Author: molly706
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Make hay while the sun shines
We all have dreams of things we’d like to accomplish: places we’d like to go, maybe a book we want to write, or a landscape to paint, or a course we want to take, or well, you get the idea. There could be things that would help someone: work in a charity shop once a…
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More Than Just Talk
In spending time with a woman who is in the last stages of cancer, I have had an opportunity to reflect. We sit together in a quiet room, curtains drawn to protect her from the sunlight, she in her chair, I in mine, and a coffee table between us. Although she is awake, her eyes…
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Redemption and the Road Ahead
In our modern evangelical, evangelistic vocabulary, the key word is “saved”, to get saved, to be saved. You hear it a lot. It’s like… we were drowning, in a burning house, or being attacked by a bear, and someone came in and rescued us — we were saved, WHEW. Theologically, we were trapped and steeped…
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A Greater Deep
Walking by the sea is supposed to be good for your health. It is not just the walking, which we know is healthful, but also the sea air, the minerals and salts that the wind carries in along the coastline. Breathing them clears the mind and the lungs. The rhythm of the waves coming and…
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From Shelter to Home
We sometimes sing a hymn that says: God is “Our shelter from the stormy blast And our eternal home.” That may come as a surprise to someone who has a concept of God as a distant, austere accountant or judge, but it is not uncommon in the Bible. Listen to these Old Testament words picturing…
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Outside the March of Time
Time keeps going at a steady, unrelenting pace. And that pace is heightened because we fill it with activities, with duties, work that must be done, people to be seen, and with the structures of hours, days, weeks and months. Seasons come and go. The beautiful autumn colors fade and fall into to dark winter…
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You Have Incredible Value – Part 2
In my last blog, “You have incredible value”, I outlined God’s role in our own personal creation, using the verse from Psalm 139 that we were knit together in our mother’s womb. He did not have to knit our physical being because he created reproduction processes into every kind of living being. Instead, God knit…
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You Have Incredible Value
You have unbelievable worth. Why unbelievable? Because most of us do not / cannot believe it. We are Christians. We are afraid of thinking about our value for fear of pride. We quote the scripture that we are “sinners, saved by grace” to be humble. It reminds us that we are “unworthy sinners”. We think…
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Free to Create
Several years ago, I experienced a renewal in my life with God. It was a remarkable, refreshing encounter that sent me scrambling for new ways to express what I was finding in Scripture and in my heart. I never considered myself to be artistic: I had creative impulses but not the sort worth sharing with…
Molly Deatherage 