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Where to run when life gets messy

Post author:Carolyn Watts
Post published:November 16, 2020
Post category:God's character God's faithfulness God's love grace living mess
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I’ve spent a week running with David for his life, watching where he has run and how he has encountered God in it. And at the end of the week, I'm…

How to find hope in emptiness

Post author:Carolyn Watts
Post published:November 9, 2020
Post category:creation cross emptiness God's character living longing redemption suffering transformation truth weakness
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It’s early when I walk past the playground, and the swings hang empty, waiting. No one plays on the slide. There’s a stillness here that could just be the calm…

Good News for Burden Bearers

Post author:Carolyn Watts
Post published:October 19, 2020
Post category:dependence God's character God's faithfulness God's love held living
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We all start life carried—a few pounds of humanity borne within the body of another. And our current life depends on God's loving willingness to bear us since then (Isaiah…

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