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Jesus you have won me! Because you are, I can be! I am hidden and safe in you! I am restored to innocence in you! Because you have always been and always will be ‘I Am’; I am also! My reality does not exist apart from You, Your Father and Holy Spirit

Contagious: communicable by contact, catching, exciting similar emotions or conduct (i.e. your enthusiasm is contagious)
Will those I come in contact with today catch love from me? Will my presence be communicable with love? Will my loving character e

“Though being in the form of God, equality with God He did not count a prize to seize. Rather, He emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness. And found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient to death, de

One of our greatest challenges and responsibilities is the care of our own heart. Why? Our heart is the core of our identity and our being. More important, it is the dwelling place of Jesus. Therefore, our heart should be well tended and guarded.
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Nurtured by Courage
“What times I am afraid, I will trust in God.” That seems to be more often than not, in these days. Much of what fuels the cultures of our world systems is fear. Entire economic strategies succeed or fail, based largely on fear. Me

Listen—What Do You Hear?
“To be at ease is to be unsafe.” When one is not listening; one is at ease and is not awakening. Awakening to what? “Sanctify them in the truth, Thy Word is truth.” John 17:17 Whatever Jesus has to say about any and every thin

Following are some words from Papa’s heart that are imperative if we are to make it through these difficult days. When received, they will strengthen you for whatever the journey has for you. All of creation is groaning for the sons and daughters of

Brennan Manning loved to refer to the Gospel as the Ragamuffin Gospel. I always liked that. Here’s why. I didn’t come to Jesus with any piety or with the veil of religious performance. I was completely surprised when I encountered Jesus. He was total

Wrong questions are the breeding ground of doubt, despair and unbelief. I know; I've asked the wrong questions for almost sixty-two years. But, in the midst of those questions mercy, grace, atonement and the answer burst its way into my darkened ques

The struggle of the centuries has been to free the soul from narrow interpretations and distorted perception.

For example: “The world is still waiting to see Jesus as He is: Jesus the magnificent, Jesus the giant, Jesus the compassionate, and Jesus th

Listen—What Do You Hear?

“To be at ease is to be unsafe.” Pope John XXIII When one is not listening; one is at ease and is not awakening. Awakening to what? “Sanctify them in the truth, Thy Word is truth.” John 17:17 Whatever Jesus has to say about an

2012 is a year pregnant with Hope and anticipation! Yet, at the same time many of us are fighting horrific battles. Battles we often did not knowingly invite or were thrust into at the choice and hand of others. Nevertheless, they are our battles to

Nurtured by Heaven’s Embrace

Indulge your ‘inner person’ for a moment of reflection and hopeful fresh revelation. We are so quick to ‘indulge’ our ‘outer person’. You know that extra brownie, and five more minutes under the warm covers on a cold winte

Reconciliation in the ICU

This is a very recent and true story from a dear friend…

My dad had a brain aneurysm a few days ago, and here is an update. They think it was a vein and not an artery, but haven't confirmed that yet.  They are doing another an

Nurtured by Heart Lessons

"Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart;
I will glorify your name forever.
For great is your l

Nurtured by Expressing Love

How then should we love one another? It’s not that we don’t know we are called to love, it’s that most had very little “love modeling” to follow. We simply weren’t taught or nurtured by love. It wasn’t expressed to us or wo