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Weekly glimpses of God’s heart

When You Need God’s Gentle Mother-Love

If you’ve been around here for long, or have read my book, you know that God met me in my long post-Afghanistan journey of loss and grace through showing me his love in all the roles in the birth drama. As I wrote in Risking Rest, “God’s love is so

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When You Need to Know You’re Precious to God

As I write, I’m sitting by the little waterfall in my parents’ backyard, savoring the soothing sounds of falling water and the bees’ gentle buzz as they move from one mauve hosta trumpet to another. I marvel how freely, how fearlessly, they press themselves headfirst all the way into that

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This Verb Might Change the Way You Pray

“In the beginning,” John writes. It’s a bit like, “Once upon a time”: a good beginning for a very good story. As we might expect, John’s words echo the beginning of Genesis, the earlier story of the world’s beginnings. In John’s retelling, though, the focus is different. It’s on a

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