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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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For this week I am reposting a poem that I wrote a few years ago titled the Peace Tree. A poem that reminded me to cease striving and to just receive God’s peace. As it was meant for me. And it is meant for us all who believe in Jesus. So if fear has overtaken…
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We don’t always know where our own hearts lie. We lie to ourselves to feel better about the things we do and feel. These past few years, I’ve had to reconcile those parts of me that were falsehoods. Lies I told myself. That brought “peace” in the moment, but destruction and confusion later. Sometimes we’re…
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The topic for this month is Peace. In John 14:27 Jesus tells his disciples “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” One of the Pastors from my church says this…
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This is Part 2 of my short story on the topic of revenge. As you read I want to give you a reference for the last line of Part 2. It comes from Jesus’s words in Matthew 6:23. I hope this story encourages you to think deeper about revenge and what it costs us. He…
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This poem is a small interruption to this month’s topic of revenge. My grandfather recently passed away, and I wanted to write something as I process his death and where I believe he is now with the Lord. I pray that you will find some comfort in what I have written. And may God strengthen…
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When thinking about how revenge can creep up on you sometimes, I thought of resentment. How over time, we allow resentment to build if we don’t surrender them to God and forgive. Part 4 of the story follows Ruth as she begins the journey to facing her estranged father. She realizes that in her own…
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This is part 1 of a short story I am writing on the topic of revenge. It is natural for us as humans to seek revenge for wrongs done to us, but that is not how God calls us to handle wrongdoing. He tells us the vengeance is his. (Deut. 32:35) And honestly that is…
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I think we all know that feeling. The feeling of wanting someone to “pay” or to “get their just desserts”. There is no shortage of TV shows, books, and movies on the subject. It’s the reason we have a justice system at all. To prevent individuals from seeking revenge on others in unjust ways. The…
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What I have written this week is a kind of fictionalized retelling of the response of the governmental authorities to Jesus’s resurrection in the bible. It is set in a modern setting focusing on the struggle that the guards (in this story graveyard keepers) guarding Jesus’s tomb might have had. Wrestling with and choosing financial…
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