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The Kind of Leader God Chooses
Over the past few days, a persistent theme has been seen in my daily time in Scripture: God gives grace to the humble. It is comforting because it invites us into rest, and confronting because it asks us to release our grip on self-reliance. James writes it plainly: “God opposes the proud but gives grace…
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The Power of Rest
Here’s what I’m pondering… The most common feedback I hear is: “With you, I feel so much peace and rest.” (In fact, at the last event we had, one woman’s husband said to her – “You are so calm!”) I also have heard several women say to me: “Merri Ellen, don’t take what you carry…
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Kelly Shares What Happened…
It was a delight to interview Kelly Young from Teen Challenge on what happened for her recently in learning to encounter Jesus in a whole new way. We discussed compassion fatigue and church and pastoral ministry and what has shifted. May you be encouraged too… Learn more about the 5 week FOUNDATIONAL course here: https://www.merriellen.com/intro-course…
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Help for Insomnia
I’ve noticed a recent increase in people’s insomnia and have compiled a helpful resource for you to use and share with loved ones. This includes both practical information and how to pray! If you have confessed Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, you have been given a rich inheritance. His blood and His Holy Spirit…
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What Changed for Me? (Ashes to Beauty)
Friends recently asked me what changed in my life this past year that brought on so much blessing, healing, and crazy adventures of delight and joy in Jesus. I’ve been pondering this… “God, why have you shown such grace and mercy?” I have seen God do some INCREDIBLE things. (This summer, I watched God bring…
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How do you enter God’s presence?
This question… “How do you enter God’s presence?”, is so beautiful and has been asked of me many times lately. The answer from God’s Word is so refreshing… 1. Be still. Get quiet to allow Him to lead you. Ps 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I…
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Be Still :)
Be still and know that God is God and… you are not. This truth is the best thing you can fully embrace. He holds the world together, not you. 🙂 What He wants to do in and through you is far greater – if you trust Him – than if you try to control and…
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You Let Me Rest
I’ve been meditating on this old familiar Psalm quite a bit lately… May you too turn it into a prayer for yourself… “You let me rest in fields of green grass. You lead me to streams of peaceful water, and you refresh my life. You are true to your name, and you lead me along…
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Travel mugs in the rain
I’ve never been one for travel mugs. To me a travel mug seems like an oxymoron. To me, a hot drink is to be enjoyed when you sit still either alone with God or with a friend lingering together enjoying wonderful conversation. A travel mug to me speaks of rush and hurry without entirely slowing…
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Take Off Your Shoes
My sabbatical mentor passed this along… (From: Seasons of Your Heart by Macrina Wiederkehr) My bare feet walk the earth reverently for everything keeps crying, Take off your shoes The ground you stand on is holy The ground of your being is holy. When the wind sings through the pines like the breath of God…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 