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The Power of Worship Through Pain (Featuring Original Music by Shelleen)

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“Well, all we can do now is pray.” We’ve all heard this phrase. Perhaps it’s escaped from your own lips; most likely when you’ve exhausted your own resources and strength in whatever battle you are fighting. If you are willing, read on…I’d like to shed some perspective, then add a twist onto that statement if I could. Ponder with me for a moment… Is prayer some sort of desperate last resort that we pull from the bottom of our emergency kit when nothing else in our power can be done? Certainly not. That being said, when I hear the words, …

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I Hope You Know … (Featuring Original Music by Shelleen)

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On a lunch date with my husband last week, I was startled by bits of a conversation I overheard between two middle-aged women sitting nearby. “I hate this time of year”,  one blurted. “I have good reasons for it too…” If she went on to detail those reasons, I didn’t catch them, but I do remember being shocked at the bitterness in her tone as I heard her saying through gritted teeth, “I just have to get through it.” My reaction to that, in part is, I get it. Holidays are suppose to be times of laughter and cheer; time …

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Have You Ever Loved a Wanderer? (Featuring Original Music by Shelleen)

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Have you ever loved a wanderer? I have. To say that the toll it takes on your heart is painful is a grotesque understatement. But I beg another question…Have you ever been the wanderer? Admittedly, so have I on that one as well. The lyrics from that old, familiar hymn-Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing come to mind: “Prone to wander Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love…” But did you ever contemplate the second part of that line? – “Prone to leave the God I love.” It implies that the wanderer loves God – yet still …

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When Dreams Take A Detour -Featuring Original Music by Shelleen

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I would undoubtedly be classified as an eternal optimist. Born with constellations in my eyes, I tend to only focus on the exciting possibility of any given potential situation, ignoring the pink flags that I’m sure won’t deepen into crimson. No doubt that is why God gave me my husband. Opposites attract. Don’t get me wrong; he is no Eeyore, but he is a realist, whom I affectionately call the tether to this hot air balloon. One of the wonderful attributes to being an eternal optimist is that we are possibility thinkers. I would definitely say that I am an …

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