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God’s Faithful Love

In his faithful love he promises to rebuild us, to repair what we have torn with our own two hands. He cleans our filthy wounds encrusted with the blood guilt of our rebellion. He gives us back our dead, restores what the moth has eaten. He transforms our dry deserts into fruitful gardens. He breaks our chains, clothes us, and calls us his own. He brings us home and fills our hungry souls with what is good. This is the faithful love of our Lord.

Rescued from Darkness | Prayer to be More Like Christ

Without your intervention, we walk in the futility of our own minds, our understanding darkened. Like blind men we grope. Don’t allow us to be excluded from the life of God because of our stubborn ignorance, because of the hardness of our hearts …

In His Image | Prayer to Live for God’s Glory

Don’t let us squander this brief life. Don’t let us choose the wide path that leads to a closed door. But help us walk the narrow way leading to the open door, to life everlasting.

When God Punishes You | Psalm 38

When you find yourself in a heap of trouble and you know you’re innocent, you can easily call out to God for help. But when you suspect you might be the cause of your own trouble, or worse, that God himself is disciplining you, how do you respond?

Come Out of Hiding | Prayer for Truth

Without your Spirit, there is no fear of God before our eyes. We flatter ourselves in our own light, and that light is darkness. Concerning the discovery of our sin and the hatred of it, we lie to you and to ourselves. We see ourselves through rose colored glasses.

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Picasso Tete d'une Femme Lisant (Head of a Woman Reading)
sun and moon acrylic painting
Gustav Klimt, Rendition of Stoclet Frieze Expectation, crop
Gustav Klimt, Rendition of Stoclet Frieze Expectation
gustav klimt mother and child
gustav klimt mother and child
Gustav Klimt, Rendition of Family
Gustav Klimt, Rendition of Family
gustav klimt mother and child
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mixed media collage
deep sea painting (acrylic on wood)
Masquerade: Art Journal Page, mixed media collage
Masquerade: Art Journal Page
deep sea painting (acrylic on wood)
pencil sketch eye
Chalkboard lettering
Chalkboard calligraphy
deep sea painting (acrylic on wood)
acrylic on milk can
gustav klimt mother and child
acrylic on milk can
Psalm 16: art journal lettering and doodle
Picasso's Tete d’une Femme Lisant (Head of a Woman Reading): Rendition in black and white
Picasso’s Tete d’une Femme Lisant (Head of a Woman Reading): Rendition in black and white
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Gustav Klimt, Rendition of Stoclet Frieze Expectation
Gustav Klimt, Rendition of Stoclet Frieze Expectation
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ink art calligraphy
pencil sketch eye
underwater scene painted on a rock
art journal lettering: Psalm 126
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More Grace for the Good Girl

I’m linking up with everyone on where we’re reading Grace for the Good Girl together. I just realized I’ve actually been writing about Grace for the Good Girl all along. In fact, I started this blog as an experiment in risk taking — putting myself and my stuff out there, ad hoc, unplanned, and scary […]

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Sisters

This was first posted last summer, but I couldn’t find it anywhere on my blog. Since my sister shows up a lot in my posts, and I have some upcoming posts inspired by her recent visit, I thought I’d repost this “intro” to one of my most favorite people in the world. A gun and […]

God Doesn’t Need My Money

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1 Samuel 1:27-28

Stories

Abram & Sarai | The Big Idea: Part 1

Then the sun dropped behind the horizon, and in the darkness Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses. The Lord himself was making a covenant with Abram that day.

The Walking Dead | Adam & Eve: Part 2

The woman he loved had her arm outstretched. She was offering him the fruit, the juice still dripping down her chin. The man watched himself take a bite.

We Were Kind of Hoping They’d Just Go Home

This part of being with Jesus can be exasperating. It’s like you never have a quiet moment. At times I want to shut it all out, go into a dark cave and just forget about all that need pushing its way into my personal space.

Degrees of Separation

I watch the monster who is me pressing the blade into my brother’s flesh until his blood runs hot over my own flesh. I see my brother’s face, the shadow passing over it when he realizes what I’m about to do. I rewind and see him running towards me from across the field. He is just within arm’s reach. I can choose to embrace him, but instead I pull my knife from its sheath.

Sarah and Abraham | Deja Vu All Over Again: Part 1

He was not a coward. No, not in many things. But he had an irrational fear, a foreboding almost, that someone might kill him to get at Sarah.

The Empty Altar | The Sacrifice of Isaac: Part 3

“We have the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

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Eats

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Crunchy French Toast

kombucha and SCOBY

How to Make Your Own Kombucha Tea

green vanilla smoothie with baby spinach and pecans

Green Maple Vanilla Smoothie

Martha Stewart's peanut butter sandwich cookies

Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

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chicken sausage gyro with greek salad and naan without yeast

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pumpkin pull apart bread

Pumpkin Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread

fish tacos for dinner

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Dark Chocolate Wafer Cookies

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