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Dwelling places
Reflection Melanie Nixon Reflection Melanie Nixon

Dwelling places

Hello Friends!

How are you doing? I hope you are having some time to bask in the Lord and are noticing His graceful presence in your life. We certainly live in a time of tensions and can feel the pull in both directions. We may agree and disagree with the tensions and they can make us feel uncomfortable. I’d like to share with you some of the tensions within my own place of being. More so encourage you…

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Spiritual exercise: Prayer
Resting Melanie Nixon Resting Melanie Nixon

Spiritual exercise: Prayer

Visio Divina (meaning divine vision, seeing with the eyes of your heart): The movement of this prayer uses a visual to help guide and set our minds on prayer thus allowing God to speak into our hearts through the image. Invitation. Find a quiet and comfortable place to be still with God…

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Guest feature
Reaching Out Melanie Nixon Reaching Out Melanie Nixon

Guest feature

Welcome. A dear soul—and friend— Bekah Lusko shares a portion of her musical story and faith journey:

Hi! I’m a musician. For a long time, I never felt worthy enough to call myself that. If I’m honest, I didn’t feel worthy to be called a lot of things - wife, mother, Christian. I laid all of my accomplishments and works before me as evidence, compared them with others around me, and concluded that I just wasn’t good enough. I used that excuse to drop the ball in so many aspects of my life…

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