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The Hidden Life of Wheat

Discernment Reflections & Ponderings Spiritual Formation Waiting

Rest: Lessons from a Tree of Life

Living out of a Bust Cycle “We are a do-it-yourself culture…with a constant compulsion for workaholism, and seeing our activity being what proves we have value, meaning and purpose in the world […] We live in a culture that has reversed the biblical order of being and doing. They are related, but we have to get the order straight. Our doing flows out of our being. Our relationship with God, not our doing, is the…

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Reflections & Ponderings

Waters of Love

Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus.  I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:17-19 There is no end to the love created and exuding the Triune God;  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit A flowing…

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Learn by Paradox Reflections & Ponderings

Living in a World of Blessings and Curses

Reflections & Ponderings

If Tables Could Talk

A few nights ago we sat at our neighbor’s table, might I add, no ordinary table. It was an eight-foot single of slab of maple that he’d hand planed, sanded, and cured with love for their family to enjoy meals and fellowship for years to come. The beauty of the craftsmanship was secondary to the waves of stories marked by the wood’s flowing grain etched throughout the various hues of brown, black, tan and red…

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