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What Is The Beginning?
Last night we watched The Chosen Season 2, Episode 1. My favorite episode. If you have never watched The Chosen and want to watch a depiction of what it would have been like to live and learn from Jesus as experienced by the disciples in all their very human flaws, then this will stitch time…
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Love God and Understanding Follows
Revelation 7 opens with 4 angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds to prevent any wind from blowing. Can you imagine how still that would be? I love seeing the breeze blowing the branches of the trees; it’s comforting and reminds me of Holy Spirit moving. Another angel…
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Powerful Hoofbeats
In Reading Revelation 6 the Lamb opens the first of 7 Seals and immediately are the hoofbeats of the 4 horses being sent out. I can almost hear the sound. Their riders were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the…
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A Path Well Lit
In the ever increasing turmoil of the events of today it’s so easy to stumble in the darkness of hate. We let anger overtake our hearts and we can’t see through the forest of confusion. We think we know best – what else is there? In Revelation 5 in spirit John was in heaven and…
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Precision
This morning looking out the window, I saw rows of sunshine stretched across the street, the sky a warm blue and the colors felt slightly different. In prayer I began to think about how we are past the longest day of the year and the days will begin to slowly shorten. I thought about this…
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God’s Warnings Remove Blinders of Lies
I finished reading Revelation 2 and 3. Both Chapters are letters to the 7 Churches in Asia written approximately 95 A.D. God’s Church is the Body of Christ so those letters are for us today as well. I appreciated the summary provided by my Study Application NIV Bible. There were commendations for 6 of the…
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Our Father
This morning in our Friday morning Prayer and Practices meeting on Zoom with people from different states and one member from Kenya, we first visited and then shared concerns we lifted up to God in prayer together. It’s so good to pray for each other and for those brought to us out of concern and…
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Rushing Waters
Several years ago, my husband and I with our son, were visiting Oregon. As we walked along the beach beside the Pacific Ocean, I was struck by the constant roar of the Pacific. There was mist and rising out of the mist were the Sea Stacks remnants of volcanic blastings millions of years ago as…
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Jesus’s Hands
Last night we rewatched The Chosen episode where Jesus turned the water into wine (John 2:1-11) at the wedding feast in Cana. In the depiction after He had the servants fill the large purification jars with water, He asked everyone to leave. He put one of His hands on the lip of the jar and…
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God’s Timing
I’m wrestling of late with the understanding of God’s timing. He’s been leading me gently and consistently to embrace patience. I’m not a patient person. I want answers now; solutions now; understanding now. When bad things happen in the world as they are with increasing frenzy or individual people are facing life threatening diseases, I…