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Iron Acres Now: New Beginnings
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010. If you found encouragement in the reflections on this blog, I invite you to join me at the new home of iron acres now, 91-1. It was when I was happiest that I longed most.The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing.to find the place where all the beauty came from." CS Lewis, Till We Have Faces.
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Iron Acres Now: May 2009
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Friday, May 29, 2009. Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us." Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz. In Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller writes about the struggle we all have with accepting grace. I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace. I am too prideful to accept the grace of God. It isn't that I want to earn my own way to give something to God, it's that I want to earn my own way so I won't be charity. Yea doubt...
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Iron Acres Now: June 2009
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Thursday, June 25, 2009. Solitude- The creation of an open, empty space in our lives by purposefully abstaining from interaction with other human beings, so that, freed from competing loyalties, we can be found by God." Life With God Bible. For the past few days I have been attending a Renovare conference in San Antonio, Texas. The first night we were presented with an important question, what did you come here for? That question persisted in my mind as I returned to my room that night. I come here for?
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Iron Acres Now: April 2009
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,. Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,. And when we find ourselves in the place just right,. Twill be in the valley of love and delight.". For 16 years I lived my dream of having a hobby farm. I faced the learning curve of animal husbandry with childish delight as a succession of creatures- honeybees, chickens, ducks, geese, llamas, horses, goats- came under my care. That, and the arrival of grandchildren. Then he s...
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Iron Acres Now: August 2009
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009. Last night I was reminded of St. Patrick's Breastplate, a beautiful prayer that speaks of the presence of Christ in my life:. And Christ to right. Christ within both day and night. Technology has made it possible to reach out to each other on the internet as this post did for me today. The picture of a young father holding his newborn spoke volumes to me about the fatherhood of God, especially the tender love He has for me in my weakness and vulnerability. In a new way today.
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Iron Acres Now: Struggling
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010. I awoke this morning from a bad dream. A dream about struggle and overcoming evil that would not die. I wondered what evil in my heart is winning a battle for my soul. The dream gave my morning prayer more conviction,. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit." Psalm 51:10-12 (KJV). A Prayer for En...
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Iron Acres Now: November 2009
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Thursday, November 26, 2009. It's Not About Turkey and Football. It's not about turkey and football, although those have been the main ingredients of most of my 60something Thanksgivings. It's about giving. And thanks. We are nourished by the giving and the gratefulness even more than we are nourished by the turkey and dressing and pumpkin pie. Our souls are nourished by God. It is in the giving of thanks that we acknowledge the existence of the One who formed us. The One who gives life. His love for us.
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Iron Acres Now: April 2010
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010. If you found encouragement in the reflections on this blog, I invite you to join me at the new home of iron acres now, 91-1. Sunday, April 4, 2010. From Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: The Prayers of Walter Brueggemann. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). It was when I was happiest that I longed most.The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing.to find the place where all the beauty came from." CS Lewis, Till We Have Faces.
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Iron Acres Now: September 2009
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Monday, September 21, 2009. We arrange our lives as best we can,. To keep your holiness at bay,. With our pieties,. Our secret ideologies,. Safe, virtuous, settled. You and your dreams,. You and your visions,. You and your purposes,. You and your commands,. You and our neighbors. We find your holiness not at bay,. But probing, pervading,. Insisting, demanding,. And we yield, sometimes gladly,. Sometimes late.or soon. We yield because you, beyond us, are our God. We are your creatures met by your holiness,.