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Spiritual exercise: Prayer
Resting Melanie Nixon Resting Melanie Nixon

Spiritual exercise: Prayer

Visio Divina (meaning divine vision, seeing with the eyes of your heart): The movement of this prayer uses a visual to help guide and set our minds on prayer thus allowing God to speak into our hearts through the image. Invitation. Find a quiet and comfortable place to be still with God…

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Guest feature
Reaching Out Melanie Nixon Reaching Out Melanie Nixon

Guest feature

Welcome. A dear soul—and friend— Bekah Lusko shares a portion of her musical story and faith journey:

Hi! I’m a musician. For a long time, I never felt worthy enough to call myself that. If I’m honest, I didn’t feel worthy to be called a lot of things - wife, mother, Christian. I laid all of my accomplishments and works before me as evidence, compared them with others around me, and concluded that I just wasn’t good enough. I used that excuse to drop the ball in so many aspects of my life…

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Dwelling places
Reflection Melanie Nixon Reflection Melanie Nixon

Dwelling places

Hello Friends!

I thank you for joining me on this blog journey. I thought I’d share if you may be wondering why the name “dwelling places” keeps appearing and why the title of my reflections. It is in recognizing the patterns of my daily beginnings. Often I find myself waking and feeling like today’s hard. And asking, how am I going to get going, or get through it? Do you feel this struggle?

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