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How to Carry the Resurrection of Christ With Us.

Posted on April 18, 2022by tara.dickson

Darkness. Waiting. Feelings of doubt and despair but also the mere bubbling up of a hope not yet dead… The earth trembles, the tomb shakes, and no amount of darkness can hold back the light … the life of CHRIST!   It can’t stop there beloved! As this weekend started drawing to a close, my […]

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Walking Into the New Year Waving A White Flag.

Posted on January 2, 2022January 2, 2022by tara.dickson

The rain is pouring down on the metal roof of my sunroom right above my head. The staccato rhythm of the rain is beating in my chest and it feels like the new year has swept in with gail force winds. I feel the tension in my body and I’m tired. I’m so tired of […]

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Autumn Beauty and Taking Up Our Cross.

Posted on October 2, 2021October 9, 2021by tara.dickson

Fall is sweeping in and I just love it. I know some of you are mourning the end of summer but when the leaves dress in their finest, splendor and the air looses its heaviness, I feel my heart begin to skip. The afternoon light carries a depth of gold that’s fleeting, And, I wonder […]

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Courage is Yours For The Taking.

Posted on September 19, 2021by tara.dickson

I’ve felt it deep in my soul. Like the steady beating of a heart. Courage. Courage. Courage. The lack of it. The great need of it. The way it has the power to change things when a frail human lays hold of it and steps up to the plate we call life. I don’t know […]

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The Power to Live A More Than “Normal” Life This Year.

Posted on January 12, 2021by tara.dickson

Well, we’re officially into the new year and I think we can all see there was no magic reset button to bring all things back to normal. But here’s what I’ve learned in the last six years beloved. NORMAL is overrated. Six years ago today, we stumbled out onto Michigan Avenue after doctors told us […]

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What is Holding You Back?

Posted on November 5, 2019by tara.dickson

I took a month off podcasting to step back and breathe. As you can see from the date of the last blog post that’s where I’m spending most of my time. You can find similar content to my blogs over at “Seek and Savor, ” on iTunes and other places you tune into your favorite […]

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The State Of Our Hearts.

Posted on February 13, 2019by tara.dickson

As Valentine’s Day approaches, I want to be so intentional. In our family this day has always been so simple. Some chocolates for our children, some flowers for me from my husband and a special home cooked meal. Since I was raised by a single mama, the kids and I would often take flowers to […]

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Thanksgiving Is Rooted In Receiving.

Posted on November 21, 2018by tara.dickson

Thanksgiving is upon us and maybe like me you want this season we are ushering in to be MORE. With every passing year, I feel the holy hush enter my soul just a bit earlier. It’s more than just the upcoming holidays filled with family, food and friends. It’s the general lifting of so many […]

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How to Change Your Default from Stress to Joy!

Posted on September 20, 2018by tara.dickson

I was standing in the park the other day, in California, watching my granddaughter play with another child in a giant sandbox. All of a sudden they decided a “snail hunt” was the next thing to do. They wandered in and out among some small trees and bushes and I moved to be able to […]

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What To Do When Plans Change Without Our Permission. ( Blog Swap.)

Posted on August 1, 2018by tara.dickson

I’m sharing a few words from my writer friend, Carol Graft today, because as I read them they lingered on. With the words came memory on top of memory of all the plans I have made in my life that didn’t come to pass. Sometimes beloved the answer is simple. It’s arriving at the answer […]

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The world is so loud right now and I find myself p The world is so loud right now and I find myself pressing into Jesus more and more.
I want everything he has for me. Don’t you friend?
I’m often reminded that life is short and  I don’t want any of the breaths he gives me to be wasted. It feels like a weighty thing we’ve been entrusted with… this life we’ve been given.
This doesn’t mean I can’t rest.
In fact I think resting in Jesus is a valuable thing.  It produces good things.
It DOES mean I want Him to search my heart.
I want him to sweep away all the things that might be keeping me from doing the very things he has created  me for.
Have you asked him that lately?
Father, search me.
What needs to go?
What needs to GROW?

What if we started with this beloved…
Search me oh God, tell me if there be anything in me that is not of you.

Life can press us dear ones and do it’s own kind of revealing.
Perhaps you’ve had times when life has pressed you and you have allowed it to press you into Jesus.

Or maybe you are remembering times when hard things have caught you unaware and the small places of bitterness or unbelief that you have held onto have risen up.

Let today be a day of fresh beginnings.

“O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
Psalm 139:

Click on the link in my bio to listen today’s new episode of the Seek and Savor podcast, “ Search Me Oh God.” If it resonates with you click the share button.
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Too often I go about my days taking care of busine Too often I go about my days taking care of business, doing all the things, and without thinking…
I’ve picked up one concern after another.
Instead of depositing them at the Father’s feet, I’m over here worrying them like a dog with a fresh bone.
You know what that produces beloved?
Exhaustion.
We can become worn and weary when we try to carry things we were never created to carry. 
But something happens when we deposit those heavy things at the master’s feet. 
We’re lighter.
And because He is God, He never lets us walk away empty handed. 
Instead He makes a holy exchange with us. 
We give him our burdens, 
He gives us a mantle of praise.
Then we walk out of his presence not just FEELING better but looking different as well!
Our garments of praise mark us, as having been with the King.
Isaiah 61:3 “ He will give us a mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit. “

Who wants to be first in line with me to get your garment of praise?

Tag a friend who needs this encouragement or share to stories to bless someone else.

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This photo came up on my memories. It was a year This photo came up on my memories.

It was a year after Alan had gone to Heaven.

Holding hands at dinner one night she was praying. 
"Dear Jesus, ( and then words I couldn't understand) she stopped, opened her eyes and looked at me. She said," I am praying for God to give you a new heart." 

😭❤️ What?! You mean for the one that was broken? 

The Father knows what we need when we don't  have the words to ask. 

He has the vision for what being whole and made new looks like! 

And He will use whoever He wants and whoever is willing to be that voice of truth! 

I'm so thankful for the little ones who are so freely led by His Spirit! 

And it challenges me….Am I willing? Are you beloved? 
Who do we know that needs truth spoken over their lives. 

Not my version of truth  or yours, but the truth of God's word and His perfect will! He makes all things new! 

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With Mother’s Day just past and Father’s Day a With Mother’s Day just past and Father’s Day around the corner I’m thinking of the ones who dread these days.

Now maybe they are your favorite and filled with beautiful new memories.

However if life looks different than you dream it would they can also bring with then fresh grief.

While  we can’t control the way our lives look we can choose where to direct our thoughts.

This is not a denial of what we feel or a stuffing of our feelings.

We can acknowledge all those things and then choose to direct our eyes beyond ourselves. 

To another. 

It’s never failed to give my heart purpose and joy.

How can you make someone else feel seen, heard and loved today? 

It doesn’t have to be a special day to choose love! 

I’m cheering you on beloved!

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I talk a lot about what it looks like to “Lift U I talk a lot about what it looks like to “Lift Up Your Eyes.”
But the Lord has been pressing into my heart that even more, I just need His eyes.

There can be a Holy Exchange as we lift our eyes to Jesus. 
We can say, I want your eyes! I want to see people and situations and even myself the way you do Lord.

If you want that too beloved, then you’re gonna love today’s New Episode of the Seek and Savor Podcast. 
Save to listen to when you have 8 minutes or share to stories. Link in my bio. 
Because truly, we all need His Eyes.😍
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Have you ever wondered what it means to LIVE by th Have you ever wondered what it means to LIVE by the words that come from God’s mouth?
Matthew 4:4 tells us that
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
Just like our bodies need bread to give us strength to continue living. ….our spirits need the word’s breathed by God to sustain our souls.
Breathed by God beloved. 
It makes so much sense that these words alone  have the power to actually Revive us. 

Revive us according to your word God. 🙏

This is how His yoke becomes easy and His burdens become light. 
It happens when we fill our hearts with so much of Him, that is what spills out when we are pressed. 

I want to drip Jesus. Don’t you? 

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