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One of us says it at least once a week: “I’m SO grateful for this group.” We can’t help but express the well of gratitude that overflows from a heart that knows the ministry of community.
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Where once we had nowhere to run with every up and down that comes with writing, we now have each other. We bear burdens, share fears, pronounce hope, carry pain, and eagerly encourage one another to do the holy work of communicating the gospel message in specific ways to our people through the written word.
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Bless the Lord, o my soul. Through this writer’s group, I know more on earth as it is in heaven.

There are days when I wake up and realize we have absolutely nothing scheduled for the day. The weather is rainy and cold, and I start to get a little tense about how we’ll “pass the time” being stuck inside.
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I’m tempted to grow anxious, running after all the possible options, or to complain, grumbling over the inconvenience of weather and the lack of outside company.
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But humility is always the better way, remembering that God ordains my days and never desires that we “pass the time” but that we seek first His Kingdom and utilize what we’ve been given to know Him and love others.
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So these days show me my limits more than others. But these limitations force me towards humility, to cry out to God for wisdom and direction. To get more creative than fulfilling plans.
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And often I find that when these days occur, engaging with humility and creativity foster greater intimacy of relationship between us (and the Lord) than days spent with a schedule.
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(loved @risenmotherhood’s episode on creativity!)
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#motherhoodissanctifying #risenmotherhood #seekfirstthekingdom #wordsworthnoting

Pregnancy creates a unique experience with hunger. Often I’m hungry, but nothing in the world sounds good to eat. But if I do eat and what I choose isn’t filling, it only exacerbates my hunger.
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By late afternoon, if I haven’t eaten or eaten well, I’m grumpy, easily irritated, and can’t think about anything else but how poorly I feel (basically the opposite of 1 Corinthians 13).
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I’m realizing how this plays out in my spiritual life, too. The places where I’m given to frustration, impatience, lack of sacrifice or surrender are the very places I’m refusing to acknowledge my deep hunger. The one that reminds me of my need of Jesus, the Bread of Life.
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The fruit of these sins shows me that I’ve feasted at a table that could never satisfy, that I’ve depended on something other than God to quiet my cravings.
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In the places where your sin shows up, pause and ask the Spirit to help you trace it back to the root. What do you really desire? What are you really hungry for? What table are you communing for life?
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When you see it, let it humble you to repentance and receive the grace that will cultivate your appetite for the only One who can strengthen and sustain you for the trials of this life.
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#31weeks #pregnant #blessedarethosewhohunger #wordsworthnoting

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