Tag: faith
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Fathoming God’s Great Love
By Lisa S. Tarno It’s been over a year that I have prayed in earnest, “Help me Lord to be firmly rooted, grounded and established in your love for me and to comprehend it, as it is hard to comprehend, but help me comprehend this love so I can be filled to the fullness of…
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Accepting What Is!
By Lisa S. Tarno I have prayed for some time now that God would fill me full of His grace and enable me to accept what is. It’s part of my prayer strategy to encase myself in a Galinda (from Wicked) like bubble of grace with all my interactions with people to just bounce off of…
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How Well Do We Really Trust Him?
By Lisa S. Tarno When life presses in hard to the point of extracting tears with something so innocuous… it’s a warning. We file our painful moments away in our bodies and minds so that we can cope but our bodies don’t forget. Along comes a trigger that reveals there are areas of deeper unhealed…
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Seek The Giver Not The Gift
By Lisa S. Tarno I have purposefully stepped back from the holiday fanfare due to my present circumstances of losing a parent prior to this season, but also as a reset for my way of thinking. After experiencing such a profound loss, one is indelibly changed. Some things come into clearer focus and all the…
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Coincidence Or Not?
By Lisa S. Tarno Do you believe in coincidence? That was the question on the table at our bookclub last night. As a believer in Christ, I think there is less coincidence out there than there is purpose and intention. That is my short answer. I wanted to give this some more thought than how…
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When You Stay Quiet…
By Lisa S. Tarno Sometimes it is better to not say much at all…especially when you are processing the hard stuff in life! A counselor once told me that. It’s like the larvae stage of a caterpillar…messy and not beautiful…but then the butterfly. In this larvae like stage of grieving and asking God questions, one…
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Wisdom And Perspective
By Lisa S. Tarno “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.” James 1:5 In my last blog, The Season of Whoa!, I spoke of bundled hardships that weighed heavily on my heart and mind. Life is like…
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The Season of “Whoa!”
By Lisa S. Tarno Susie Larson writes a question, “Have you ever gone through a season where, in your head, you knew you were loved by God, but in your heart, you felt absolutely cursed by Him?” (From “Your Powerful Prayers” book & study) I wrote in the margin, “Yep!” I really don’t like answering the…
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The Spiritual Redirect, Intent & Set
By Lisa S. Tarno Some of this blog article information comes from a great podcast I was listening to at the gym today from Mel Robbins, entitled: “How to Control Your Mind & Redirect Your Energy to Self Transformation” It was chock-full of great insights from professionals in neuroscience and psychology. I will make mention…
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A Splash Of Blessing
By Lisa S. Tarno I was mentally exhausted by some of the people in my life who would suck the life energy out of me if I let them. I approached my quiet time in God’s Word with reluctance because where I was studying, the book of Numbers, I doubted there would be anything refreshing…
A Write Way to Think 