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In the middle

How can you work with God in the space between perception and action to shed what’s toxic and bring life to yourself and those around you?

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Big deal

Our acknowledgment of God’s presence within us, loving, comforting, encouraging, informing is the match to the flame.

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God’s not forgetting

We are mistaken if we look for God only in the removal of suffering. God is there, here, in the midst of suffering!

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All things betray…

How does God provide what a parent does not?

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Magdalene

What might have happened if Mary hadn’t accepted Jesus’ healing, if she had refused to do the work necessary to become a resilient, strong, healed woman?

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In that moment…

Help me to be fierce in my commitment to keep my past from harming my present.

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When memory comes

Dealing with memory gives us the opportunity to live our lives more authentically and more in control.

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Pigs or heroes?

God takes suffering and brings from it incredible beauty, strength, resolve, and wonder. James Cone knew this. Sojourner Truth knew this. Harriet Tubman knew this. We all know this. It is written within us (cf Genesis 1:27). We have no excuse but to be heroes.

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Stop

A glimpse of God, just a glimpse, has this effect — you stumble back because of the profound realization that everything fits and everything is okay.

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What do you know?

What you know is within you by the hand of God. It’s God’s image within you, put there before you were born, just waiting to be realized and put into action.

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The force of God

When we put ourselves, open and vulnerable, in God’s presence, something will happen, and that something will have the force of God.

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Pondering God

Spend time pondering God. Listen! Discern! Expect to receive. You will not come away unchanged.

Beneath the juniper…