Weekly intention

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It’s easy to coast through life and never go deeper than a surface relationship with just about everyone… our spouse, our friends, our co-workers, and even God. This week, examine your life through the lens of your availability and your vulnerability. Are you brave enough to learn to love – to really love? To forgive? To surrender your control? To rest instead of hurry? To worship instead of wander? If you thought to yourself “yes” for even a second, this week’s intention is for you.
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Gracious God, you are my home. No matter where I am in this life – for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, wandering or worshiping – you welcome me home every hour, every day. For this standing homecoming, I am eternally grateful.

Create in me a heart made of flesh and not stone. Cleanse my spirit so that I can receive you full to my brim, and overflow with the words, the deeds, and the motives that are in lockstep with those of Jesus.

Slow me down so that I may hear your voice, heed your guidance, recognize that which I’m called to do, and do it in unwavering, courageous obedience. Remind me that hurrying and rush are some of the enemy’s favorite tools of distracting me, and that great things take time. Don’t let me miss you in the mayhem, Lord.

Transform my eyes to those of Christ. Anoint my ears so that I may hear the whispers of my own heart. Enlighten the truth before me, and affix my focus to it like the magi to the star that led them to the Messiah. Take me, unashamedly and gladly, to my knees to offer thanksgiving for each and every blessing, not only those I see but also those I do not see.

Amen.

Create in me a pure heart, o God, and renew a steadfast spirit in me.

Psalms 51:10 NIV

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Though baptized in her youth, Jamie Prince found Christ at age 39, in the midst of a battle of sickness and healing that forever changed her life. She's the wife of nearly fourteen years to David, the mother of Reese, Jack, and Emmy, and owns a marketing/events firm, Flourish. She and her family live in Greenville, South Carolina. 

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