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Prayer

Freedom from Babble, Why We all Can Be Prayer-Full

11.09.2012

In this age of information and endless access to word after word after word…I am always startled at Jesus’ economy of words, the way He spoke so few and yet meant so much, the way His five word answers left everyone else speechless.   And in my own days of feeling like all I do [...]

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The Least You Can Do (Part 2)

08.31.2012

Lord, I hang the clothes to dry and pray for them-the girls who were unknowingly sold into prostitution, the young kids enslaved to make bricks or sew on buttons.  I pray for those who only own a stitch. As we stack up hand me downs and fill up bins to store the pants that are [...]

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The Least You Can Do

08.30.2012

Lord, as I flip the pancakes and spoon the oatmeal this morning for kids that promise me they’re ‘starving,’ I pray for those sweet children who actually are.  Where are they now Lord?  The statistics say that 13 out of every 100 human beings is malnourished. And you know them all, all 854 million of [...]

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A Confession for the Week (for the Weak)

07.30.2012

There are weeks like this one, with nothing but question marks at the end of each day. What will his boss say? What will my new doctor say? Should we commit to this? Can we actually make it to Wednesday without bread or milk (or flour or fruit) and only 2 eggs? When things are [...]

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5 Reasons to Get Quiet Today

07.09.2012

I’ve got the mute button pressed on this computer, but sometimes, sitting here, all the updates and posts and news can blare so loud.  So many times I think that I need to be here reading or writing or working or that I need to be in the kitchen or the laundry room.  So many [...]

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The Words that Can Undo You

06.25.2012

There is just too much to be done in this world when everything seems to do nothing but come undone. And there’s just too much for me to do.   So much that needs so much. The weight of it all can make the covers feel too heavy to push back in the mornings.  It [...]

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Why Bother to Pray? (and a printable)

06.18.2012

That parable about the guy banging on the door at midnight has always bothered me.  Is God the man all cozy in his house hot and bothered by my incessant begging for bread at the most inconvenient hour?  But the story’s more about the beggar than the man inside.  The point Jesus was making was [...]

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Are You Doing the Most You Can Do Today?

06.08.2012

When it’s just me here with the kids and I’m not doing anything more than bouncing babies and pushing swings, hardly more than reading books and playing Legos, little beyond sweeping and stacking, I can feel the threat of it.  When it’s quiet and it’s just me here, I can start to think that this [...]

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Because I Want What She Has

05.31.2012

Lord, it’s your last commandment that I can’t pretend to keep.  This command proves to me my need of you, my need for your forgiveness and your righteousness that kept this great law in my stead. It’s ridiculous, really.  I sit and read your beautiful promises to me-that you’ll never leave me or forsake me, [...]

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Soap Scum…Redeemed

05.29.2012

Last night, after the kids were all resting, I thought I should actually do a bit of cleaning since I purposed to do so over the long weekend and the long weekend was nearly long gone.  I finally brought myself to scrub our shower and then clean out our sink drains and Lions and Tigers [...]

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