Author: natalieedwards

  • Leaf Treasure

    Leaf Treasure

    Leaf treasure Little leaf treasure Your beauty enchants Revealing that life rests Above where we stand   Here I look up And I see You again Your arms they still catch me Like when we began   My King Unveil Your sky   Who holds you in the night who holds you in the wind…

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  • When It Rains

    When It Rains

      God is always up to something big when it rains. I feel it so often. This past Sunday God came in with strength and captivating love. I keep thinking about it. I see it in the storm. I see it in His protective, warrior love over us. I see it in how it went…

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  • The Blessing is Worth the Burden  

    The Blessing is Worth the Burden  

      In the springtime pollen fills my grocery cart with Kleenex. I sneeze every season as I go outside. Still I love the spring. I can’t stay out of the flowers and sunshine. It’s got me thinking… In spring, in life, in everything… the blessings we experience come with a burden attached to it. For…

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  • God’s Love Embrace

    God’s Love Embrace

    Come away with me My lovesays your GodCome away with Me and rest For I’m not One to leave you emptyMy heart it pours the best So come and seethe mysteryAwaiting you and MeMy love for youIt’s heaven sentAbounding oceans deep My God Your loveIt tastes like wineAnd fire is in your eyes I find…

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  • The Story of Esther: Empowered to Save

    The Story of Esther: Empowered to Save

    The sound of water flowing fills the palace. Trickling fountains. Incense burning. The smell of lavender lingers in the air. Shades of fine silk in purple, red and blue are laid out for the choosing. It’s a spa of the most luxurious sort and hundreds of women are preparing for their encounter with the king.…

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  • Roses

    Roses

    God is with you loved one He is with you ever close His heart for you is beaming with a love of grandiose   Roses He imposes and his heart always discloses every thought i’m safe here in the doses of the never-ending love my King has bought   wind blowing here and there i…

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  • summer nights

    summer nights

    summer days… summer nights… a touch of earth sunkissed in light all could fade away still your glow would stay oh sun, you dazzle like a gem like joy hasn’t left you like war hasn’t provoked you like humanity hasn’t disheartened you you glisten you glow ever present ever so summer days… summer nights… still…

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  • That Ride at The Fair…

    That Ride at The Fair…

    In Holbrook, Arizona, on the cusp of Route 66 and wide-open desert, the county fair rolled into town every September. And every year, my family would take me and my brothers for our annual thrill fest of funnel cakes and Ferris Wheel rides. With blue wristbands and dusty tennis shoes, we’d glide around the fairgrounds…

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  • How To Thrive in 2018

      Thrive. /thrīv/ v.   To flourish. To propser. “To grow vigorously” Merriam Webster’s Dictionary says. Every new year commences on January 1st like a brand-new beginning for all to behold. Dreams loom ahead. Goals lie in waiting. Resolutions and aspirations liven our spirits once again, as we ponder the potential of what’s yet to…

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  • When God Takes Away What You Love

    “The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord.” -Job 1:21 Job knew the sting the heart feels when God takes away what you love. When God gives. Then takes away. Many of us face this pain in life. The pain that remains when God takes away something you…

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