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What God’s Awesome Grace Can Do: Here’s My Testimony
My grace story is my testimony. It’s a testimony of what Jesus can do, how He can take someone’s mess and turn it into a beautiful message. It’s a message of radical love and radical empathy. My life has been made up of a million little testimonies. I just didn’t acknowledge God in them throughout my whole life. Instead, I chalked them up to a million little coincidences and brushed them off. But the closer I get to Him, the more He opens my eyes to His presence. This was a rescue I didn’t deserve. I loved Jesus at a young…
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The Artist’s Showcase: Christ in Us, a beautiful glimpse into Eternity
How does God use art to display Christ in us? Eternity? That’s what God put on my heart recently. Photography is something I just love. It’s exciting to play with light and angles, to experiment, create scenes, or to capture candid photos at the right moment– to capture a moment in time and preserve it. And when someone orders a print from me, it’s almost as if I’m gifting someone a piece of history; I’m giving someone a still frame of their life. We recently had an amazing pottery demonstration at my church. Before everything began, I was sitting in…
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We are God’s amazing poetry: how God repurposes what we yield
In our last post, we talked about God the ultimate Creator, about His creativity and ours. This week, I want to talk about God the Author and how He naturally repurposes our past in His writing of our lives from beginning to end. Isn’t He just the most amazing all-encompassing artist? Seriously… I love poetry. Some will say it’s an acquired taste, or they don’t get it, or it’s “boring.” And I understand all of that. But years of reading and writing it has given me an appreciation for this art form. It essentially takes emotion, circumstances, images, or ideas,…
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Wisdom plus creativity: what is God’s purpose for your gift?
What’s God’s purpose for me? It’s a BIG question. But, God is big. And I believe God likes questions, and I believe He takes pleasure in answering ours– on His time. I feel like I’ve been asking this a lot lately, which is why I want to write about it. I was recently asked what my passion was. The initial answer that popped into my head was writing, but when I took a few seconds, I said the whole truth: “To make things; to create.” I think a more accurate question to represent our whole question would be, What’s God’s…
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What happens when we radiate like Moses: our first love testimonies
Testimonies are what I call love stories. What better time than the same month of Valentines Day falls, to talk about their power. As Christians, Valentines Day takes on a whole new meaning. In light of Valentine’s Day– a day dedicated to celebrating love– I started thinking about the different “loves” I’ve had throughout my lifetime: boyfriends, best friends, family members, family pets, the blossoming love story between me and my Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru order… But, a few weeks ago while driving home from a church meeting, in the midst of the cold, dark highway, flecks of white snow dotting…