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Caffeinated Conversations meets Five Minute Fridays {1 Peter 3.8-12 // Delight}

Today I’ve combined my weekly Caffeinated Conversations post with my weekly Five Minute Fridays post.

If you’re here for Five Minute Fridays and would rather not watch the whole vlog below, the Five Minute Fridays portion starts about 4:25.

{If you can’t see the video below, please visit the blog.}

Caffeinated Conversations meets Five Minute Fridays

1 Peter 3.8-12: Pursue Peace with Doves and Dragons

I’m joining a group of bloggers blogging through 1 Peter: Finding Encouragement in Troubling Times {An Inductive Bible Study} by Sue Edwards over the next nine weeks. This blog tour has been sponsored by Kregel Publishing, and I was provided a free copy of the Bible study book in exchange for my participation in the blog tour.

See all my posts in this series: 1 Peter.

1 Peter: Finding Encouragement in Troubling Times

Five Minute Fridays: Delight

“I will delight in the law of the Lord, I will meditate day and night. Then like a tree, firmly planted I’ll be, grounded in Your Word. Blessed is the one who follows the way of the Lord – blessed is the one!”

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When I heard the topic for today’s Five Minute Friday, I immediately found this song running through my head. Since it’s probably not a familiar song to most of you {but a great one to have stuck in your head}, I thought I’d share it in the vlog above!

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Five Minute Fridays: Real

I’m joining The Gypsy Mama’s Five Minute Friday: Real. Won’t you join us?



Real.

I find that I often live in a world of an alternate reality – a dream world. And I wonder if my dreams are the real world that I think I want to live in or if they are simply there to convince me that the real world that I live in is the best possible world for me.

Have you ever woken up from a dream that was so vivid and real-to-life that you wondered if it had actually happened or if you were dreaming? Lately I’ve been having very real dreams while sleeping – including people and places from my real life that are interacting in plausible ways that are definitely not real to my current life.

Are these “real” dreams a reflection of my heart’s true desires – the life I wish I lived – or are they simply a dream of what might have been had I taken different paths in life, in an attempt to convince me that my real life is better than my dream life?

Jeremiah 17.9 reminds me that “the heart is deceitful above all else, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

I must trust that God is in control of all of life – my real life and my dream life – and I must continue to daily walk in reality of the plan He is revealing for me, not living in the world of my dreams.

He is the God of my reality!

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Five Minute Friday: Tender

A song popped into my head as I pondered where the word tender would take me this morning. The problem is that I can’t remember the words!

“…, tenderly, Jesus is calling. Calling for you and for me… Calling, dear sinner, come home.”

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And immediately, Romans 5.8 pops into mind: “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Does this make ANY sense? Christ GAVE HIS LIFE for the ones who wanted to TAKE HIS LIFE.

Is there a picture that shows tender any better than that? He loved us SO much, even when we despised Him, that He gave His life in order that we might one day have a relationship with Him.

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Have you experienced the grace and tenderness of Jesus? Have you accepted Him as your personal Savior – entering into a relationship with Him?

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Five Minute Friday: Vivid

Vivid.

I want to live a vivid life – one that shines the love of God in bright and vivid colors.

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I’m afraid that too often I live the opposite… I hide in the shadows, afraid to live out loud.

Online – that’s no problem. I can shut it off when it gets too be too much.

Offline – there’s the issue. I don’t want to overstep my boundaries – I want to live in my comfort zone.

My life is pretty basic – a few blues and browns color my comfortable world. I want to live out red and yellow – I want to be a beacon of light in the darkness. And yet, I’m afraid to grab the can of paint and dip in the brush. I’m afraid to paint the canvas of my life with colors I’m unfamiliar with.

I don’t know what reds and yellows and oranges might bring – sure, they look like the sun, but aren’t they also the colors of fire?

Lord, embolden me to live a vivid life for you. Dip Your brush in the paint of my life, and use me to paint a canvas of Your love for all to see. May I be willing to step outside of my comfortable life and live vividly and boldly for You – offline AND online.

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Five Minute Friday: Awake

Awake.

What a perfect word for me right now – it’s one that I’ve been struggling with almost daily!

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Whether it’s struggling to become awake each morning {waking up long enough to get out of bed} or stay awake each night {some nights I can’t fall asleep and others I can’t stay awake}, being awake has definitely been a major challenge in the last several months of my life.

Beginning this past summer, I started experimenting with my diet, looking for ways to eliminate some of the symptoms that were causing me to be so tired all the time. I eliminated most dairy and even tried a gluten-free diet for a time. While on my gluten-free and dairy-free diet, I began to feel better – to feel “normal” once again. As I began to ease back into a “normal” diet, introducing individual foods one at a time, I didn’t notice an extreme difference. But as time progressed, it became quite obvious that dairy was a major factor in my struggle to be awake.

I’m at a point now where I try to limit the amount of dairy I consume. I’ve completely eliminated anything made with fresh {not cooked} cow’s milk, as drinking/eating such gives me an instant sinus headache. And I’ve learned to listen to my body when I’ve had too much dairy…

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