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Intimacy and Identity

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Wipe Every Tear

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We steel ourselves against the longing, the ache, the pain. I know we do. I know I do. What else are we to do? And we’ve done so for so long, many of us do not know the longing is there at all. And even among those of us who know it’s there, we fear how deep it goes. Recently, my family spent a week with my in-laws in the Midwest. My children love their grandparents and two of them got to stay an...

Oh to See Again!

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Is it possible you and I have never fully used our eyes before? What if we’ve been looking at the world around us, the people around us, even ourselves, but we’ve never really seen before? When Adam and Eve rebelled against God at the very beginning, the Scriptures teach that their eyes were “opened” and they “knew they were naked” (Genesis 3:7). It almost sounds as if previously they’d been...

Connected?

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My phone stopped working last week. Maybe this is why I’ve been noticing so many people are on their mobile devices recently. The dad scrolling through newsfeed at his daughter’s softball game. The guy in the car next to me glancing back and forth between his phone and the road. The half a dozen tables of teenagers at the coffee shop with their friends—phones out, heads down, and fingers swiping...

Excerpt from Path through the Wilderness

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… Jesus’ greater purpose in coming to earth was to be the connection, the way for us to be in right relationship with the Father. Adam and Eve’s capacity to see and hear aright changed the moment they ate of the [forbidden] fruit. Their spiritual eyes closed …they went from life to death! Knowledge of good and evil replaced their true source of life. Knowledge in and of itself cannot impart life...

A Different Approach to Desire

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We have two typical responses when confronted with desire. The first is to indulge it. We want what we want and we want it now. This is the starting place for most of us even as little children. Some of us never outgrow it. We can trace this approach back to our first father and mother who, though God said not to, ate the forbidden fruit because it looked good and seemed to promise what they...

In Love with Falling in Love

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True confession: I’m a sap when it comes to love stories, and I admit I love a happily ever after ending. Falling in love can be magnificent. It can awaken our senses to beauty. Suddenly, we notice the twittering of birds, the colors in the sky, the quiet creaking of trees, or the quirky sense of humor of that difficult coworker. Falling in love stirs desire in us. It draws us like a magnet...

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