I’m a definitions girl. I absolutely love looking up words to add to my understanding of their meaning. Even words that seem common or ones that I already know well, I always seem to gain a better or deeper understanding every time I implement this practice. When you hear the word “goodness,” what comes to your mind? I’m guessing you…
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But the fruit of the Spirit is kindness…
What is kindness? I’ve been thinking a lot about this fruit, particularly leading up to this post, and I have found myself searching for expressions of this virtue everywhere I go. Reading the headlines can cause one to think that perhaps kindness is extinct. It’s hard to come by. What is perhaps even more sad to me is that it…
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But the fruit of the Spirit is patience…
Patience. This is the hard one. For me. There seem to be few things that have tried, tested, and perhaps on my better days even grown patience in me like motherhood has. I know that this one line might feel disqualifying to those of you who aren’t moms, but just hang in there with me. Patience applies to us all….
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But the fruit of the Spirit is peace…
“I just don’t have a peace about it.” How many times have you heard that statement? How many times have you said it yourself? While I don’t believe that there is anything inherently wrong with that phrase, I do think that it has somehow led to a misunderstanding of what peace really is. “I have said these things to you,…
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But the fruit of the Spirit is joy…
Welcome back to our series on the fruit of the Spirit! I think I’d go so far as to say that this passage in Galatians is one of my all-time favorites in Scripture. I’ve known and loved these words since I was a young child. Of course, it wasn’t until I was much older that I began to understand their…
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