Empty
I believe that when God created us, He placed within each of our vessels a variety of gifts, callings and possibilities and watched to see how we use them. There are those among us who seem to be able to pick up an oddly shaped box with a complexity of strings attached, and somehow manipulate its components
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“For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” -John 3:16
I’ve heard this verse over and over for years, as I’m sure you have as well. But during a recent Bible Study, I was struck by the word begotten. It means to be sired or to be born of the father’s seed. In essence, it means Jesus was flesh of God’s flesh...
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Mom-hood
I was 19, a freshman in college, with a 5 year old sister, and 9 and 11 year old brothers. I had been burping babies, changing diapers, making formula, potty-training, playing peek-a-boo and carrying kids around on my hip since I was 7 years old. I was tired and didn’t want any more children in my life. Yet here I was, standing across the room from my mother and my “Baby-daddy” , listening to him say how he didn’t want to have to be responsible, just wanted to do what he wanted to do and that’s all. He didn’t feel he was ready to marry me...
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Knowing
It shot me wide awake Monday morning, a voice inside my head loud and clear yelling “Your Liberty comes in knowing who you are!” And I saw that pivotal scene from the end of The Matrix where Neo is fighting the Agents. They’ve already beat him until they thought he was dead, and he thought he was, too. But Trinity quietly whispered words of life into his ear...
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