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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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Vines & Vineyards
Devotional Melanie Nixon Devotional Melanie Nixon

Vines & Vineyards

State of Your Soul

We often come to a place in our life where we experience a shift or sense change, a transition in our mind, body, heart—our whole being.

We ask “What is going on inside of me?” or say “Something feels different”—a helpful way to be okay with a shift, change, or transition is to first acknowledge it, and then consider the “state of your soul.”

God invites us where we are.

Recently I was sharing with a friend that life can feel like seasonal patterns, and in a similar way our spiritual journey does as well. Not only do we experience…

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Vines & Vineyards
Devotional Melanie Nixon Devotional Melanie Nixon

Vines & Vineyards

God invites us where we are.

Recently I was sharing with a friend that life can feel like seasonal patterns, and in a similar way our spiritual journey does as well. Not only do we experience the outward patterns of seasons but also the places of our interior whereby our life with God can feel like fall, winter, spring or summer. And sometimes a mix of two.

At times in our lives we may experience what feels like fall —the season where…

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