Brown leaves on gray stone

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  • Post last modified:March 21, 2024

Most likely, none of us would choose brown and gray all year long. But if we don’t stop to appreciate what God has made beautiful in this time, we may get all our presents and miss all our moments.

Interesting door handle on a dark door, opening to a hazy, but very green, world

And the future starts now

Even in suffering, even in exile, may you find growing within you: A life energetic and blazing with holiness, conceived by God himself. Life healed and whole. Laughter and singing. Genuine faith proved genuine. Living hope. One-anothering love. A future that starts now.

The wedding dance of a bride and groom

Dance with me, O Lover of my soul

Learning to dance with God means being vulnerable, flexible, brave, as he frees us from the paralysis of the religious and teaches us to move in sync with him.

Hand held out, open, in the light - letting go of the sand falling through its fingers

I let go

"I let go of all I have just to have all of You." - A song that has encouraged me in the night, "Worth It All," Meredith Andrews

Guys in green t-shirts pull with great determination on a tug-of-war rope.

A decisive letting go

Psalm 46:10 says, "Be still, and know that I am God." But the Hebrew verb translated "be still" actually means: "Decisively let go, or abruptly cease, something strenuous you are doing." It urges me to let go of the tug-of-war rope called enmeshment, that robs me of identity and intimacy.

Door to hope: An open door welcomes you into a sun room filled with plants and light.

A future filled with hope

It's the best-loved verse in Jeremiah, and God says it to exiles. He announces to people who feel they have no future at all: "I know what I have planned for you. I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope."

A crown formed from clear splashing water sparkles against a black background.

Grace triumphs over power

If you have suffered at the hands of the self-absorbed, the biblical book of Esther was written for you. Far from the fairy tale we've imagined, Esther's story shows us how to overcome the chaos and destruction wreaked by narcissists who care only for themselves.

In a stained-glass window of a church in France, a dove with its wings outspread appears about to land - on you.

Our Spirit-to-spirit birthright

More than a century ago, Andrew Murray explored the difference - and the conflict - between our spirit and our soul. He showed from Scripture the Spirit-to-spirit dynamic God has designed.