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Michelle Stiffler's avatar

Yes, girl! So good! "Trust that this season is good for this season’s purposes." That's where I'm camped at the moment. Glad to know I'm not alone.

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Paola Barrera's avatar

I knew I had the best company in that camp 😉💃🏻!

Thanks friend for your encouragement ♥️😘

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Janero Stokes's avatar

Blessings Paola! Often God works in ways we would never have thought. My greatest faith growth has been in those unexpected hard times. I can read that you are at peace with this pause. May God continue His gracious work in you (and me) as we continue in life. I’ve been missing you!

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Paola Barrera's avatar

And I have missed connecting with faithful readers like you, dear Janero, thanks for reading and the sharing from your experience. Thankful for our gracious God, and for the ways He connects us! ♥️

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Keren Dibbens-Wyatt's avatar

I really hope that you are feeling much better now, Paola! I can so relate to the pause of sickness, though I think it has become my normal so much that I do sometimes feel tethered to it, and my sickbed. But (there's always a but, isn't there, with God, who is so good?) it has also opened out a new world of faith to me, and creativity, which in a speeding, busy, normal life, would have passed me by. So I trust, and I fall deeper and I wait, continually asking for healing, but trusting grace has me where I'm meant to be. Thank you for expressing that side of hope and trust and faith so eloquently. I really hope that God has some wonderful things in store for your listening heart!

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Paola Barrera's avatar

Thank you, dear Keren, for reading and for sharing part of your own process with waiting in sickness, and for bearing witness to God’s goodness in it all. So encouraging ♥️!

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Darcy Wiley's avatar

So interesting how God gave you a nudging about making space and slowing down before you physically had to do so. Praying health and peace and a closeness with God in this time of recovery. You are loved!

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Paola Barrera's avatar

Thank you Darcy ♥️🙏!

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Lanie Anderson's avatar

So good. Loved the line about pauses bringing clarity. So true.

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Thalia Toha's avatar

Paola- Untethering is a great way of putting this. I love it. Hope you're well this week? Cheers, -Thalia

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