• broken - inner healing - Inner Vows - judgment - promises - strongholds - unforgiveness

    Promises You Should Definitely Break

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    I believe that it is a common phenomenon among parents that if they seem to agree to something, a child will take that as a definite promise.  That child will then move heaven and earth in order to hold his or her parent’s feet to the fire regarding the so-called promises.  But promises are a serious matter, of more weight than a child’s willfulness.  Promises are sacred, after all, which is why we make them publicly very infrequently. Making promises to oneself seems like a good thing.  After all, each of us fights the battle of daily discipline.  And on…

  • basket - Grace - light - names of God - Revelation - Strong tower - Tower

    At the Foot of the Strong Tower; a Revelation of Light

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    My youngest calls me by my first name.  Many mothers would find this disrespectful, but it is needs must with us.  You see, I don’t always answer to Mom.  I’m a writer, and so I spend a lot of my time in the whirl of ideas in my head.  For some reason, the word, Mom, doesn’t always pierce my consciousness. But float out the name, Alice, and my attention is yours.  I have been a parent of six for thirty years, so I have no excuse or reason why this would be so.  Fortunately God is not as scatterbrained as…

  • Emotion - emotions - feelings - Heart - Holy Spirit - love - mind - Self Awareness - soul

    In Defense of the Gift of Emotion

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    *I am reposting this blog about emotion because of a contemptuous response I recently received on Twitter. They castigated me for my post about feelings and positive thinking, informing me that being a Christian is about having faith, not feelings. I chose not to respond to them, but my heart often breaks for Christians who feel they must cut off their emotional lives. No wonder our art is not longer the driving force in the world, as it used to be. Emotions certainly must be filtered and examined. But in the end, while love is a decision, it is also…