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just a thought by coppi
“I don’t know about you, but I don’t always feel like a beloved child of God. Life throws us curve-balls and sometimes anxiety gets the best of us. It’s not easy to feel especially loved, safe, or protected when we are facing uncertainty and fear nips at our heels.” “I am weak but Thou…
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Just a thought by Coppi “I choose to trust what I don’t understand to the God who does.” Truly, I have had to say the above quote many times in my life because I do not understand the many goings-on in my surroundings. My mother used to say to us when we would ask about…
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Grace is a gift most of us don’t know how to receive. We’ve been so inundated with the earthly systems of give-and-get and work-and-earn that grace is a concept few ever fully grasp. Yet it’s grace alone that has the power to transform lives. (Craig Denison) “When thinking of what grace is in the Bible,…
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“We think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the trouble we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves…
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For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. Psalms 100:5 NIV The phrase “unfailing love” appears 39 times in the New International Version of the Bible, and all references are to God. The Bible also mentions trust almost 100 times. Unfailing love expresses deep gratitude to a…
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Writing is a process in which we discover what lives in us. The writing itself reveals to us what is alive in us. The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on…
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Just a thought by coppi Mother Teresa said, “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.” Brother Lawrence said, “There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of…
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We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Our primary task in solitude, therefore, is not to pay undue attention to the many faces that assail us, but to keep the eyes of our mind and heart on him who is our divine savior.…
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“Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits— who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things…
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023 F. B. Meyer was right when he said, “The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.” “The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared…
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