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09 Aug 2013

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, but must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller

The prosecutor of your soul can’t ever nail you: Time can’t wreck your life. You can’t wreck your life. Nothing in all of this world can separate you from the love of Christ and His love is your life. Your life is unwreckable because Christ’s love is unstoppable.
– Ann Voskamp
www.aholyexperience.com

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Grace is surely amazing
Everyone’s life is unwreckable
because Christ’s love is unstoppable
I love these lovely words.
I adore these grand thoughts.
What a fabulous trade off.
I had no real idea,
that to accept this invitation,
is to give up,
my selfish desires,
my ego,
my broken heart,
my unbearable pain.

For this life changing
love,
grace,
freedom,
healing.
It is stepping into
an ever deepening mystery,
the adventure of a lifetime,
wisdom and beauty unknown,
this wild pool of faith.
I have gotten so much more than I could ever have imagined!
I got it all!
life and life abundantly
grace that is greater
than I’ll ever be able to fully comprehend.

AL 8/8/13

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08 Aug 2013
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faith in Jesus is not an argument to be won, it is an invitation into life changing grace, into life changing love

if grace is an ocean we’re all sinking
– John Mark Mc Millan (How He Loves)

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Good news becomes bad news when it is announced without peace and joy.  Anyone who proclaims the forgiving and healing love of Jesus with a bitter heart is a false witness.  Jesus is the savior of the world.  We are not.  We are called to witness, always with our lives and sometimes with our words, to the great things God has done for us.  But this witness must come from a heart that is willing to give without getting anything in return.

The more we trust in God’s unconditional love for us, the more able we will be to proclaim the love of Jesus without any inner or outer conditions.                                                        – Henri Nouwen

www.henrinouwen.org

I am currently reading Paul Zahl’s book Grace in Practice and it is rockin’ my world!!! Highly recommend it! Available on Amazon

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07 Aug 2013
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no rainbows or flowers without a little…

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06 Aug 2013

some days this is all you can do…

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05 Aug 2013

joy dare

She whispers it, “God does loves us, doesn’t He, Mama?”

And I nod and this is always the question and maybe this is all our faith really is — Faith is this unwavering trust in the heart of God in the hurt of here. Unwavering trust all the time though I don’t understand all the time.

God is always good and we are always loved.

Loved enough to be shaped into goodness of Christ Himself.
– Ann Voskamp
A Holy Experience
http://www.aholyexperience.com

Follow this link to find out more about Ann Voskamp and take the Joy Dare! Free monthly printables available. http://www.aholyexperience.com/joy-dares/

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04 Aug 2013
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be…loved…

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03 Aug 2013

The Quiet Power

I walked backwards, against time
and that’s where I caught the moon,
singing at me.

I stepped downwards, into my seat
and that’s where I caught freedom,
waiting for me, like a lilac.

I ended thought, and I ended story.
I stopped designing, and arguing, and
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I didn’t die. I didn’t turn to dust.

Instead I chopped vegetables,
and made a calm lake in me
where the water was clear and sourced and still.

And when the ones I loved came to it,
I had something to give them, and
it offered them a soft road out of pain.

I became beloved.

And I came to know that this was it.
The quiet power.
I could give something mighty, lasting,
that stopped the wheel of chaos,

by tending to the river inside,
keeping the water rich and deep,
keeping a bench for you to visit.

Tara Mohr
www.taramohr.com
twitter: @tarasophia
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02 Aug 2013

the purpose of love is to create trust in good

– Mary Baker Eddy

Mostly I want to be kind,

and nobody, of course,

is kind,

or mean,

for a simple reason.

Mary Oliver

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and the day I found
the words of Mary Oliver
my heart,
my soul,
my body,
& my mind,
all said,
AHHHHHH
together,
in four part harmony,
a veritable symphony;
where every note brings joy
and satisfaction
in the depths.

al 8/1/13

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01 Aug 2013

the best gifts are always on the bottom shelf – Ann Voskamp

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