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Category: Friendship With God

Worship ...

Tonight our A Way of Life class is discussing the chapter from the first manual on worship. This reminded me that I have Mark Labberton’s book “The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God’s Call to Justice” on my shelf. So I opened it up and started to read … Whoa ... I am going to […]

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Only one thing ...

" ... there is only one thing that separates us from God, and it is not our sin. It is our self-righteousness." (James Bryan Smith - The Good and Beautiful God)

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That one place ...

Prayer is confusing to us. We have received all kinds of mixed messages … and often we feel paralyzed, inadequate and guilty. I have to believe God does not want us to feel this way. He just wants us to come to him as we are with what we have and to do our best. […]

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Honest prayer ...

I am a strong proponent of honest prayer. I really have no time for pretending I am more holy, more pious, more cleaned up than I actually am. Too much pretending exhausts me. And I believe that prayer is one of the primary places in our lives with God where we are deeply tempted to […]

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Don't be Moses ...

"When I reach the world to come, God will not ask me why I wasn't more like Moses. He will ask me why I wasn't more like Zusya." (early Hasidic leader, Rabbi Zusya)

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Be holy where you are ...

I am thoughtful this week about the idea that most of human unhappiness stems from within. We are unhappy, many of us, with ourselves. I often wonder what kind of energy might be freed up in the human soul if we simply were done disliking ourselves, berating ourselves, wishing we were someone else. This is […]

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Welcome to Alice at Dawn. My short posts are meant to be regular reminders to keep walking, to keep living, to continue to listen to the voice deep within your spirit that whispers ... this is the way. Walk in it.

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