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  • Jewels, Gems & Gunpowder

    I would love to hear from you! A Jewel: I’m reading through the book of Isaiah right now. It’s a bit of a hard read but I understand fully what Isaiah was saying in his time. He was a “piercing poet, who understood the two-sided nature of God’s character; mercy and judgment, grace and discipline,…

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  • The Ones Who Carry Light

    There was a time when the dark swallowed me whole. A time when I moved through the world like a ghost wearing my own skin, my voice no louder than a breath lost in the wind. But the thing about darkness is—if you wait long enough, if you claw and crawl and refuse to be…

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  • Moments of reflection — what better way to start a week. Chronic physical pain has been with me since I was a child. I have also lived with severe PTSD. A childhood wrought with murder, confusion, and constant physical, emotional and sexual abuse left its course surging through my veins. Chronic physical pain and PTSD…

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  • Plateaus With Jesus

    Have you ever experienced moments where your spiritual journey seems to hit a plateau—even when you’re earnestly seeking a deeper connection with Jesus? It’s natural for our hearts to face both breakthroughs and slow stretches along the path of faith. Sometimes, you feel an overwhelming surge of grace that reshapes your inner world, and other…

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  • Deception is the oldest story in the book. It begins in a garden with a lie, and for many of us, it begins in childhood. That precious window of innocence—where we were meant to feel safe, cherished, and unshakably loved—is often where evil strikes first. The enemy is subtle. He slithers in with confusion, betrayal,…

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  • Jewels, Gems & Gunpowder

    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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  • Jewels, Gems & Gunpowder

    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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  • Jewels, Gems & Gunpowder

    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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  • Jewels, Gems & Gunpowder

    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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  • Jewels, Gems & Gunpowder

    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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