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A New Flavor of Adoration
[Lately I've been practicing a new form of adoration. Instead of just a verse or two or three that describe Jesus, I've been taking a passage about Him from the gospels and sliding myself right in there -- feeling the desert-dust on my knees and smelling His sweat as...
When Love Has Its Way With Us
She elbowed and writhed and pulled at my fingers which were wrapped tenderly around her arm. She shimmied with adrenaline-charged strength I'd not seen before in her, determined not to know the intimacy of my hold or to hear healing words. Her body fought what it...
Your Glory Welling Up, From Within
And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. John 17:10** I am Yours. I can hide in the safety of another's leadership over my life; leadership from One who is so kind. You claim me. You aren't afraid to own me, all of me and all of my lack...
Not Just Above, But In
In every scraped knee, and "mommy, my belly hurts." In every text from states away with request for urgent prayer, and in the circumstance from a few bedroom doors down in need of urgent prayer. In every lingering chest ache, stirred up by an absent-minded comment. In...
Holy Gaps
[Continuing the conversation from earlier this week ...] Her hurt hooked me in, again. She looked down and my heart picked up pace. Years of training selflessness, teaching them about a heart focused out and up (not in), were challenged in the face of this child, who...
The Ache Which Motherhood Reveals
It was the end of a long day. You've had them. I was minutes away from leaving the house for a Bible study. A way out -- an unfiltered thought I received. Mistake #1. Though the scenery might change, I couldn't leave my heart at home. She was dustpan-in-hand and...
“I Make Jesus Laugh”
My mommy and daddy love me soooo much! she penned across the page of her own moleskine journal. It was a long night, with a fresh new ending. He was making her new and working from the inside out. She took a misstep, we course corrected, and she had sunk deep instead...
You Burn Beauty
These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire. Revelation 2:18** You see me and You know me. You made me, and yet Your eyes, now, bring healing for that which has been tainted by the world since You spoke my conception. They ignite, enflame. They...
An Escape from Escape
"I just heard the sweetest sound," she sent in text. I'd been praying with her for weeks, since her body first revealed signs of new life, inside. On the heels of two miscarriages, this mama walked headlong into her fears, declaring into her heart a different word....
Something of His, Fulfilled in …Me?
But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. John 17:13** Do I have even the slightest measure of the fullness You intended for me? Have I even sampled one iota? Your intentions are rich, because...