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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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The Treasures Around Us.

Posted on September 24, 2017September 25, 2017by tara.dickson

It’s paradise, they say, or at least as close as you can get to it! Looking around it would seem so! The vegetation is so lush all around you, every shade of green broken up my bright pinks, creamy whites and bold reds. Sitting on this balcony gazing out at the blue waves that stretch […]

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When Joy and Heartbreak Collide.

Posted on January 5, 2017by tara.dickson

It’s earlier than usual as I climb into bed. This big, soft empty bed. I try not to go to bed early. I want to be as tired as I can, read, watch something on Netflix, go to bed tired. So tired that I can’t keep my eyes open. Then I am too tired, too […]

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When You Need A Word for the New Year.

Posted on December 31, 2016by tara.dickson

As I have been trying to prepare my heart for the New Year or at least New Year’s Eve. My mind is a jumbled mess. My memories are filled with experiences. Thoughts of years past when we played board games, drank eggnog and tried to stay awake for the ball to drop, swirl through my […]

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October’s Promise

Posted on October 10, 2016December 21, 2016by tara.dickson

Did you know that just like spring gives us the promise of new life, fall has it’s own sweet promise that it whispers? We see it as we watch a crimson leaf drift quietly to the ground. It’s in the golden light that drifts through the trees of the waning day and in the cool […]

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Day Seven: A Joyful Hope – It is possible.

Posted on October 7, 2016December 21, 2016by tara.dickson

Today calls us out even further into the waters of believing. It goes beyond an attitude of hope to a Joyful Hope. One that is so sure that God is with us that we anticipate with excitement how He is going to show up. I want to be very real and transparent beloved I am […]

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What If I Told You I Found The Secret To Aging Gracefully?

Posted on September 17, 2016December 21, 2016by tara.dickson

     I love beautiful things! Don’t we all? We exclaim or sunsets, ocean views, and baby anything! I love that the Lord loves beauty too and He created an amazing world for us to live in. He loves a variety of shapes and colors in people and animals too.       Yet as […]

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I’m popping on hear to share this. It’s somet I’m popping on hear to share this.

It’s something His Spirit has been leading me to pray over my dear ones.
That, He would keep their hearts.

But as I went back to look up the reference, I thought we all needed this reminder. 
You’ll want to go read the whole chapter. ❤️It’s short and powerful. 
Pray it over your loved ones and yourself! 

In a word, beloved, you can REST.

You don’t have to do the “keeping” let Him. 

He is so much better at it.

And it begins, Psalm 121- I will lift up my eyes....
#liftupyoureyes #seekandsavorpodcast #trustheprocess #heisthekeeper #restfortheweary #dailydevo #parentingquotes
Last night under the stars God showed up as He alw Last night under the stars God showed up as He always does. 
Sometimes we are just too busy, too stressed or too self-absorbed to notice! 
He went before us preparing hearts to slow down and focus on the battleground we are living in every day. 
A battleground requires a battle plan and it begins with REMEMBERING the goodness of our God.
I’ll share more pictures later on in stories but today as I get ready to board the plane and come home I just needed to exhale  a Thanksgiving and give a short reminder that if you feel like a battle is swirling around you it’s because IT IS! 
And last night we discovered a battleground isn’t a bad place to be when your eyes are on Jesus, the author and protector of your faith! 
I’ll be announcing in the next few days when I’ll start the live Bible study of my E-book “Let All The Weary World Rejoice.” I can’t wait to do this with you! 
Grab your copy at the link in my bio or stories! 
#liftupyoureyes #seekandsavorpodcast #hopeforthefuture #lifeafterloss #managinganxiety #trustinthelord #restinhim
"Father God, please use the dead things to nourish "Father God, please use the dead things to nourish the soil of my heart," I cried!

I didn't even know where that came from.

But it was the cry that surfaced when he began tilling my heart.

As we have traveled this "grieving with hope" journey, I have realIzed a few things.

One, our hope is not in our circumstances but rather in our God...The God who brings life from death. 
Also, this journey is not an either/or thing.

You don't grieve or rejoice.

You do both and you do them in motion.

What I mean by that is, the very act of "lifting up our eyes" in hope is, us taking a step of faith into the lives that God still has for us!
It's trusting that though we may have lost a job, a relationship, a title or a loved one, God is already in the act of bringing life from that.
Praise His name forever! ❤️
#liftupyoureyes #seekandsavorpodcast #hopeforthefuture #renewyourmind #joycomesinthemorning #lifeafterloss #hopespringseternal #rejoicealways
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 continue living, our spirits need the word’s breathed by God to sustain our souls.
Breathed by God beloved.
Of course it would be these words alone that 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, He spills out in the pressing. 
I want to drip Jesus. 
Don’t you?
#becausehelives #onethousandgifts #hestillmovesstones #renewyourmind #hopefortheweary #liftupyoureyes #seekandsavorpodcast
One day , I ran across this quote I’d saved from One day , I ran across this quote I’d saved from T. Davis Bunn-
“The whole world's out there screaming for our attention and only one little voice in our heart is whispering ;The answers not out there. It's in here.”
Oh how I want to listen to that still small voice beloved! 

There have been times in my life I desperately wanted to hear from God. You have too. 
Isaiah 30:21 says,
“And your ears shall hear a word behind you saying, This is the way, walk in it.”
Now more than ever it’s imperative that the sheep know the Good Shepherds voice. 
We could just make up our own path but why would we do that when He can see down the road? 
He can direct our steps and lead us in triumphant procession. 
Want to hear more on this topic? 
Check out the Seek and Savor podcast in my bio or on my website. 
Episodes like: 
How to Hear the  Voice of God in a World That’s Loud. 
#liftupyoureyes #seekandsavorpodcast #listentogod #hopeforthefuture #trustandbelieve #dailydevotion #rejoicealways #lifeafterloss
I laced up my shoes and headed out the door determ I laced up my shoes and headed out the door determined to get my walk in before the sun set, much sooner than I’d like. 
It was unseasonably warm and I only needed a light jacket. 
As I exhaled the stress of the day and inhaled His presence, I began to lay my requests before Him.
Ten minutes later I found myself switching over from prayer to worry and strategizing how I could help the Lord in the things I’d  asked him to do. 
I pulled myself up short and pictured myself literally handing it all over to Jesus, again. I’m sorry, Lord. I let out the breath I didn’t know I was holding. 
I need you.

There is comfort in abandonment friends. 

When we cling so tightly to our plans and our will, we start to fear they will be taken from us.

They become something we must protect.

When we abandon ourselves, all that we are and all that is ours to God, there is freedom in the releasing. 
It’s a laying down of our will so that we can pick up His. 
Though the plans we lay for ourselves may or may not come to pass, it doesn’t mean God’s plans for us are over or that He isn’t good.

I breathe out my agenda and inhale His. 

There must be an emptying and filling for our hearts to grow.
It’s a bit like breathing.”

“For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah. 29:1 (NIV)

#liftupyoureyes #seekchrist #seekandsavorpodcast #renewyourmind #anxiteyrelief #hoperestored #lifeafterloss #joycomesinthemorning #dailydevotionals
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