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Month: January 2019

How We Tell Our Story

January 19, 2019January 18, 2019 ~ pursuedby ~ Leave a comment

Our brokenness will draw attention, but our healing is designed to be a witness bearer for Jesus.

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{Emotions} “Wake me up from my slumber, oh God, take these shaking hands and hold them still.” . I know I can obey without feeling like it; I know I can choose to do what God has called me to in the day to day; I know I can find nearness in Him and help from him; I know He will and is pursuing me with great faithful love. And yet all I’ve been asking Him is to help me FEEL like doing all these things again. Not, “help me obey”, not, “let your strength be shown in my weakness of not feeling,” not, “let me see your glory that I may worship you.” Instead, I’ve somehow, yet again, separated what I know to be true with what I am willing to ask Him to do . “Wake me up to Your glory, oh God. Draw my eyes to Yours, where my help comes from” . What I was asking is not wrong, but I need something deeper, I need something greater, I need something more. I need to be willing to ask to see His glory. I need to be willing to ask to draw my eyes to Him, because when I see Him, I have more than I need. God very much cares about our emotions, He created them, each one of them—Not to be used as a weapon or an excuse, but to worship Him with, to glorify Him with, to love Him greater with . So this morning, waking up from my slumber was about the disconnect between my head and my heart. Recognizing that I need to be asking God for greater things—it may have taken months, but beginning with “wake me up to your glory,” IS WHERE I NEED TO START. And those emotions I want to feel? Desire, encouragement, love, gladness, peace—they will come when I begin with Him and stop trying to begin with me. For now, it’s a wrestling to begin asking this each morning, each hour some days, but God is near, and He is + will keep pursuing me with His faithful love—that’s how He steadfastly feels for me. “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lam 3:22-23 . . #beholdingandbecomingbook #bb32days #seejesus #instagramforchrist #illumewomen #amwriting #hopewriter lyrics by: @iamtheyband Over and Over Again

A Merry Yosemite Christmas from us to you + all the classic tears and tantrums from the 2 year old. ***BONUS to doing babies for the second time around? We’ve learned to truly laugh at these moments instead of being frustrated.

This is 7 months. A few days late, first tooth popped thru, baby food smeared all over the jammies he’s been in since yesterday, and smiles as big as can be. YOU ARE SO LOVED TY. Your future is still UNKNOWN. But you are WHOLLY LOVED. #thisisfostercare

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