By Lisa S. Tarno It’s been over a year that I have prayed in earnest, “Help me Lord to be firmly rooted, grounded and established in your love for me and to comprehend it, as it is hard to comprehend, but help me comprehend this love so I can be filled to the fullness of
Seven Reminders To Begin The Year By Lisa S. Tarno I listened to this podcast today on my walk outside and wanted to share some insights along with her bullet points. I summarized her first point because it’s not a “Christian” message but the take away was. There are a lot of spiritual parallels that
By Lisa S. Tarno I have prayed for some time now that God would fill me full of His grace and enable me to accept what is. It’s part of my prayer strategy to encase myself in a Galinda (from Wicked) like bubble of grace with all my interactions with people to just bounce off of
By Lisa S. Tarno When life presses in hard to the point of extracting tears with something so innocuous… it’s a warning. We file our painful moments away in our bodies and minds so that we can cope but our bodies don’t forget. Along comes a trigger that reveals there are areas of deeper unhealed
By Lisa S. Tarno I have purposefully stepped back from the holiday fanfare due to my present circumstances of losing a parent prior to this season, but also as a reset for my way of thinking. After experiencing such a profound loss, one is indelibly changed. Some things come into clearer focus and all the
By Lisa S. Tarno “For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die…A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance” Ecc. 3: 1-22,4 NLT It’s been a month since my mother
By Lisa S. Tarno Do you believe in coincidence? That was the question on the table at our bookclub last night. As a believer in Christ, I think there is less coincidence out there than there is purpose and intention. That is my short answer. I wanted to give this some more thought than how
By Lisa S. Tarno Sometimes it is better to not say much at all…especially when you are processing the hard stuff in life! A counselor once told me that. It’s like the larvae stage of a caterpillar…messy and not beautiful…but then the butterfly. In this larvae like stage of grieving and asking God questions, one
By Lisa S. Tarno “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.” James 1:5 In my last blog, The Season of Whoa!, I spoke of bundled hardships that weighed heavily on my heart and mind. Life is like
By Lisa S. Tarno Susie Larson writes a question, “Have you ever gone through a season where, in your head, you knew you were loved by God, but in your heart, you felt absolutely cursed by Him?” (From “Your Powerful Prayers” book & study) I wrote in the margin, “Yep!” I really don’t like answering the
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