Encouragement Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow

If You Start A Book Club….

Deborah — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:56:27 +0000

If you start a book club and if you meet once a month, every month for almost three years, and if you have a book society retreat in the nearby city for a long weekend in January of 2023 and again in March of 2024, then you might find your book clerisy in February of [...]

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Souldeep Symphony: Soulsafe Space

Deborah — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 23:33:43 +0000

“Most people’s souls are buried beneath mounds of activity, excuses, comforts, noise, addictions, laughter, small talk, romance, therapy, and entertainment. We are like passengers on a subway, moving quickly from one obligation, relationship, or activity to another, seldom stopping to wonder who and where we really are. Sometimes it seems like the church is trying [...]

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Helpful, Hopeful, Beautiful

Deborah — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:22:00 +0000

My criteria for who and what and where I spend my time online and on social media has always held certain parameters. I named it more specifically in this way. What I’m following must be helpful, hopeful, or beautiful. We become consumed by what we consume. Every so often I reassess. What once was helpful [...]

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Keep At It

Deborah — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:15:00 +0000

To all the creators and dreamers and makers and vulnerable people showing up to share their work, words, music. {and this is all of us, anyone breathing, because we all create in some way, all made to produce art of a myriad of types by our Creator} • A Word For You • Keep at [...]

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The Loneliness of Silence

Deborah — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 22:04:35 +0000

“God invites us to turn to each other as ones in whom Christ dwells as living homes of God to confess His goodness until we begin to believe it.” ~ Emily P. Freeman I’d loved lifting the blind each morning and taking a peek at the new sunrise breaking across the dawn of sky,What had [...]

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Wherein I Contemplate Choosing to Listen to The Voice of Truth

Deborah — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:38:50 +0000

Once upon a time, which is another way of saying, probably ten or twelve years ago, there was a little brother and his big sister. As it happens, this little boy and little bit bigger girl belonged to me. And as the history of our story goes, we had a new music CD that my [...]

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