I have started a garden again this Spring. It is not something new I have never attempted before, but each one I do is a new adventure. Not every garden has been successful and I am unsure of how this one will produce either, but what is noticeably different this time is how the Lord […]
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Have you ever felt like you are the prodigal son’s sibling? Well, I am beginning to feel that way. I can hear the older brother angrily complaining to the Father that he had never left His side and had done everything he knew he was to do. He was unhappy because he felt the Father
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Someone wrote to ask me, “What do other communities do during the monthly gatherings?” So, I began to wonder … what are your 4th day community gatherings like? What do you do … what activities do you use to stimulate participation, encourage growth and maintain relationship in your communities? Weekends like Tres Dias, Cursillo and
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In my monthly newsletter I talked about moving forward in Christ. As we start this New Year I asked what actions you were taking to move forward from the ordinary to the extraordinary in your life. It is actually in moving from the point of origin (or reality) to the desired destination (by faith) that
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How do you feel about selling  handmade palanca and agape for others to give? We have a website that focuses on palanca and agape which, most often are little handmade gifts, among other things.  The site is created to be a resource for providing ideas for these gifts plus other things that are useful
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I LOVE palanca and agape. I want to tell you why I love it so much! Palanca and agape are tangible expressions of God’s Love. That, in and of itself is reason enough to have passion for it, but I also love it because it offers unlimited forms of creativity used to express His love
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Have you ever had an early morning drive thru blessing? Sounds kinda silly really, but I found that the value of the experience was in learning the power of blessing. I had been reading a book by Kerry Kirkwood titled, The Power of Blessing and it wasn’t too long after I finished it that I
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As I get closer to the big launch date for my little business ‘Powerful Palanca’  I find my anxiety level creeping up just a little. My head swims with all kinds of ideas but I have to stay focused on the tasks at hand and some of them seem monumental. I’ve had a friend that
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I never really gave it much thought, but have you ever wondered if being double minded is easy to stop? In fact, have you even realized that you were being that way? I had no idea that it was the root cause of so much anguish in my life. It wasn’t until I grew very
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“Enough Procrastination let Me lead you to your destination” is what the Lord said to me, when I was struggling with moving forward. It was the same old same old and I was getting nowhere! I didn’t want to continue down the same path because it was not leading me anywhere, in fact I was
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“OOHH My Gosh! That was amazing” Pop said, as we sat watching the TV. Yeah! I agreed, it was indeed amazing! As the reality of the moment sank in, even more about it became amazing to me. The entire family sat in my sister’s small living room as we watched the show. We knew that
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How do you feel when you have waiting for so long? Is it something you really hate? Sometimes its not all that hard, but when its all you’ve done and you wonder if the wait will ever end, do you give up or do you hang in? What are the things you are waiting for?Â
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I lived on the North Carolina coast in a small rural tourist dependent town and had grown weary of waiting on God for change in my life. There was good money to be made during the season, but when it ended most often that money was needed to survive until the season started over again
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Are you weary of waiting? Sometimes we are where we don’t want to be and when we are in that place we are look forward to what is to come. We are waiting and sometimes that is the only thing we can do before things will be different is to wait. Change will come with
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Have you let go of what holds you back, so that what has always been will not always be? The past can hold you back in countless ways, even when you least expect it. But, what has always been does not always have to be. While its hard to wait sometimes for life’s circumstances to
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What are you growing in your garden? Beliefs are like seeds and they produce after their own kind. Just like a seed grows, what I believe in my heart grows also. I look at my life to see what belief ‘seeds’ have I planted in my heart through the years and how long have they
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