From time to time, cast a quick glance over your shoulder and look for your footprints. Watch where they lead. Towards God? Towards redemption? Towards the cross? Towards love?
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Maybe your life still feels small, even after focusing on prayer, discipleship, attending church, and giving to the poor. Maybe you just want to be be jealous for a few minutes of someone whose life seems bigger and better than yours. Maybe you know your life would be easier, more comfortable, just BETTER, with what other people have. But the truth, written in God’s own Holy Book, is that a quiet, little life can be the best life.
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Today’s fast-paced, constantly-connected, productivity-centered world makes rest infrequent yet all the more important. It is when we are at rest that we recuperate, reflect, heal, grow, and invest in what matters most. How can we use this summertime as a culturally significant reminder to rest? It involves both finding and making.
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Introducing The Forge: A Family Ministry Blog.
God's love for us, a love that is fierce, tremendous, and beyond measure, is something we can understand, even in the smallest way, when we look upon our children and our families.
I envision this blog as a place of comfort and encouragement, of motivation and reminders, of discourse and ideas. It is a place for us as parents, when we feel like imposters, to come for a pep-talk. It is also a place for us, when we feel good enough to relax into the better days, to feel heartened. It is a place to celebrate and to give thanks for our little disciples. Parenting is hard, but it is good work, work that brings us indescribable joy.
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