How Many Kings?

Follow the star to a place unexpected
Would you believe after all we’ve projected
A child in a manger
Lowly and small, the weakest of all
Unlikeliest hero, wrapped in his mothers shawl
Just a child
Is this who we’ve waited for?
Cause how many kings, stepped down from their thrones?
How many lords have abandoned their homes?
How many [...]

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Precious in His Sight

I have always loved Psalm 45:11…
The King is enthralled by your beauty… – Psalm 45:11
The idea that the Lord would find us beautiful…it just speaks to a woman’s heart.  It definitely speaks to this woman’s heart.  Yet, I know that the beauty the Lord is seeing is not on the outside.  I came across this verse a [...]

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Visit Me…

at Blissfully Domestic, where I am now a monthly contributor.  This is a post from my blog archives but, in the future, there will be new content.

 

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Be Bigger, God

I have been feeling hopeless…and heartsick.  As I type those words I am reminded of a verse in Proverbs.
Delayed hope makes the heart sick… – Proverbs 13:12 HCSB
I have been feeling as if there is nothing anyone can do to change my circumstances.  I find myself feeling defeated…not just for myself, but for others that [...]

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The Whirlwind and The Storm

We have a gutter in our tree.
It’s so high up that we have not been able to remove it…and it has been there since 2005.
There was a tornado that year in our small town that devastated neighborhoods, left families homeless and sent debris flying for miles.  I remember walking through yards and finding photographs and [...]

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Bumper Stickers and Betrayal

I took this picture the other day because I thought….what a ridiculous sticker to put on your car…

Then I thought…No.  Ridiculous would be a pregnant lady kneeling down in a parking garage to take a picture of a bumper sticker on the off chance that she may want to use it in a tweet or [...]

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Mind Your Own Business

Do you ever see someone who has exactly what you have been praying for?
Have you ever looked at someone else’s life and thought…Okay, Lord, what about me?
I remember, in my youthful-and-pitiful-and-desperately-wanting-a-boyfriend days, I was obsessed with a song called Someone Else’s Star.  It’s by an artist who was popular for a season and has now [...]

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The Great Prison Break

Sometimes our situations seem hopeless.  We have done all we can do and the end result seems unchangeable.  I couldn’t help but feel a sense of defeat as I read about Peter in the prison.
We are told in Acts 12 that James had been killed.  This pleased the Jews so greatly that Herod decided to [...]

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Greater Things

Sometimes…I trust God for so little.  I put Him in this little box and imagine that I know what He is capable of or interested in doing.
I was reminded of this as I read in John this morning.  The meeting between Jesus and Nathanael has always made me smile.
Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him [...]

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A Better Attitude

Lord, help me to have a good attitude today.
That was my prayer this morning as I sat in the dark preparing for the day.  The house was quiet and everyone else was still warm and cozy in bed.  And I could feel myself just wanting to have a bad attitude.
I pulled out the daily devotional [...]

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