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Cumulus Glory

by Cheryl · In: Blog, Encouragement · on Aug 18, 2014

Seeing this wild cloud formation yesterday afternoon reminded me how we’re constantly in a battle between light and darkness. Will we say “yes” to the dark sweeping clouds of sin and let them swoop down and threaten our sky, or will we learn to hate what is evil and cling to what is good? A big white cloud of witnesses watches.  Our ever-present Savior eagerly waits to help us deal with enemy darkness in its various changing forms.  God gives us the gift of choice.  So what will we do? [box] Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Come …

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Don’t Go Green

by Cheryl · In: Blog, Transformation · on Aug 12, 2014

Has it happened to you lately? The moment your joy meets another person’s envy?  The time your happy heart collides with someone’s self-pity? A friend waxes green behind a tight-lipped smile and a reluctant shake of the head… “Must be nice…” She may even toss God into it. “Boy, I sure wish God would do that for me…” Self-pity, self-seeking, comparison-making, false-fronts. Yuck, yuck, double yuck. But who hasn’t tasted the sour-stomaching fruity effects of the flesh? So we ask God for more love! Indeed, our flesh screams in protest when we work to attain something, only to watch it …

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The Beautiful Choice

by Cheryl · In: Blog, Transformation · on Jul 31, 2011

    Choices…. [box] God could have made us robots, marching to His heart, forced to love completely, obeying from the start. Instead He made us separate, with built-in modes for choice, so love would prove more precious when we finally hear His voice…[/box] I wrote this as a young teen in the trenches of a choices… I was the girl who believed if someone didn’t like her, there was something terribly wrong with her. Have you ever met someone who was so insecure about relationships that she sometimes controlled, manipulated, and strangled them? Love, by nature, can’t be forced; it necessitates choice. …

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