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kelliwoodford
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12 years ago @ Lisa notes... - Dirt under your finger... · 1 reply · +1 points
love your angle on it, Lisa. thank you!
My recent post Brave Words: You are my Sister.
12 years ago @ Lisa notes... - When shame stings · 1 reply · +1 points
I *totally* relate to the shame of being a woman. And I will tell you the thing that is saving me lately is one little question I've got in bold letters on the white board in my kitchen:
What's naming you?
These things have a way of creeping in to the place of naming/identifying you, but like you said (so well!), I can choose to find myself in the fact that I am loved. That I am free. That I am paid for. That I am HIS.
Amen, friend. The refuge has never been sweeter.
My recent post and we are fed
13 years ago @ http://expectinghope.b... - have mercy · 1 reply · +1 points
light and shadows always coexist, don't they?
blessings on your week.
13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - Prime your heart &ndas... · 1 reply · +1 points
This was beautiful. Thank you.
13 years ago @ http://expectinghope.b... - mother’s day and... · 1 reply · +1 points
You don't know how this ministers to me . . . my birth-mother heart.
And what you said about hard things? Oh, this is medicinal. Doesn't always taste good going down, but it brings healing. Very well said.
So blessed to have stopped over from Ann's today.
13 years ago @ http://upthesunbeam.bl... - The Stories Among Us · 1 reply · +2 points
What a lot of good story-telling we miss when we're in too big a hurry to see it.
Great descriptive post.
Bless you!
My recent post A Story of Brotherhood
13 years ago @ http://upthesunbeam.bl... - The Real Deal · 1 reply · +2 points
A friend mentioned this very topic to me recently and coined a new phrase I have been tossing around in my mind. She said we need to give each other "liberty to learn". Isn't that just it??
If we're honest, we know we've all fallen off more times than we can count, but can we give each other space and grace? Can we allow for someone else's imperfections to show and not flip out --remembering that our own poke through sometimes, as well?
I think this may be one of the reasons for the masks. We feel so vulnerable, thinking we'll be kicked while we're down.
But if we purpose *just for me, just for today* to become a safe place for someone else . . . oh, what a breath of fresh air.
For the giver AND the receiver. Grace for grace.
Thanks for an excellent illustration!
My recent post The End from the Beginning
13 years ago @ http://www.thesaturday... - Elmo's Favorite Food ~... · 0 replies · +1 points
And beautiful, too!
Thanks!
13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - A people of the Book? · 1 reply · +1 points
I totally identify with your short testimony of wanting to be a "person of the book".
Have murdered with those letters that kill . . . and most of all reaped death, myself.
Just such a sweet focus for coming Resurrection Sunday!!
Thank you.
13 years ago @ The Blazing Center - Hold the Truth Tightly... · 0 replies · +4 points
"Let's not be more exclusive than Jesus was."
Great thought to put at the end . . . one I wish I'd come to much earlier in my journey.
"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free." (Gal. 5:1) -- and isn't it so much more fun to live *setting others free* than strangling them with our passionate opinions, anyway???
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