckage I was becoming. My oars, stained with the shadows of self-destruction, fought against the currents that whispered of a…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: I love John Eldridge of Wild at Heart ministry. I want to share one of his daily readings with you, “I love feeling happy. Absolutely love it. Who doesn’t? But my pursuit of it has sometimes gotten me into trouble. I’m pretty…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: Easter is tomorrow. It means a great deal to me because Father God left his residence to come into ours and meet us where we are. He took our shame, our guilt, our discouragement and lack of understanding and he wrapped it…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: If I were not loved by God, I wouldn’t have made it through this life. How do I know God is real? Because I first new evil. Darkness hovered in every corner of our house when I was young. If darkness were…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: “Teach me how to talk,” a friend honestly asked me on day. She shared that she struggled knowing how. Now, this was a friend that I spent hours talking to but I knew exactly what she meant. She wanted to speak in…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: King Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes, a book in the Old Testament, where he seeks to understand the purpose of life through wisdom, pleasure, and toil. The chapter starts off with King Solomon talking to himself: “I said to myself, “Have fun and enjoy…
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In this land of polished smiles and hollow promises, we drape ourselves in the pretense of cherishing our children. We construct monuments of virtue, each brick laid with declarations of their importance. Yet, beneath this facade, our actions whisper truths too bitter to acknowledge. We parade our offspring as trophies, their achievements our own reflected…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: Abusers lie but we tend to believe their stories anyway. Why? Why are we so reticent to believe that people will calculate a story to manipulate us. We tend to look for the good in people denying the counterfeit parts we see.…
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I was born into a world that seemed to shun me, a fragile vessel adrift in a sea of despair. My earliest memories are tinged with shadows, the kind that cling to your very soul, refusing to let go. Pain was my constant companion, whispering cruel nothings into my ear, convincing me of my unworthiness.…