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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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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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Love for the Fatherless Ones.

Posted on June 15, 2019June 16, 2019by tara.dickson

Father’s Day. It should be such an easy holiday, right? A barbecue, a tie, a homemade card. It wasn’t for me and isn’t for so many and yet now, more than ever, I see the need to celebrate Fatherhood. The work these men  are called to is holy. It’s one only they can do. As […]

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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 Empty Your Heart of Anxiety.

Posted on June 4, 2018June 4, 2018by tara.dickson

“When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul. “ Ps. 94:19 How to empty your heart of anxiety. I know that sounds too good to be true! Am I an expert on this? That depends on how you look at it. I have had more than my fair share of things […]

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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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You Were Made to Do Hard and Holy Things!

Posted on February 4, 2018February 27, 2018by tara.dickson

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about COMFORT. How we like it, how we arrange our lives and our schedules to create as many moments of it as we can get. I am chief among comfort seekers. I love nothing better than a warm fire, cozy blanket and hot drink while being surrounded by my […]

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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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A little bit of fall and a little bit of Christmas sparkle, it seems appropriate for this first day of December. 
I stepped into Autumn with great excitement as I always do.  The anticipation of what was to come felt hopeful. 
And then the plug was pulled and life happened and the hope of all things being made new seemed to circle the drain.  Has that happened to you beloved? 
You start to Hope and then more hardship appears on the horizon. 
Perhaps it happens when we aren’t fixing our eyes on the one who is HOPE but instead on what we “hope” will come to pass. 
“Without becoming weak in faith, he contemplated his own body….. now as good as dead… yet with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief.” Rom. 4:19-20
Abraham did it. 
He looked at himself and saw the great LACK to be able to bring about the promises of God. 
But He didn’t get stuck there.
Then he lifted up His eyes to the ONE who is Hope and he did not waver in unbelief.
If life has come at you full force dear ones, and the anticipation of what is to come feels like dread instead of HOPE, come with me. 
Turn your eyes away from your body as good as dead and lift them up to our Savior, the long awaited Immanuel, God with us. ❤️
#heiswithus #hopeforthefuture #rejoicealways #restfortheweary #liftupyoureyes #seekandsavorpodcast

A little bit of fall and a little bit of Christmas sparkle, it seems appropriate for this first day of December.
I stepped into Autumn with great excitement as I always do. The anticipation of what was to come felt hopeful.
And then the plug was pulled and life happened and the hope of all things being made new seemed to circle the drain. Has that happened to you beloved?
You start to Hope and then more hardship appears on the horizon.
Perhaps it happens when we aren’t fixing our eyes on the one who is HOPE but instead on what we “hope” will come to pass.
“Without becoming weak in faith, he contemplated his own body….. now as good as dead… yet with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief.” Rom. 4:19-20
Abraham did it.
He looked at himself and saw the great LACK to be able to bring about the promises of God.
But He didn’t get stuck there.
Then he lifted up His eyes to the ONE who is Hope and he did not waver in unbelief.
If life has come at you full force dear ones, and the anticipation of what is to come feels like dread instead of HOPE, come with me.
Turn your eyes away from your body as good as dead and lift them up to our Savior, the long awaited Immanuel, God with us. ❤️
#heiswithus #hopeforthefuture #rejoicealways #restfortheweary #liftupyoureyes #seekandsavorpodcast
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‘’Tis Mercy All” hangs in my bathroom. I see it everyday and yet I forget that living a life of faith often requires “walking by faith,” NOT by sight. 
Then His Word reminds me, trusting in Christ is a privilege NOT a right and even our faith in Him is a gift! 
It’s true, “’Tis Mercy All!”❤️
Happy Thanksgiving to those who are walking. Whether today looks like a faith walk or you can actually SEE His goodness, keep walking!

‘’Tis Mercy All” hangs in my bathroom. I see it everyday and yet I forget that living a life of faith often requires “walking by faith,” NOT by sight.
Then His Word reminds me, trusting in Christ is a privilege NOT a right and even our faith in Him is a gift!
It’s true, “’Tis Mercy All!”❤️
Happy Thanksgiving to those who are walking. Whether today looks like a faith walk or you can actually SEE His goodness, keep walking!
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“We were created to live in a real, heart-gripping, agenda-setting, behavior forming awe of God. 
But other awes kidnap our hearts. 
Awe of creation, awe of other people, and awe of ourselves shove the awe of God out of our hearts. 
So, we need grace to see again, to tremble again, and to bow down again at the feet of the One who deserves our awe.” - Paul David Tripp 
Meditating on this today and letting the awe of God transform my heart.❤️
What thought is filling your heart today friends?
#truthfortoday #hopeforthefuture #renewyourmind #rejoice #dailydevotion

“We were created to live in a real, heart-gripping, agenda-setting, behavior forming awe of God.
But other awes kidnap our hearts.
Awe of creation, awe of other people, and awe of ourselves shove the awe of God out of our hearts.
So, we need grace to see again, to tremble again, and to bow down again at the feet of the One who deserves our awe.” - Paul David Tripp
Meditating on this today and letting the awe of God transform my heart.❤️
What thought is filling your heart today friends?
#truthfortoday #hopeforthefuture #renewyourmind #rejoice #dailydevotion
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God desires to meet us smack dab in the middle of ALL of it! 
We may not get to choose what life throws at us but we can certainly choose how we think about those things. 
We can take every thought captive. 
We can fix our eyes on Jesus,
And we can choose to let His love and peace fill our hearts. ❤️

God desires to meet us smack dab in the middle of ALL of it!
We may not get to choose what life throws at us but we can certainly choose how we think about those things.
We can take every thought captive.
We can fix our eyes on Jesus,
And we can choose to let His love and peace fill our hearts. ❤️
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In case you need to remember that His eyes are still on you beloved…
Grief may blur your vision but it doesn’t blur his. 
His eyes are on you just like they are on the sparrow.
When life gets hard and it feels like one attack from the enemy after another, we may feel our vision blur. 
But this is when His Spirit whispers, “Eyes on me beloved. Lift up your eyes. Seek my face. Savor my presence. I’m there. Look for me.”
Begin to remember His faithfulness.
Find joy “in the midst of pain.”
See the evidence of God’s tender mercies. 

He lines the grief with unexpected moments of joy like a bird lines her nest with feathers from her own breast so the harsh sticks won’t harm her babies.

You are loved friends. You are so loved.

#lifeafterloss #nothingiswasted #hopeforthefuture #ishallyetpraisehim #joycomesinthemorning #rejoicealways

In case you need to remember that His eyes are still on you beloved…
Grief may blur your vision but it doesn’t blur his.
His eyes are on you just like they are on the sparrow.
When life gets hard and it feels like one attack from the enemy after another, we may feel our vision blur.
But this is when His Spirit whispers, “Eyes on me beloved. Lift up your eyes. Seek my face. Savor my presence. I’m there. Look for me.”
Begin to remember His faithfulness.
Find joy “in the midst of pain.”
See the evidence of God’s tender mercies.

He lines the grief with unexpected moments of joy like a bird lines her nest with feathers from her own breast so the harsh sticks won’t harm her babies.

You are loved friends. You are so loved.

#lifeafterloss #nothingiswasted #hopeforthefuture #ishallyetpraisehim #joycomesinthemorning #rejoicealways
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I was thinking this morning about the “anticipation” the Christmas season brings. I realized that as I’ve grown older this anticipation has been joined by an ache for “all things to be made right” in my own world and in the world at large. 
Isn’t that the definition of longing for Jesus? 
We know He walks with us. 
His very presence brings comfort.
And yet…
All is not yet, as it should be.
As we step into this season of giving thanks and anticipation, let’s be okay with the ache as well. 
Because we won’t feel truly at HOME until we see Him face to face. 
❤️
#letallthewearyworldrejoice #hopeforchristmas #rejoicealways #onethousandgifts

I was thinking this morning about the “anticipation” the Christmas season brings. I realized that as I’ve grown older this anticipation has been joined by an ache for “all things to be made right” in my own world and in the world at large.
Isn’t that the definition of longing for Jesus?
We know He walks with us.
His very presence brings comfort.
And yet…
All is not yet, as it should be.
As we step into this season of giving thanks and anticipation, let’s be okay with the ache as well.
Because we won’t feel truly at HOME until we see Him face to face.
❤️
#letallthewearyworldrejoice #hopeforchristmas #rejoicealways #onethousandgifts
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