Grace Lived Out

Knowing what matters … living restful and purposeful lives

Remember!

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Remembering yesterday’s goodness to you from God can help you face today’s challenge from wherever. The Christian’s life can be compared to a rower, where our back is toward where we’re going, but we can see where we’ve been. We’re asked to daily stroke our one oar in the water—steadily, worshipfully, and trustfully. This one oar is … Read More »

Intimacy with God

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Lovers can have between themselves a depth of intimacy and communication that goes beyond words. To think that communication with the Living God, our Abba, cannot involve something equivalent or even greater is ridiculous (Psa 42:7). John Cassian describes this type of prayer as “an immeasurable fire of love. The soul settles in it and sinks […] Read More »

Difficult Roads, Beautiful Destinations

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Difficult roads may lead to beautiful destinations. The following thoughts, from Isaac of Nineveh, may help you on your journey to a better place. “I have no broken heart to start me on the quest for you [Lord Jesus]. No penitence, no tenderness … I have no tears with which to pray to you. My spirit is in darkness …  my heart is cold …  I know not how to make it warm again by tears of love for you.… I have forsaken you. Do not forsake me. I have wandered far from you. Do set out in quest of me.” Read More »

The Mark of a Great Athlete and Christian Leader

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Christian leader, bear with all people, even as the Lord bears with you; endure all in love,… Press on in your race … the time needs you (as pilots [of a sailing vessel] needs winds and as a storm tossed sailor needs a harbor) … Be sober as God’s athlete … It is the mark of a great athlete to be bruised, yet still conquer. Read More »

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