Enjoy this devotional from FlourishWriters student Laura Pettit No way! I am not a fearful person! Or am I? Is it okay to step into my dream? These were my journaling reflections as I sat alone at my kitchen table, allowing anxiety to rise like a volcano spewing its lethal contents. Doubts shadowing my thoughts, holding me captive as the rays…
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Enjoy this devotional from FlourishWriters student Jennifer Thayer Knight “But Lord, you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation” (Lamentation 5:19 NLT). Drip, drip, I watched each drip as the fluid came down from the IV bag and flowed into my arm. Deep under the covers of my bed, I wondered how my life had gotten to…
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Enjoy this devotional from FlourishWriters student Carolyn Dale Newell “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well” (Psalm 139:14 NKJV). “I am what I am.” These words hung above my teenage bed. I hated myself, and I wanted to be anyone but me. Anyone but a girl…
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Enjoy this devotional from FlourishWriters student Jennifer Williams It was the February snow falling that lured me outside because evidently I’m one of those rare people that love winter. I walked toward my favorite path in the woods. The forest floor was turning into something ethereal the way the snow fell quietly. Light, airy fluff. It was right then the…
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Enjoy this devotional from FlourishWriters student Dawn Ward Habakkuk 2:2-3 The Message Version: “And then God answered: ‘Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision-message is a witness pointing to what’s coming. It aches for the coming-it can hardly wait! And it doesn’t lie….
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Enjoy this devotional from FlourishWriters student Melissa Smith Our voices and hands joined together as songs of praise rose from our lips. Below us, the wide-open spaces of South Sudan spread out in every direction. The little propeller plane bounced along carrying me and nine other souls out of our comfort zones and into adventure with our God. Leaving my…
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