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Declutter Your Soul with Imaginative Prayer

- By Alice Mills

To declutter one’s mind means understanding what that clutter is. Lies that I believe concerning my reality are one sort of mess. Disturbing images in my mind also clutter my soul on a regular basis. However, I live in so much more freedom because I learned how to take thoughts captive through imaginative prayer. I have learned to declutter my soul with Jesus. I first read about this particular prayer exercise in Beth Moore’s book, Breaking Free. I had recently fasted for three days because my relationship with my boyfriend was going nowhere. I was a single mom with four…

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You are the Pearl of Great Price

- By Alice Mills

A second marriage brings with it a number of regrets. If onlys tend to crop up. If only, we think, we knew then what we know now. If only we weren’t dragging along an ex-husband or ex-wife and the damages from that marriage into the new one. I was thinking along those dispirited lines one morning several months into my marriage to my wonderful husband as I read the parable in Matthew about the pearl of great price. Sometimes too many sermons on a subject will close our minds to the possibilities in the Word, and so I reread the familiar…

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Mindfulness and Confession: Reflections in the Mirror

- By Alice Mills

Mindfulness, in the early stages of my Christianity, did not exist, though I sure knew about confession. I believed the truest thing about me was a list of all my sins. And as a person for whom shame was a way of being, the idea of confessing my sins to someone else besides God seemed impossible. To begin with, I couldn’t even share my feelings with others, much less those faults and weaknesses I perceived in myself. I could barely admit my feelings to myself, much less others. I remember at one point listing out all of my transgressions on…

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Twelve-year-old Miranda Winklesworth is furious that she didn’t get more time with her terminally ill mother before she died. And she never imagined she’d be arrested for attempted chronocide when her angry outburst broke the family’s old grandfather clock—an act which would turn her life upside down and send her spiraling through time…and time again. Killing Time is a mind-bending fantasy that pits Miranda against Time itself and her anti-Miranda until she must face her own personal black hole. Along the way, she encounters a feisty watch and some virtual realities that defy her wildest imaginations. Buy or Read for Free on Kindle Unlimited