All things life
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Don’t Judge the Journey
Do you ever have those days when you are so annoyed with people around you and more specifically how they behave? Maybe you have a co-worker that seems to be gunning for you. Or your spouse, how they behave each time you have an argument. Even, people you encounter on the road, at the bank, in everyday life. Let’s face it, people can be frustrating. My heart breaks today. I have been frustrated with someone I dearly love. I have wanted wholeness and healing for them, and I have hoped for every good thing to come their way. At each turn, when things didn’t go the way I thought would…
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Impatiently waiting…
Is there a way to wait well? Or to learn to rest in the waiting? Here's what has worked for me.
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House Cleaning
I laid in bed thinking back over the conversation I had just had with my youngest daughter. At 12, the world has become far more real and fears have less to do with boogey monsters but rather the world around us and her own fallen nature. She has expressed frustration several times that she hates that she is prone to disobey. She’s really a great kid and for the most part, quick to obey and desires know God more and more. But what had her upset this one particular night was fear. She had come up to get me out of bed to pray over her because she was afraid…
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Obedience is faith in action
This month Brett and I celebrated 14 years of being remarried. I can’t believe how far we have come! I never expected us to be in this place at this time. In my post https://marceehess.com/weddings-to-avoid/ I share about our first wedding. But I would love to share with you a little about second wedding. After being married 9 years, Brett and I divorced. After those years of marriage the only redeeming value was the two beautiful girls God blessed us with. Obviously, after our terrible marriage we had lots of pain and baggage we had created. But during our divorce I did my very best to destroy every shred of…
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Hopeful Expectation
Is every area of your life filled with sparkling hope? If not it is under a lie. Is there a way to have hope in all situations?
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Surrendering My Agenda
If you have read any of my posts it may not come as a surprise to you that I like to know what’s coming next. I enjoy learning what the future might look like and dreaming of all the possibilities. Once I am focused on what I perceive is next for the future, it’s hard to focus on much else. I just want to get started on my list of things that I assume will be steps to achieve this next thing. This is why I love check lists. I feel so accomplished when I check items of the list. It makes me feel like I am moving forward. I…
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To be known…
O, to be known. Do you remember the show Cheers from the 80’s? The one with the theme song “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”? The idea being that this bar, Cheers, was a place that you could go and be known and know you’re not alone. Isn’t that what we all want? We want to be known and loved. We want to know that people think of us. That they love us. They want to hang out with us. They enjoy our relationship. If you think like me, once we say yes we want to be known, then suddenly, we pull back. Our thoughts become less warm and fuzzy. What…
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Gratitude Matters
Is gratitude important? How can I live with gratitude in my life?
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Is Jesus really enough?
Is Jesus enough? How many of us would raise our hand to say, “Yes, Jesus really is enough for me”, but then in our next breath we behave as though our lives are falling apart because we don’t get that promotion, or our kids disobey, our clothes don’t fit right, our pumpkin spice latte is not on the menu any more, or we realize our foreseeable future is not going to be what we had hoped it might be. All teasing aside, there are times when we are asking God to perform a miracle in an area of our life or in healing a relationship or in providing financially, big…
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Living a recycled life
Do you ever feel like life is hopeless. You have made too many bad decisions that you have ruined your life? That maybe there is no hope for anything other than living a worthless life? God has a lot to say on the subject. Here is a little nugget.
