Refreshing – Mind, Body, Soul and Spirit

Do you ever feel just plain tired? Worn out? Like you’re in a dry desert of life?  Perhaps you’re feeling the darkness and cold of longer nights if it’s winter, loneliness, confinement, or the longing for something new, an escape from the monotony of the day to day life.  You’re not alone. Living through a…

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Examen This Day

READ “You will seek Me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13 “I am with you always…” Matt 28:20 “You thrill me, Lord, with all you have done for me.” Psalm 92:4 REFLECT Quick! If I ask you to recount your day yesterday, will you be able to share…

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My Christmas PlayList

READ John 1:14 So the Word became human and dwelt among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son. Luke 1:78 Because of God’s tender mercy, the morning light from heaven is about to visit us, to give light…

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Arm and Aim With Jesus

READ Be still and know that I am God. Ps 46:10 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body, you were called to peace. And be thankful. Colossians 3:15 We thank you, O God! We give thanks because you are near. People everywhere tell of your wonderful deeds.…

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Sometimes It Just Seems to Be Too Much

A prayer by Ted Loder Sometimes, Lord, it just seems to be too much: too much violence, too much fear; too much of demands and problems; too much of broken dreams and broken lives; too much of war and slums and dying; too much of greed and squishy fatness and the sounds of people devouring…

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Live Hope

It’s hard to believe how much the world has changed in just a few years. At the beginning of 2019, we thought we understood how dark the world could be, how lost, how hopeless. Today, we’re inundated with despair and discouragement. It’s fitting we revisit these words from February 2019, because we need this truth…

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A follow up to “Live Hope”

REFLECT Perhaps you took the time last month to read the Discover Hope Reflection Article, “Live Hope,” by our minister of spiritual care, LuAnn Roberson. If not, you can access the article HERE. The idea that we find hope by going through despair, rather than trying to avoid or use optimism to cope, was intriguing…

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Breath

READ And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7 True to your word, you let me catch my breath and send me in the right direction. Psalm 23:3 He breathed on them, saying, “Receive…

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Live Hope

READ “My soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: because of the Lord’s great LOVE we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning.” – Lamentations 3:20-24 “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you…

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Come to your senses

Read “I have come as a light to shine in this dark world.” John 12:46 “Anyone who has ears to hear should listen and understand.” Mark 4:9 “We are the salt of the earth.” Matt 5:15 “We are the fragrance of Christ…” 2 Corinthians 2:14-16 “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” Psalm 34:8…

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