Author: Kara
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Touchstone: Why some prayers aren’t answered the way that we hoped.
A woman lay dying in the hospital half a world away from us. Her sister was travelling furiously to her bedside –a 2-day journey– to say goodbye. We prayed that the woman would be healed or failing that, would make it long enough for them to see each other one last time. The next day,…
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No Limits Prayer: Why we need to give God some solution space.
Many years of working in IT has taught me this about engineers: they love a good problem, and they hate being told “how” to solve it. I mean that IS what they get paid the big bucks for, yeah? Ok, let’s do a bit of a shift: imagine for a moment that you are the…
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Jesus and the Gigantic Wall of Water: When danger becomes an adventure
Jesus is piloting a small sailboat. I’m seated across from Him and we’re chatting as He mans the rudder. It’s just the two of us and I’m enjoying hanging out with Him on a beautiful day. Suddenly He stands up and His face grows very determined, sure, set like a flint. He tells me to…
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Magical Ru- loving the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is… magical. There is a wild gentleness to Him, soft and yet uncontainably strong. He listens to us as though our roles are reversed, and we’re the one with something important to say. Ru* is wind, mysterious and playful. Yet this freest of spirits stops and stills Himself to savor us in…
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Diary of a Website: Working with God
I have no idea what I’m doing sometimes. The Holy Spirit said, “build a website and share what I tell you to,” and I have been, er, learning my way through Bluehost/Wordpress ever since. Am I the only one that wishes sometimes that God would take a cue from “The Shoemaker and the Elves” so…
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Against the Swirl: A proclamation for the mind
A proclamation using the Word of God to help calm and restore the mind. Declarations cover healing and restoration, thought life, attention, protection, and gratitude.
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The Fire, the Glory, the Blood, and the Love: A vision of God’s Kingdom come
A vision of the outpouring of God’s Glory and how to access it in these times.
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The Birds and The Cat: Warring from the place of rest
The birds were chattering, flittering, and pecking about as I gazed out at my backyard on a peaceful summer morning. I sat on my patio absorbing the scene, amused by their squabbles, their tail flung mating dances, their wobbly bobbing gaits as they combed the grass for food. All of the sudden there was a…
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Describing Bapa: The beauties of our Abba Father
What can I say about my Bapa, our dear Heavenly Father? He is deep and quiet, a being of thought and patience. He is tender and so sweet, there is a gentle vulnerability to His Arms, open wide for hugs that will never come from an ungrateful humanity. But you and I, beloved child of…