Posts Tagged With: meaning

As the Years Go By: Meaningful Breaths

I opened the dashboard for this blog this morning wanting to write a new post. I’ve taken a break from writing, for the most part, since Thanksgiving. I needed the breather. While we are ten days into the new year, it is yet the new year, so I say with you, “Welcome to 2025!”

As I looked over my dashboard (the interior of my WordPress blog), I found that two readers recently had pulled up a very old post of mine dated January 17, 2012. (This blog was birthed in November of 2011.) At that time this blog was part of my ministry as the curriculum director for Troy Christian Schools in Troy, Ohio, although I was living in Arizona. My articles were short then because they were written mainly for parents of our students, and I posted more often.

The following is my January 2012 post which I find to still be relevant, as well as gentle and refreshing. It is short.

Let our work inhabit our prayer. Let our prayer inhabit our work.

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Categories: A Traveler's Guide thr Suffering & Joy, prayer | Tags: , | 6 Comments

Part I: For Goodness Sake

I had a post ready to publish last Friday, but then “the devil rolled into Newtown,” as I remember hearing the news anchor, Bill Hemmer, express.  Most energy moves to the point of pain, so what I once had to say became unimportant.  Language cannot express the suffering, so as the Scriptures explain, “We know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now,” referring to the coming birth of “the glory that is to be revealed to us” in God’s eternal state when evil is banished (context of Romans 8: 18-30).  “. . .We ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly. . . .”  This passage also states that the Spirit of God groans for us because we are too weak to even know how to pray!

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Categories: Being Like Jesus, Joy & Suffering -- Good & Evil, Parenting, Spiritual Growth | Tags: , , , , , , | 1 Comment

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