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Set Apart to be Sent Out
[Y]ou shall be my special possession, dearer to me than all other people, though all the earth is mine. // Exodus 19:5 I am picking up on a pattern in...
In Her Immaculate Heart
He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart. // Luke 2:51 The change happened...
A Rest That Surpasses All Understanding
The LORD set his heart on you. // Deuteronomy 7:7 My spring was unusually full, traveling nearly every weekend, January through April, to speak and lead retreats. And these were...
Longing For Home
For if what was going to fade was glorious, how much more will what endures be glorious. // 2 Corinthians 3:11 I pressed my cheek against the cool wall of...
Encouragement In Our Afflictions
Father of compassion and the God of all encouragement, who encourages us in our every affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction...
How to Make A Hard Saying Easier
Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my...
Multiply What Feels Meager
This poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed...
At Home with The Father
Welcome to your home with blessing and joy. Come in, daughter. // Tobit 11:17 For the longest time “church” had been a place where I went on Sunday, but toward...
Mercy From His Heart
Allow us to live together to a happy old age. // Tobit 8:7 This line from Tobit was a saving grace on my thirty-second birthday. I had recently moved by...
Focusing On Love
“He is not God of the dead but of the living.” // Mark 12:27 I love a good series. Book, movie, or television, I love when a creator builds upon...
Better, Not Bitter
I went to see some doctors for a cure but the more they anointed my eyes with various salves, the worse the cataracts became, until I could see no more. For...
He Speaks To You
. . . [T]hey realized that he had addressed the parable to them. So they left him and went away. // Mark 12:12It’s me. I’m the one to whom Jesus...
