Memorization
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moreHow to Get through Life’s Hard Parts (Video)
On Friday, April 05 th, 2013When the notes keep coming out all wrong, Hope looks up from the piano. “Is that what she said? Didn’t she say play only the left?” Yeah, that’s what she’d said, I had heard her — that willowy piano adjudicator who’d tucked a loose strand of mouse ...
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moreThe 1 Thing Radical Really Definitely Has to Look Like — Right Where We Are
On Friday, March 15 th, 2013No one just straight up tells you that the things you’ve seen — become what you see. That you’ll close your eyes a thousand nights from now and it will all be real again — where you were and what they wore, that one look, that one moment, that one frame. That you’ll see the world through what you’ve seen of the world and there’s no goi...
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moreHow to Make This Month Amazing {Video}
On Friday, March 01 st, 2013What you know by heart — is what your heart really knows. And the crazy things is, right at the first of the month: what the heart knows by heart is all that can calm a heart. Direct a heart. Strengthen a heart. So I’m thinking: What does a heart know by heart? So March blows in — and this heart here stammers out a recitation of Romans 1...
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moreThe Big Reveal: What Faith is, from First to Last
On Tuesday, February 19 th, 2013So…(!) since one of the kids sprained an ankle while serving here at Mission of Hope Haiti, we’ll catch up here again tomorrow with a Haiti family missions trip post, and let Liz Curtis Higgs , my heart sister who has jumped into our The Romans Project with us, slip up onto the farm porch with these heart strengthening words….Liz is the humble, wise (and fu...
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moreThe Sister Promise: What We make to Our Sisters *Updated with Video
On Friday, February 08 th, 2013It was after the brownies, when I’m dabbing up the calorie crumbs, that she just spills this confession like the folds of some priestly robes. She says she’s damaged him. As if you can throw a kid a glare that punches him in the gut so hard you chip off a bit of his fragile soul. Ask me how I know. ...
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moreEven in the Bleak Midwinter, the Hope of Spring
On Thursday, January 17 th, 2013So.. (!) Liz Curtis Higgs took me under her gorgeous proverbial wing last year when this knee-knocking farm girl said yes to God & sharing what He’s done in my life at several Women of Faith events last year. We’ve become true heart sisters, praying that God would make ours beat with His. So when Liz jumped at The Romans Pr...
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moreThe 1 Habit God Really Wants for Your New Year {The Romans Project}
On Friday, January 04 th, 2013For all of 2012? I carry around the Mount and it moves mountains. And there isn’t a bone in me that wants to come down from where He transfigures. ...
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moreWhat Happens if You Really Believe… {Come to the Farm on Friday: Sermon on the Mount Video with hens}
On Friday, April 27 th, 2012Come to the farm on Friday? Mount the Mount with us? Consider the words of Jesus’s upending, uprighting Sermon … And come be the lamb that knows the Shepherd’s voice… the chick that tucks safe under the faithful offering of His wing. CLICK HERE TO COME TO OUR FARM: Watch the video with our hens & my attempt to rec...
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moreweekends are for your life {video} {Sermon on the Mount}
On Saturday, March 17 th, 2012{Consider pausing music by clicking the slider directly under the header? If reading in a reader or via email, click here to view a less than word-perfect but heartfelt recitation before a candle here off our farm kitchen, of Sermon on the Mount. } Weekends are for more than bread, for what comes from the mouth of God, For Words that are more than mere words…. For t...
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moreThis is Who You Are — Right Where You Are {Sermon on the Mount} {Video} {link-up}
On Friday, February 17 th, 2012{Consider pausing the music by clicking the slider directly under the header? And if reading in a reader or via email – click here to go for a walk in the woods on a foggy day on the farm… Oh, and next time? I’m praying for sun and recording a different view? Kids? Goats? Hens? Sunshine? } And these words I’m trying...
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Sermon on the Mount …on the farm {a video} {link-up}
On Friday, February 03 rd, 2012{Consider pausing the music by clicking the slider directly under the header? And if reading in a reader or via email – click here to go for a walk in the woods on the farm… } Martyn Lloyd-Jones on “Why Memorize the Sermon on the Mount?” “He came — I say – and lived and died and rose again and sent the Holy Spirit in order that ...
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The 1 Habit More Important than Quiet Time? {Memorize the Mount: Free Sermon on the Mount Memory Booklet}
On Wednesday, January 25 th, 2012Who memorizes God in the age of Google? For a week, longer, I wake with these fears choking hard. Fears pushing me into the pit. And it comes while I struggle to get out of bed, comes early as the light pries back the dark, words we’ve been committing to heart — and I murmur them, hold onto them like a lifeline tossed: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for thei...
