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What is my Reflection?

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For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. I Corinthians 13:12 NKJV

I am amazed every morning as I walk by the pond in our neighborhood. Some days its reflections take on the look of a watercolour on canvas. The beauty secret of our humble pond is not its size or even depth, but its stillness.

Do you sometimes wonder what people see when they look at our lives? Not many of us are rich, famous or amazingly smart. Neither our best efforts or our loudest boasting can change who God created us to be.

But there is a great victory in acceptance of who we truly are. Acceptance of God’s gift of grace gives us a quietness to our soul. As the peace of that stillness spreads across the surface of our life we will effortlessly reflect the vivid colors of the beauty of our Lord…

Taking Hold

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God has promises and callings for each of our lives. Being in the courts of the king is not about how important others think we are but in how much we long to be there. We may serve Him in some of the most unexpected way and places when we simply take hold of that for which He has taken hold of us.

Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.
Philippians 3:12 NKJV

Our Amazing God

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No matter how often we drive through Fancy Gap and see the low country stretching below I am always amazed. Our mighty creator God doesn’t skimp on details. Sometimes we are in that mountaintop experience in life. That awesome moment is not just because of its height but also because from there we see the depths of the valley. How special to know that He has promised to walk with us down through the depths of the shadows. No matter how deep or how dark His hand will guide us all the way home!