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Devotional Memoir

Anticipate

Fog hugs the ground as it flows. From the Pacific Ocean. Over mountains.  

Into Marin County.

The year we live there, I anticipate this view. Each morning. As I drive the kids to school. 

Spectacular beauty. 

Anticipate. Fog in Marin County. Image by Matthew Fournier on Unsplash.
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Devotional Making Disciples

Fear and fear not

My friend hesitates. Uncomfortable when I speak of “the fear of the Lord.” And pray it for our children. 

Through the years, from their youngest days, this has been my prayer. That they may walk in the fear of the Lord. Know His wisdom. Recognize His holiness. 

But there are too many things to fear in our world today. We don’t need to make God one more thing to fear. Right? I think that’s the unspoken piece of this friend’s response.

But Jesus talks about fear. The wrong kind and the right kind. 

In prayer. Photo by Ben White, Unsplash photos.
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Devotional Making Disciples

Living in the unprecedented

Today is the day. Yes, today. While panic swirls in the atmosphere. Surging through conversations and broadcasts and social media. As a global pandemic  postpones, cancels, locks down.

Today is the day. To remember what is true. And focus on the lifeblood of this walk by faith. The only way we live and breathe and have our being.

Jesus invites us. Right in the middle of the normal and the upside down. Whether we’re walking through the ordinary or the unprecedented.

Abide in the Vine. Photo: Paul Lucyk, Unsplash