Seeking Intimacy

A Masquerade? Or The Real Deal?

Every day for the past three days, Lord, I have asked You for great favor. For us and for our fishing guides. Here in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. An abundance of Your favor that would glorify You and be a witness of Your Amazing Grace. Why am I not surprised that You did exactly that?!   :)...
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My Favorite Days, Too!

It has become her favorite day of the month. The day when You show up, Lord... in ways she has never experienced before. Why? How? It's simple... isn't it, Lord? Only because You have made it so. "I have loved you with an everlasting Love. I have drawn you with Unfailing Kindness."  (Jeremiah 31:3) "Come near...
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Beam Me Up, Scotty?!

I love the tag line AT&T came up with years ago, touting the benefits of the telephone in connecting loved ones separated by long distances: "It's the next best thing to being there." I guess for us, Lord, that tag line refers to prayer... right? Without a landline or cell phone in sight. Without a Facebook...
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Pretzel Thinking

Pretzels of the twisted kind.  Thinking of the twisted kind.  I heard it just yesterday.  From those who claim to love You, Lord. Even me...?  Not yesterday, perhaps. But I am certainly not immune... "...watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted."  (Galatians 6:1) We were talking about events in our day.  How, increasingly, the...
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Ready for Liftoff!

You are the Master Communicator, Lord!  I know this... yet You never cease to amaze me with Your creativity!  Yesterday, the "medium" You chose for Your message was a... ... helicopter??? I was meeting with a dear sister.  We always gather in Your Presence.  And You never disappoint us! Yesterday was "just another day" in...
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The Power of Divine Suggestion

"I've never said that before!  When it came out of my mouth, I wondered: 'Where did THAT come from???'" He was our guide at the Botanic Garden today in Sydney.  A very nice, very knowledgeable grey-haired man who talked us through a 90-minute free tour.  A fascinating combination of history, anthropology, botany, zoology and sociology....
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Rise… And Go In Peace

A "God-Encounter of the Jesus Kind." It was yesterday, in church.  During communion. We are fairly new to this particular congregation.  Still experiencing the newness of the way communion is celebrated there. Pew by pew, we all walk forward and kneel at the altar in order to be served. We are a large enough congregation...
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Questions and More Questions

When you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. What are we standing for, Lord? What are we willing to risk in the process? What are we falling for? What is our personal "line in the sand"? What happens when the "tide" comes in? Who is the tide? Who is the drought? Who keeps...
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Micro-Miracles!

No one can deny a "Macro-Miracle" like the parting of the Red Sea, Lord. When Your people were on the verge of destruction.  Backed up against an impenetrable barrier -- the Red Sea -- with the Egyptian army bearing down on them.  Until You penetrated what was otherwise impenetrable.  And they moved across on dry...
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Closing the Distance

When was I close enough to touch Your face yesterday, Lord? When I listened to Your Word in the predawn darkness, receiving it -- and You, its Author -- so gratefully? "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."  (John 1:1) When I petted my husband's...
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