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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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Our desires often control the direction of our lives and animates our actions. I recently read a book that challenged me to stop avoiding my desires. To see them for what they were, both the good and the bad. And two questions consumed my mind. Are these desires what I really want? Or are they…
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Focus is difficult when the world wants you to be something else constantly. As an introvert, I sometimes only feel true peace when I’m by myself and no one is around to tell me who I need to be. When we go to God, we come as ourselves. He knows us in and out. There…
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The topic for this month is focus. As we enter into the Christmas season we want to quiet our hearts and minds, so that we can pay attention to what really matters. We are often encouraged to focus in on relationships and the goodwill of mankind during this season. Which are marvelous within themselves. But…
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I wrote this prayer a couple years ago for friends that were moving away. They became family to me in our community group from church. I want to share this poem as a prayer for you the reader and all of those that follow Jesus. I hope that it blesses you and that you are…
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When you have nothing to say, sometimes you just freeze. The world becomes clear somehow. And it’s in those moments that you look back and think to yourself how did I get to where I am and where am I going? We’ve been talking about family this month and while that is an important concept…
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This poem talks about the broader family that God welcomes us into when we believe and trust in his son Jesus. We all come from various types of families and backgrounds. And often, we end up with wounds from our families. Whether they were good to us or caused us much sorrow. But God redeems…
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Families to someone like me are somewhat of a paradigm. I grew up in a Hispanic family. Since before I could talk, the importance of family was drilled into me. “Your family will always be there for you, even when all your friends aren’t”. While a part of me agreed with that philosophy, there was…
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The topic for this month is family. The people each of us are bound to by blood. But we also know that family is more than just physical relation. Its safety and a place of rest. And those of us who are Christ followers are bound together by blood stronger than our mothers, and fathers,…
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As a special post for the fifth week of October, both Alice and I will be posting a haiku on friendship. We hope that you are reminded of the beauty of friendship as you read them:) The warmth of the day Hands that uplift in the night A bond that brings life.
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To finish out friendship month, we are doing haiku’s. My haiku is inspired by the passage of time and how that changes friendship. With all our relationships we have our ups and downs, despite all that we move forward. That is the most important thing. With time comes forgiveness and understanding and renewed love. This…
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