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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 Help Your Children With Transition.(Blog Swap)

Posted on July 17, 2018by tara.dickson

As a part of my Summer Blog Swap, I am so happy to welcome Dorina Gilmore to the blog. She walked her own brave road as a widow and I had the honor of getting to meet her in California a few weeks ago, although we have talked for months as ”writing friends.” She has […]

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When You’re Ready to Let That Wound Heal. (Blog Swap)

Posted on July 10, 2018July 10, 2018by tara.dickson

As part of a Blog Swap I am doing with a few of my fellow writers for the month of July,  I am so happy to welcome Lea Turner to the blog. I know you will love her heart and her words. Take heart beloved. The Lord wants to heal those wounds as much as […]

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A Truth to Savor When You Need Direction.

Posted on July 1, 2018by tara.dickson

I read this verse the other day and I was stuck. I couldn’t go on until I soaked in every bit of it’s life giving truth. “The Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to lead them on their way during the day and in a pillar of fire to give them […]

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How To Move Forward, When Life Feels Broken Beyond Repair.

Posted on April 9, 2018by tara.dickson

When my beloved husband went to Heaven at the age of 45, I felt like life as I knew it was over and I couldn’t imagine how to step forward. In fact, it felt like my own heart had stopped beating with his. But the ache didn’t lie. I was still here with four children […]

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Only in Dying Can We Live.

Posted on March 18, 2018by tara.dickson

Remember the parable of the sower? I remember hearing it for years and thinking, “ Well, I am a believer so I must have good soil in my heart.” That immediately ended anything good I could glean from hearing the Word and applying it to my heart. Beloved, as long as we are living it’s […]

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He Still Moves Stones

Posted on March 5, 2018March 6, 2018by tara.dickson

After a month or more of too many feelings and not enough words, I felt the Spirit’s excavating presence. We survived. We made it through the month of Alan’s birthday and home going. It was 2 years ago that we walked away from the cemetery and retreated to the beach, to walk the shores and […]

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Learning to Breathe Again.

Posted on January 24, 2018by tara.dickson

New beginnings and new seasons often begin with a new year. Just like clockwork ours did too. After a night of board games and egg nog, we found ourselves in a cold, sterile ER. What we thought was a stomach bug that was dehydrating my husband was a large mass pressing on his brain. While […]

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Before You Ring in the New Year!

Posted on December 29, 2017December 29, 2017by tara.dickson

I grabbed my stocking cap, pulling it snug over my ears and stepped outside. Pulling my gloves from my pocket I inhaled deeply. “There’s nothing like the crisp clean air of winter,” I thought. Still, the temperature had dropped and it took everything in me to brave the cold. Walking around the bend I passed […]

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The Word of God is living! Yesterday I received The Word of God is living! 

Yesterday I received the sweetest gift, artwork from one of my student’s mama and a beautiful note from that student.

But the cherry on top was the scripture chosen and written into the card. 
Only God knew it was the verse He had spoken to me many years ago when I was in the trenches of motherhood. 
At the time it was something He told me to “remember” and speak over Alan. So I had a piece of art made with it. 
So much has happened since then! Years have gone by. 
There has been sickness,death, joyful, weddings and babies born. 
And through it all I’ve seen the hand of God. 
I think He knew I needed a personal reminder that He is still working out that particular verse for our family. 
Everything changes! 
People grow up and move. People are added to our lives and some removed. 
But God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth remains the same! 
His Word is the very lamp for our feet. 

“And though the grass withers and the flowers fall, the Word of our God endures forever. “
(Isaiah  40:8)
#liftupyoureyes #seekandsavorpodcast #wordofgodspeak #renewyourmind #joyfulliving #lifeafterloss
“Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righte “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and ALL these things shall be added unto you.” Matt.6:33

I’m holding these words close because planning and dreaming and doing is hard.

Decisions are hard.

Even if we feel like we know what God is requiring of us, the follow through can be tough.

We ask, we seek and we knock and then with a breath of courage from Heaven we step out.

Exhale beloved. He is the one that determines our steps.

When we are trying hard to lean in and listen and step out brave we can begin to carry the burden of it all.

Am I getting it right Lord? Should I have made a right turn or left? Should I has said yes or no?

Where is that writing on the wall I asked for?

He sees you beloved. He’s got you.

So lean in. Listen. Step out brave, and trust Him to show you the way as you seek first His kingdom. ❤️
#rejoicealways #seekfirstthekingdomofgod #seekandsavorpodcast #hopeforthefuture #lifeafterloss #givethanksforlife
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:

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Sometimes the Truth is clear and simple! As this Sometimes the Truth is clear and simple! 
As this school year draws to a close and I consider the brevity of time with my third graders I remember the best gift I can leave with them is the one I want to leave with my own children and grandchildren. 
It’s the reminder that everything they need is found in Jesus and His word.
It’s simple.❤️
They’re everywhere, now that I can see. I used They’re everywhere, now that I can see. 
I used to look for them, straining my eyes to see the good things when life felt especially hard.
I counted them one by one until my eyes were lifted back up to the Father and away from my chaos.
At times life spins us out of control and we get dizzy and forget again.
Life’s not really, too busy.
When the world stops, the blur of moments, people, and days passing stills.
In the quiet my eyes can see in detail the lavish lengths our God has gone to show us He is here.
He is with us and He loves us with an everlasting love.
 
I’ve been asking for a long time now that God would help me see him as clearly in the light as I do in the dark.
That He would help my hunger for Him  not to wax and wane but stay steady and remain.
He is doing it. In His kindness, He is drawing me in.
 
Somehow in the unknown. I am being known by Him and being known reminds me I am loved.

How have you seen the kindness of God? Let it draw you to His side. Let it deepen your love for Him and hold onto that when life feels hard. 
 
Jeremiah 31:3 I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.
#liftupyoureyes #rejoicealways #onethousandgifts #renewyourmind #givethanksforlife #graceupongrace
The Pathway to Courage is today’s episode on the The Pathway to Courage is today’s episode on the Seek and Savor podcast! Find it at the link in my bio. ❤️
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