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Welcome to the Streams of Comfort Blog! We are a Christian-based writing community that hopes to provide comfort through various creative streams. Each month we will have a topic that inspires our posts. Posts will include various types of writing, from poetry to short stories, and more. New posts will be available every Friday morning!…
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Trust is a hard one for me. If there’s ever been one thing in my faith and life journey that feels like an impenetrable mountain, it’s trust. When I was young, my father walked out of my life. For a long time, if I saw a girl with their father, it would break something in…
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Our inspiration for the month of August is trust. We wrestle, struggle, and find peace when we place our trust in God. To trust is a difficult thing that can leave us feeling exposed and vulnerable. Especially in a world where disappointment is lurking around every corner. But even though the world lets us down,…
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I think it is easy to get lost in the need to achieve and accomplish in our current world. And in that place grace is unfathomable. We don’t have a concept of receiving any good without doing something to deserve it. God’s grace asks for nothing and gives us everything we could possibly need in…
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In the book of John, Jesus tells a Pharisee named Nicodemus that in order to see the kingdom of God you must be born again. And in response to Nicodemus’s confusion, Jesus tells him that he must be born of the Spirit. Stating in John 3:6, ” The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear…
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When God said, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness,” in 2 Corinthians verse 9, I sometimes don’t want to believe it. The world teaches us that we should work towards being strong. That life will make you strong. Even when I look back at some of the…
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In this poem, I talk about the wrestling within ourselves that many of us experience. It’s difficult sometimes to choose things that give life when the things that inhibit us feel safer. We don’t always choose correctly, and it’s only God’s grace that carries us safely through life when our hearts resist good things. As…
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This month we’re tackling grace. A hard word for many in light of recent events. I am Venezuelan and while I cannot speak for anyone else’s experience, I can relate to the overwhelming feelings of despair and helplessness that many felt. Watching buildings fall and people being crushed, there are many that ask, “Where is…
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Our inspiration for July is the grace of God. In 2 Corinthians 12:9, God tells Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” It is astonishing that the recipe for perfect grace is the combination of God’s power and human weakness. Weakness is not simply an unfortunate facet…
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When we are lost or have been deceived, everything can seem hopeless. What can we possibly do, when we couldn’t even prevent it from happening? But in that place, I believe that we are given a front row seat to God’s grace. We recognize his work, as we see him do what we are unable…
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It’s almost officially summer. It brings to mind an excerpt from one of my favorite poems, “Remember summer? Bubbles filled the fountain, and we splashed. We drowned in Eden, while Jehovah’s grass-green lyre was rustling all about us in the leaves that gurgled by us…” (The Public Garden, Robert Lowell). Summer is a time of…
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