Encouraging Words, Scripture, Quotes, Poetry

Scripture, quotes, and messages that inspire the God breathed Word into life

Blowing in the Wind

Poetry beautifully describes the emotions rising up within us surrounding events, changes, people, fears, joys. They are deeply felt and exude powerful words worth pondering. As the leaves begin to change and ultimately blow in the wind, examine how you are feeling about the changes taking place in your life. My horse thinks the whirling leaves […]

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Thankful for Family

The joy of family, by blood or not, is denied many in this world. Many spend holidays alone, outcast from events, snubbed by society, and sensing they are not good enough, remain lonely. Their idea of family becomes skewed by life’s hardships, mental breakdowns, addictions, and selfish endeavors. This is not how it is supposed

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Not Gone, Fortifying

This beautiful orb hung out on my back deck all summer. With the changing of the season she’s all packed up and gone. I miss her. I miss the web, watching her work, and most of all that she wasn’t scared to be with me nor I her. The conversations she so quietly listened to,

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Seeing Gratitude

Gratitude is a choice. It is a decision laced with emotions. It is a kind of choosing that brings about damp eyes of joy instead of despair, an excited heart instead of a broken one, a smile of thankfulness instead of a scowl of frustration. Any given day can turn badly in the blink of

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Confidence of Jesus

Without the confidence in the words His Father spoke to Him, Jesus would have caved at the first sign of unbelief in followers and simply blended into the crowds for safety. Without the confidence of His prayers reaching the courts of heaven, Jesus would have given up his time spent in daily solitude and prayer

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Infinite, Vast, and Wild

God’s love for each of us is vast and wild and calming all in the same breathe. Holy love is mysterious like the ocean and as infinite as the sky. So, today, if you are feeling unloved and overwhelmed know there is one who loves you to the moon and back. This love is more

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Chasing Empty

What are you chasing? Are you still chasing emptiness? Do not trust in emptiness, deceiving yourself, for emptiness will be your payment. It will be paid in full before paying your time, and your branch will not be green. Job 15:31,32 Momentary pleasures, recognition, ego boosters, prideful work, and a whole host of love in

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Be That Person

It will take determination, many times. It will be by the grace of God, many times. But, you can be that person who becomes better than what or who broke you. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God… Ephesians 2:8

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