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Photo courtesy of the author’s husband, January 2026. The wind continues to howl through the trees and houses. It has gusted for over four days now, bringing with it drastically swinging temperatures and bouts of downpour rain. “In like a lion, out like a lamb”? It reminds me of the turbulence of life: The intense…
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How often do disruptions in our routine or planned schedule cause great irritation, even bitterness, in us? I know for me, it’s often. But 1 Corinthians has something to tell me about that feeling of irritation…
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We call God our “good, good Father”. But how do we think about Him as our Father? Do we accurately understand His heart for us?
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As God often seems to do, He likes to use the unforeseen and even trite things to speak a deeper message. This morning during my Bible and prayer time, I was drawing a word picture in my Bible journal of a coffee mug, filled with some liquid, steam tendriling off the top in graceful swirls.…
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A prayer The human experience is full of creation, and destruction. Of being made and remade. Of creating life and destroying it. Our words are spades, molding the soil in nourishing ways around just-sprung sprouts. So too are our words swords: slashing and mawing out all the delicate beauty of life we had sown.God, make…
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There is a tension we live with between dark and light, hope and despair. Sometimes, it is an especially painful schism.
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Where is our hope? It isn’t in this world’s fleeting beauty- yet this beauty, transient as it is, draws us to the eternal. It draws us to explore, learn, and pursue the heart of our Creator. It draws us to worship Him.
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Have you ever seen a partner dance? One of those beautiful dances where the man and woman’s movements flow together, their bodies like a single living organism creating something new from what they were before the dance? These dances can move us to tears. They fill us with this sense of awe and a feeling…
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If everything God created is good and was perfect , that means us too. For me, thinking that I am “created perfect” hits a nerve somewhere deep inside me. It makes me squirm. How can I be perfect? How can I be so beautiful- not solely the physical kind of beauty, but the deeper kind?
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I’m Allison
I am a 20-something Christian woman living in the northern Midwest. I am energized by hikes in the woods, finding poetry in ordinary life, and learning about my Creator and His world. I write what’s on my heart- usually snacking on dark chocolate while I do so.
I hope what I share here will be a small spark of courage and rejuvenation for your own heart!
” The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
John 1:5
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