Shifting Perspective on Priorities
What if shifting perspective on priorities created more time in your day? Learning to break free from the everyday rut is possible.
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Donna Bucher
May Musings: Share Four Somethings
Easing the shock of yet another month all but concluded, May Musings: Share Four Somethings allows me a glance back at my blessings.
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What Hope Looks Like
This challenge both inspired and enlightened me while exploring what Hope looks like through photographs captured in my daily interactions.
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Dancing with a Limp
Learning in the process, some wounds fail to heal completely. Yet I can still find Joy in life as I embrace dancing with a limp.
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Trusting God While Sowing in Tears
Navigating this current time period between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day often yields bittersweet emotions. Feelings of regret and failure dominate even the best parent-child relationships. While doubt and despair cripple those loving prodigals. Trusting God while sowing in tears may be one of the most difficult seasons parents endure.
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Reflecting the Creator’s Beauty
Reflecting the Creator’s beauty, the intricacies of individual flowers amaze me with new facets of God’s glory.
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Surrender As the Pathway to Healing
Recently sharing with a friend, I learned a valuable lesson about surrender as the pathway to healing through my nine-month-old dog, Shalom.
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April Acceptance: Share Four Somethings
Easing the shock of yet another month all but concluded, April Acceptance: Share Four Somethings allows me a glance back at my blessings.
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Vulnerability as Your Greatest Strength
One thing was common to all conversations, whether “for” or “against”, all failed to imagine vulnerability as your greatest strength.
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The Patience of Hope
Meeting a friend well acquainted with previous cohorts Joy and Resilience, this month took me on a journey through the patience of Hope.
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The Fragrance of Christ
Quietly communing with God, His Presence reduces me to tears. Breathing deep, I inhale the fragrance of Christ into the depths of my soul.
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The Peace of Spiritual Vulnerability
My Lent journey this year yielded a deeper appreciation for confession and a new understanding of the peace of spiritual vulnerability.
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A Heart After God’s Heart
Instead of rebuke, her reply echoed, “Your heaviness stems from the Spirit’s work in your life, as He gives you a heart after God’s heart.”
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Lenten Fruits of Spiritual Renewal
Though a time of serious soul searching, the Lenten fruits of spiritual renewal also bring peace and Joy to a heart which seeks God.
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Hope in the Unseen
The new year brought opportunities for Hope, but with the onset of spring, creation reminded me of the treasure of Hope in the unseen.
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The Blessings of Repentance
The blessings of repentance outweigh the uncomfortable posture of the Holy Spirit searching me for any areas of unconfessed sin.
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The Courage of Confession
Penitence, an integral spiritual discipline of Lent leads to true repentance of the penitent heart, providing the courage of confession.
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The Wilderness of Lent
While the Lenten season holds a form of anticipation, it holds less Joyful anticipation than the Advent season. Recently reflecting on Lent as more of a wilderness experience, I wondered at the difference between the expectancy of Advent and the almost remorseful feeling of the wilderness of Lent.
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Beholding the Limitless Beauty of Christ
Stillness encompassed my heart’s attention in 2022, while this year, my heart is resting in “beholding the limitless beauty of Christ.
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