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The Coffee Shop: Faith (part 1)
Devotional Melanie Nixon Devotional Melanie Nixon

The Coffee Shop: Faith (part 1)

How is your faith in God being formed or reshaped within this season of your life?‍ ‍

Maybe your faith in a loving God is just beginning.

Maybe this season is uncertain and dim at times.

Maybe you’ve been attentive to its ongoing slow, sure and steady shaping.

Maybe it is more fullness and energized movements.

Take a moment to gaze out a window or at a flickering candle and listen in to your

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this feels fitting:Friendship with Jesus
Reflection Melanie Nixon Reflection Melanie Nixon

this feels fitting:Friendship with Jesus

As the counting down or up to Christmas has arrived, the remembrance and celebration of Jesus’ coming to incarnate God’s presence for us, this feels fitting to have surfaced, the imagery and theme of Friendship with Jesus arising from within. And without. As I sit this morning making…

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