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Walking Toward Healing, Together.

Community, Healing, Nourish, Soul Care · February 17, 2020

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Thank you @kjramseywrites for these beautiful, true words from your book #ThisTooShallLast.

Every single one of us is experiencing loss or suffering in some way right now—whether we’re facing an absence of community, a loss of our old rhythms of life, financial uncertainty, or disease and diagnoses.

But suffering isn’t purposeless, and it isn’t lost on God. Rather, it reminds us that the world we’re living in will always be broken, and it points us back to the God who has promised to mend it.

K.J’s book This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers comes out on May 12 and couldn’t be more timely. I’m getting an early start and must say it’s worth pre-ordering now! Check out her page to learn more 🙌🏼

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After a couple weeks of grey clouds and gloomy days, blue skies and blooming flowers are popping up everywhere to remind us there’s still beauty to be found in a million different ways.

So thankful for neighborhood walks in the midst of social distancing. Even slow strolls are so healing for our tired bodies, our anxious minds, and our weary souls.

How are you prioritizing healing & wholeness right now? ☀️

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The world right now is so full of suffering, distraction, and fear. And when we’re paralyzed by those things, it can be too easy to miss the sweet and good things all around us. Spring is waking up outside our windows, but I’ll admit, the last few weeks I could hardly hear it.

Coronavirus hasn’t stopped the trees from budding, or the air from warming, or the sun from peeking out on a crisp afternoon. Spring is near (for many of us, spring is here!) and it’s still a gift—no matter our present pain or circumstances.

As the weather allows, I would encourage you to spend a little time sitting outside in the mornings on the days that you have time. Doing so reminds me that so much more lives and breathes and exists than my narrow frame of mind can comprehend.

May it remind you that this time we’re in is a season—and though it is a season that is tragic, overwhelming, and not to be taken lightly—seasons still come and they go. May the view from the backyard, the sweet-sounding chatter of birds, and the breeze tickling the neighbor’s wind chimes remind you that things do come back to life again. ☀️🌸🌿

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I couldn’t be more excited for this podcast! @kjramseywrites has been a huge inspiration and encouragement to me in my own writing and daily battle with chronic illness.

Her new podcast called #thistooshalllast reminds us that stories of suffering are worth telling and worth living, and that when we make space to talk about the hard things in our lives, we are filled with the courage to live like that’s actually true.

To celebrate, her publisher @Zondervan Reflective is giving away a pair of AirPods! To enter, share about the podcast on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook with #ThisTooShallLast and tag @kjramseywrites by 11:59pm MST Friday 1/31/20.

And go check out the first two episodes now—they’re amazing! 🙌🏼

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You may not feel him at first. You may not recognize his presence in the face across the table, in the fingers bound in yours, or in the prayers whispered softly over you.

You may not know it was him until long after the moment has gone.

But his coming near will leave you with the surest feeling that you’ve been held. That you never would have made it so far on your own.

When God comes near, he promises to carry us through every heartache. And when God comes near, he’s reminding us that he is always, always here. ❤️

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All throughout these last few months of struggle, stillness, and quiet, I have felt the same small pull on my heart, like a slow whisper—

Let Him be enough for you.

My heart resists and it fights, looking for “enough” in everything else. But when I come up empty—when I realize at the end of the day how much I still long for a healthy body, for fuller relationships, for deeper joy—I feel the same gentle nudge.

Let Him be enough for you.

The flowers of the field do not envy, worry, strive, or fear. For all that He has offered them, and all the beauty He has made, and every drop of rain that falls—it’s all enough.

May His plentiful provision be enough for us, too. ☀️
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#inwantandplenty IG Challenge Day 5 #enough @meredith_mcdaniel #hopewriterlife #hopewriters

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The bad news is that it won’t always be easy. But the good news is that we were never made to do this alone.

Sometimes the sweetest freedom comes from letting ourselves be seen. And I mean all of us—including the tears, the sorrow, the messes, the flaws, the fears. When we let our whole, true selves be fully seen, we open the door to being most fully known and deeply loved.

I hope that you might taste these sweet fruits of surrender in your life today.

#inwantandplenty IG Challenge Day 4 #seen @meredith_mcdaniel #hopewriterlife #hopewriters

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In your seasons of stillness, of quiet, of loss, wait before the Lord. He’ll be there—you’ll see. It may not be in your timing, and it may not be how you imagined, but when he comes, you won’t be able to miss it.

Until then, wait patiently to see his mysteries unfold. Wait for his abundance. Wait to feel the tides come in, wait to feel his waves wash over your toes and your ankles. Wait to feel his warmth upon your face. He’ll be there—you’ll see.

#inwantandplenty IG Challenge Day 3 #wait #hopewriterlife #hopewriters

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