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The Shape of Us – Andrea burke
“I know you have shaped me, and I shape you, and in this we are both being made into something new. Our children grow and learn under, what I hope is, our tender and intentional molding. Or at least our tender and intentional honesty that we are also under the Potter’s Hands, and there are still things about all of us that need to be pressed and carved. I know when I look in the mirror I see the shape of my mother, my father, my grandmother, a long-lost ancestor who wrote poetry, who planted gardens, who prayed, who sang songs while cooking a meal. Her name may be forgotten but the shape of her is still pressed in me somewhere. I feel it in my bones.”
Seeing Through Tears – Brianna Lambert
The Worry-Free Parent with Sissy Goff – Famous At Home
Etched Upon My Heart – Rachel fenton
“We memorize what surrounds us, and what we memorize shapes the person we are.”
“But “Practical” and “Good” are not necessarily synonymous. Often, we ask the wrong questions. We look for what a thing can do for us, instead of asking what it does to us.And what memorization does to us is transformative. It shapes us at our very core. A synonym for memorization is “knowing by heart”. The heart is our crux, our being: and what we store in our heart defines us. As the Psalms say, (119:11 in the Masoretic numbering, Psalm 118:11 in the Greek numbering): I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. What we etch upon our heart, what we store within us, becomes us.”
To Light Their Way – Kayla Craig
I L-O-V-E this book. Recently I was in the prayer for a child with big feelings:
In our child’s confusion, may we be a safe place to land. In our child’s anger, may we have the wisdom to help them process. In our child’s sadness, may we create a space for listening. In our child’s anxieties, may we help them find ways to heal. Christ, who welcomed little children in their full humanity, grant us compassion and connectivity, empathy and endurance as we walk with our child toward your great love.
John Mark Comer on Matthew
Every Walk Is An Opportunity – 1,000 Hours Podcast
Cast Your Burden Upon the Lord – Tim Challies
“God’s promise is not that he will take the burden from us, but that he will sustain us as we bear it. God’s promise is not that he will free us from what ails us—not yet, at least—, but that he will enable us to carry it for as long as he deems fit. God’s promise is not that he will remove that burden but that he will support us so that we have no need to fear that we will stumble or fall. With God’s support, we have no need to fear that we will undermine the work he intends to do or to fail to remain faithful to the end.“
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