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Mar 02 2024

A Tour of a Secret Garden

  • 03/02/2024

Simple expressions of love have rippling effects, and even in a “garden enclosed,” life is powerful. It is organic. It can’t help but overflow walls, spread to remote places, and ultimately win even the hardest of hearts.

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Feb 08 2024

An Absolute Captivation by T. Austin-Sparks

  • 02/08/2024

I wonder, dear friends, what you covet and pray for more than anything else. For my own part, my coveting, my praying is more than for anything else, a fresh and mighty captivation of the Lord Jesus, a captivation of Christ. Oh, it is quite true, and we know it, that He is our Life, He is our Savior, He is so much to us and we are right when we say that we could not live without Him. And yet, is there not some margin between that and what I am calling an absolute captivation with Christ?

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Jan 29 2024

Journey of Tears

  • 01/29/2024

Henna En Gedi Meme Song 1:14

This is a poem I was made to recently revisit in a surprising “this-is-the-Lord” sort of way. It doesn’t rhyme, but hopefully the progression comes through. Henna, or Camphire, is a plant metaphor I wrote about a few years back, one that grows in a desert oasis (David fled to one for protection from Saul). …

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Jan 25 2024

Upping the Torch Flame

  • 01/25/2024

Hi Friends and Readers,

A turtle on the way to a finish line once said, “Slow and steady wins the race.” It’s also what I keep repeating as a book project drags on. As for a prediction of when I’ll cross the line…Nah. I’m learning my ‘depth perception’ isn’t always the same as God’s!

Meanwhile, …

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