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Holy Space

ByKaroline July 24, 2020 0 Comments

Let them construct a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell among them. (Exodus 25:8) I love old churches. I love sitting in the wooden pews, breathing in the decades-old scent of incense. I love the hushed silence as people gather together to worship. I love the acoustics when our voices are raised in song or prayer. I love hearing the organ play. I love when the sunlight streams through the...

Do You Love Me?

ByKaroline July 17, 2020 0 Comments

Then he began to call down curses, and he swore to them, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately a rooster crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly. (Matthew 26:74-75) The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus...

Pushing Through

ByKaroline July 10, 2020 0 Comments

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13) As I was heading out for my walk this morning, I felt a pull to go to the park I mentioned in my post Glimpses of God. I really didn't want to go, for all the reasons I mentioned there, on top of the fact that it's in woods so I knew the bugs would be all over. I was right. I had sprayed with natural bug spray but they...

You Know Me

ByKaroline July 4, 2020 0 Comments

You have searched me, Lord,and you know me.You know when I sit and when I rise;you perceive my thoughts from afar.You discern my going out and my lying down;you are familiar with all my ways.Before a word is on my tongueyou, Lord, know it completely.You hem me in behind and before,and you lay your hand upon me.Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,too lofty for me to attain. (Psalm 139:1- 6)...

Glimpses of God

ByKaroline June 25, 2020 0 Comments

It is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O Most High,proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night,to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp.For you make me glad by your deeds, Lord; I sing for joy at what your hands have done.How great are your works, Lord, how profound your thoughts! (Psalm...

I Seek You

ByKaroline June 18, 2020 0 Comments

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you;I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you,in a dry and parched land where there is no water. (Psalm 63:1) Things haven't been easy for me lately. My brain has been whirling around and around. I find it hard to focus on work or sit still so I've started walking and hiking. I hit...

Slow to Anger

ByKaroline June 7, 2020 0 Comments

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. (1 James 19-20) This past week my social media feed has been filled with post after post after post about the violence committed by the police at protests. I was filled with rage - to see the police...

Broken and Doubting

ByKaroline May 28, 2020 0 Comments

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where...

Love One Another

ByKaroline April 17, 2020 0 Comments

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning...

If You Had Been Here

ByKaroline April 4, 2020 0 Comments

“Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.” (John 11:21-22) Last week's Gospel verse was the story of Lazarus. Jesus gets word that Lazarus is sick but does not go to where he lives until after he has died. As Jesus is walking back to Judea to raise Lazarus from death, He runs...

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