Some stories stop you in your tracks. Diane Butler Bass’s reflection in The Cottage on a recent event did that for me this week and it opened a door in my heart I didn’t want to walk through but knew I needed to and to write about it.
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Every one of us carries ideas sometimes beautiful, sometimes inherited, sometimes unexamined about what the Creator wants from us. That’s part of being human. But trouble begins when we claim to possess God’s only true intentions for all humanity and then use that claim to reject or exclude others. In those moments, we begin to resemble the very cadre of Pharisees Jesus confronted so sharply.
Continue reading “When We Miss the Point of the Story”
To walk the way of Christ is to step into a path already made holy. Jesus came among us so that “people may walk in innocence,” not by our own strength, but by His presence shaping our hearts from within.
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Deep within each of us lies a hidden design, a sacred blueprint inscribed by God. It whispers who we are and who we are meant to become. Like a seed carrying the promise of a tree, the soul holds the pattern of truth, goodness, and beauty waiting to unfold.
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Christ rising in us is not a distant truth but a living reality, often hidden beneath the noise and busyness of our days. When we pause long enough to notice, when we awaken to the presence of God embracing all things, including us, we find our posture shifting. We begin to desire availability rather than activity, surrender rather than striving.
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One of the hardest truths of the spiritual life is also one of the most beautiful: we are always, in every moment, held in the love of God. Even when life feels chaotic or painful, even when we cannot sense His nearness, God’s wisdom is quietly shaping our days and His strength is available to steady us. Nothing in our lives falls outside the reach of His care.
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Sometimes I think we forget just how expansive God’s dream for the world really is. We shrink it down to the size of our comfort, our circles, our assumptions. But the God revealed in Jesus keeps breaking those boundaries open. His vision is so big, so generous, so overflowing with love that everyone is invited in.
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There is a quiet power in the simple declaration: there is no other God. Not a threat, not a competition, just a truth that steadies the heart. There is no other source of the love that made you. No other well that can satisfy your thirst. No other presence that knows you so completely and still calls you beloved.
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Our life is never something we craft out of thin air. It grows from the seeds God has already planted—quiet desires, holy longings, small awakenings that crack open over time through prayer, self‑awareness, and the slow courage of becoming who we truly are.
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Justice is often imagined as something sharp and demanding, a virtue that draws lines, names wrongs, and insists on truth. But in the spiritual life, justice is also a widening of the heart. It is the virtue that clears space within us so God can dwell more freely.
Continue reading “The Spacious Work of God”
Smitten With Goodness 