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Praying the Word: A Psalm 37 Reflection
Praying the Word is profoundly impactful, as can be seen through this personal exploration of Psalm 37. Scripture is a guiding light during tumultuous periods. Praying the Word is a source of strength. It offers solace, opens the way for forgiveness, and ushers in inner peace. Read more for a practical application of Biblical wisdom…
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Winter Solstice
Life moves on from the days of our worst pain and greatest joys. The real test is living in the moment. We grapple with the past and prepare for the future, but making the most of the moments in between is what is most priceless.
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Active Healing: Overwrite Painful Memories with Joyful Ones
When I was a teenager, my dad took me back to swim in the same river where I had recently nearly drowned (a frightening event from which he had saved me). He told me that if I didn’t face my fear and get back in the water, I’d never get back in the water for
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An introvert’s prayer
Many were unaware of the little-known prayer uttered by Jabez in the Old Testament of the Bible. That is until Bruce Wilkerson published the book, The Prayer of Jabez some years ago. It was an international bestseller, drawing both praise and criticism, as things in the spotlight do. I read the book and was fascinated
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Samson & Delilah: A lesson for breaking self-destructive patterns
It is human to read Samson’s story and think we would never have fallen into such traps. However, if we were less judgmental and more introspective, we might see a similarity between Samson’s faulty placement of trust and our own decisions.
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More than a Hallelujah
When I was younger, I couldn’t have imagined the hardships I would face in the future. Each time it felt like my world had come crashing down. Faced with those mountains, I couldn’t picture life ever being normal again. Through the death of a child, I gained the hope of heaven, knowing that one day
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Hidden Treasures
In the movies you sometimes see a wise older person give a child something that seems of no value and tells them to hold on to it for a time when they will need it. Years may go by, then suddenly the child finds themself in a situation and remembers the gift, pulls it out,…
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Envy
There is an almost imperceptible ledge that takes one from admiration to envy. I believe that every ‘don’t’ in the Bible is for our benefit. The command to ‘not covet’, and the warning to not be envious, are there to protect us from being eaten from the inside out with desire for what other people…
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Take, eat, and drink
Remembering Jesus through Communion has a simple, but profound message: Jesus bled and died for our sins, and He rose again, ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father, and will one day return. Every time we eat the Communion bread and drink the Communion juice, we proclaim the Lord’s death…
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Time to Listen Up
Just as a parent changes the way they speak to a child as they grow, the Holy Spirit may choose different ways to speak with you as you mature from being a spiritual baby. Imagine if a growing child tells their parent to only speak to them in baby talk not matter how old they…
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Summoned
If it had been left up to me to decide what to do with the rest of my life, I would have chosen to spend it in that land we call The Jewel; but when I became a Christian, I walked into a different way of living, a different purpose, and made daily choices to…
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New Friends
Based on what we know and have experienced of God’s character, we can choose daily to walk in faith, trust, and hope – to trust Him with our new adventures and new seasons – and yes, with the new people He will bring into our lives and with the new way of doing things.
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Why you need to Sabbath
ometimes on the Sabbath you will spend time in the Word and in worship, but sometimes you don’t. You worship God by resting, by allowing the things that feed you to feed you. Usually you will come to Sabbath exhausted and drained from the week you’ve had, and you use the day to rest my…
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Prepared and ready
As with anything, getting to a place where you can recognize truth when you hear it in prophecies and prophesying is a journey. It is a process of learning to hear the Holy Spirit clearly, instead of hearing what you want to hear. It is a matter of tuning in to Him, paying attention to…
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My ability to fail – A testimony
Vulnerability is required for there to be an acknowledgement of personal failure. God does His best work in us when our walls are down in our relationship with Him.
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A call back to simplicity
Not only did I need to write this for myself, but also for those of you who read what I write. It’s not that I owe you an explanation, but it feels right that I give you one. You’ve read me as I’ve meandered through this desert in the last few years, and you may…
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You hungry?
There is abundant grace and mercy from the Father for everything we have to learn – and that is the most beautiful gift. We do our part by choosing obedience to what we know the Father is asking of us, and He does His part by doing the supernatural work that we can’t do.
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Let me see those roots
With the naive attitude of the young, I brushed off what had happened to her, thinking that it couldn’t happen to me. I continued the heart-first rush into a new life, and put her words totally behind me. I buried them as inconsequential – but they weren’t. By stepping into that life, I stepped into…
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Let it go
The reality is, that thing you are holding on that doesn’t belong to you in first place, is like dust. The winds of time will blow it away from out of your hands. You can choose to stand there with clenched fists, angry and bitter that you’ve lost that which was never yours to begin…
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The original fashion designer
New Year resolutions aren’t for me anymore, because the longer I’ve been a Christian, the more I’ve learned that at the prompting of the Holy Spirit a person can change longstanding habits and viewpoints at any time during the year.
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A note from a reluctant faster
You’d be surprised at how the body adapts; I know I was. It appears to be happy for whatever break we give it: whether from meat, bread, rice, potatoes, sugar, dairy, eggs. The dangerous playground is actually the mind and all the senses. We are Belizean, and we still have our big meal of the…
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Flash! – The Pride of Barbados
For years, I was haunted by a sense of déjà vu whenever my eye would catch a certain shade of red, orange, or yellow. I say haunted, because something about them hinted at a previous experience maybe to be repeated in the future. It was a state of mind, an altered consciousness. I would close
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