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    clutter - declutter - freedom - images - Imaginative Prayer - mind - prayer - Self Awareness - soul - strongholds

    Declutter Your Soul with Imaginative Prayer

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    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…

  • Imaginative Prayer - parable - Pearl - Pearl of Great Price - prayer - relationship to God - self worth

    You are the Pearl of Great Price

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    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…

  • confession - Forgiveness - freedom - Heart - Self Awareness - Self-forgiveness - Shame & Guilt

    Three Questions That Lead to Self Forgiveness

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    After a decade of no contact, my sixteen year old daughter lived with her father for about six months.  While I didn’t sleep a full night during that time, she seemed happy for the first three.  After that, things began to go south rather quickly, and soon, she came home, to both of our relief.  One day soon after, while we were at the grocery store, she mentioned that her whole life she had assumed that our divorce was her fault.  She had never mentioned this to me, the idea that somehow my divorce from an abuser could be laid at…