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the NEXT RIGHT THING:
Emily P. Freeman

5. Look for Arrows

Logic & limits often get in the way of longing. And longing is key to our growth.
... This awakening didn't come like a glorious sunrise or a blooming flower. Instead, it arrived more like a summer storm: dark clouds, thick air, rolling thunder. Here is where we learned that desire often ( Read more... )

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Lean not on your own understanding.

Trust: giving God control over our lives
- passive?  - facedown?  - act of surrender?

◘  Trust is active
◘  Trust requires obedience Job
- - that God's commands are trustworthy

→  Is it possible to fully trust, fully relinquish
           control in this life, in this world?

Questioning God - Gideon ( ( Read more... )

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" In him all things hold together. "

A sense of unease hovering around ... due to work,
my sector, the unknown (the UK economy; March 29th...)

Act / Wait ?
Wait / Act ?

' " At least I'm doing something", says psychologist Therese Huston, author of How Women Decide. Though it is uncomfortable to sit with my stress rather than do something, I ( Read more... )

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1 Samuel pivots around a decision God's people take:
- having lived through the ages of judges,the Israelites now desire to have a king over them.
- a complicated issue: 1) the judges have failed them

2) wanting to be like the other nations - effectively turning their back on God

Samuel, the prophet, rails against them - this is a really bad ( Read more... )

Hebrews 11 ... Genesis 22

Heb 11  v. 17:
Situation in apparent opposition to God’s promise to Abraham

By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” ( Read more... )

4 years
72 applications
22 interviews
2 continents
10 employers
6 missed weddings

.... finally, now: the longest contract I've ever had!

Excited, happy & grateful. ღ


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To look back but a year.   ("Yes."  "No."  "Not yet.")

He may baffle us sometimes with it
                                                         but still, move he does.


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Vez, this is for you ...
Read, study & abide again. x

My Child...

You may not know me, but I know everything about you.
I know when you sit down and when you rise up.
I am familiar with all your ways.

Even the very hairs on your head are numbered.
For you were made in my image.
In me you live and move and have your being ( Read more... )