Continuing the “Love” theme of last week, I am re-sharing a prayer I wrote a couple years ago. However your heart feels and whatever your heart is holding, there is sacred space for that. God always makes room for “all the things.” It’s a priceless gift to me when I often tell my own self…
Have you heard the serpent’s whisper in your life recently? “Did God really say…..” As I myself struggle with trust in some areas of my life, I’ve heard this whisper from Genesis 3 when the serpent confronts Eve. Did God really say…. Sometimes, like Eve, I can respond forthrightly with what God said. But then,…
Thank you all so much for surrounding me with such tenderness and love following my post/prayer earlier this week. Our beloved community near and far has continued to make Christ real to us each day through prayers, caring for our kids, dropping off food, running errands, and sending gift cards. Though I’ve embraced it reluctantly,…
Henri Nouwen reminds me we have the choice between living in the house of fear or the house of love (and 1 John says, “perfect love casts out all fear” – they don’t co-exist). I’ve been thinking lately about how confining and threatening it feels to live in fear when it comes to how…
Loving Creator, You are the Creator of us, the Creator of the year before us, the Creator of the lives we hold each day. You have called us, God, to be creators too – to grace the little space around us with beauty; to instill peace and hope wherever we may go. We pray…
Gracious God, You bring us gifts of solace and encouragement at the close of another week. Some of the week’s events bruised our hearts, some discouraged our hopes, some pierced us with panic, some caused us to shut down… And so, God, it is grace – it is gift – it is life – that…
It’s been a bit quiet on my blog, here, as I’ve been hard at work for the Illustrated Children’s Ministry summer launch. Friends, I am SO excited about this. Adam Walker Cleveland is the brain-child behind this venture. He saw a need for creative ways to approach faith, both at home and at church. He created this….
I’m praying you’re encouraged by the post I wrote for today’s “Practicing Families blog.” Grace and peace, Arianne
(Written as today’s guest post for the “Practicing Families” blog in their Lectionary Mondays series…) Scripture: Psalm 25:1-10 To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. O my God, in you I trust; do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me. Do not let those who…
One of my best friends gave me a fresh journal this summer. The cover holds the following statement: “IT’S GONNA BE OKAY: A journal to reassure myself when I’m overwhelmed by the creeping sense of impending disaster and the all-encompassing fears both specified and vague that colonize my mind, body, and soul, all of which,…
One of my best friends gave me a fresh journal this summer. The cover holds the following statement: “IT’S GONNA BE OKAY: A journal to reassure myself when I’m overwhelmed by the creeping sense of impending disaster and the all-encompassing fears both specified and vague that colonize my mind, body, and soul, all of which,…
When was the last time you told yourself you “should” do or be something because you saw someone else doing or being that particular something? You can read my reflection for today’s “Practicing Families” blog that centers on that topic by clicking here. About a year ago, I learned of “Practicing Families” – an online…
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