Category Archives: Other voices

Enter the Mystery

Enter the Mystery
“It looks like I'm going to have to let go of what I expected and enter a mystery.“ Eugene Peterson I make plans. It’s what I do - lists, preparations, targets, goals. There’s good in that, unless I hang on too tightly. Sometimes I go down a road with certainty and every expectation of my…
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Seasons

Seasons
Are you in a changing season? I just settled my goddaughter in at college out of state. She is beginning a new chapter. My own life will change seasons too and focus on some new (and renewed) areas. We all experience these transitions, through loss, growth, and even just the normal milestones of life. I…
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Embracing Mystery

Embracing Mystery
God is the answer. But God does not give all the answers. I used to think that since God is Truth my questions would be satisfied as I studied about Him. I have grown in my understanding of many things as I mature spiritually, but that which I don’t understand has increased even more. He…
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Total Surrender

Total Surrender
I just finished Andrew Murray’s book, “Absolute Surrender.” It left me with a deep desire to experience just that, but without a clear path how to get there. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Surrendering means several different things in our spiritual walk and seems to come in several phases, all of…
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