Ripple-Effect Faith with Twyla Franz

Sometimes pink peeks through, like a ribbon of lace crisscrossing the sky. I see the color from my car and wish there were another stoplight before my turn so I could take it in a moment longer. As soon as I pull into the driveway, I jot down a line. Because the sunrise spilling through the cracks in the clouds has me thinking. 
Perhaps God knows we need the pink–a glimmer of His goodness–to hint at what we can't fully see. 
Could it be that the contrast of cloud and color makes the pink pop? That without the leaden grays we'd take the light for granted?
What if God embeds hope in plain sight to proclaim that He's present?
Maybe the slivers of space between the clouds resemble the cracks in a clay pot, the brilliant pink the light of Christ inside us. And when we feel most shattered is when He is most readily seen.
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"There he is!" she said as my son hopped out of the car in front of the school. I could hear the genuineness in her voice through my window as I watched a staff member pull him into a hug right there in the car line.
I drove away teary over this unsolicited example of a "there you are" mindset.
Perhaps you've heard the term. 
"There you are" is attention focused outwards. It's a welcome anomaly in a world where we're overly consumed with ourselves. An others-focused mentality in a sea of "here I am." A moment of intentionality overriding our default preoccupation.
It stops you because it's so rare. Tells you, even without words, that you matter.
 
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If you want to become more resilient to change, disappointment, stress, betrayal, loss, anxiety, long seasons of waiting, or the tender journey of recovery, this gratitude challenge is for you.
 
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"Manassah" song by Anna Golden.
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When one of those "unfixables" happens–a relationship strain, health complications stacked on top of a financial drain, an irreversible injustice–it can feel like you're in a battle zone. You vs. the world. Like the implications of what you can't do are strapped to your back.
Makes you feel unmoored and helpless. Because you'd change the situation if you could, but it seems there's no easy path forward, no win-win resolution within reach, no reversing the hurt.
I'm thinking of this–thinking of you–as I read Deuteronomy 1. 
 
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I relate to the way the Israelites prayed. When something terrible happens, I want God to take it away. To make life go back to how it was. I expect God's rescue to look like reversal or extraction.
But threaded through this ancient story is a new way to pray.
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