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A Season in the Valley: Addressing those Times of Struggle in your Faith

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  The Hidden Place ~  Take me to the place where the little cabin sits within a grassy meadow with mountains all around facing the sea. The crystal white sand beginning where the meadow ends stretches forth into the cool water that beckons me from afar. I feel at peace here; unplugged and with no one around but just me and God. I feel free here from my heavy burdens. I needed this. This is our meeting place, hidden from the rest of the world. This is a place that I envisioned when I was meditating one night. Sometimes we just need that time and space where we can just separate ourselves from the rest of the world to hear the voice of God more clearly.   Like I mentioned in my previous blog, Sometimes I fall , we go through different seasons in our lives, and sometimes they are low seasons. Seasons where we find ourselves in the valley feeling; dry, weary, or altogether just distant from God. In this series of blogs that I will be sharing, I will be taking you guys through my valley mo

Sometimes I fall short

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Picture made by Shalem-Salmina  I fall short I fall short of your glory This fat is choking me This flesh is killing me Weighing me down I cannot carry My spirit shaking inside Trying to break free My eyes cannot see My ears cannot hear I cannot feel Whenever you are near Blind, I lean on my Faith Deaf, I look to your signs To guide me, to show me That your always there Even though I fall short, Short of your glory ©      ~ Star Latty      We all fall short of God's glory but that is why we have grace and his truth to guide us. We are humans and sometimes we make mistakes (whether intentionally or unintentionally) and a lot of the times we do end up falling short and disappointing God but the good thing to know is that he does not give up on us. He said he would never forsake us, so, he is near even when we are sitting in our tears asking him, where are you? In those times of questioning, I usually find myself  trying to move past the doubts by reminding myself of God's words a