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Homesickness and Longing

I saw a picture the other day of a place remembered long ago, when just a lad. Funny about nostalgia, memories wiped cleaned, filled with raw, beautiful emotions, with undertows of pain. It is like remembering a place…
Dry Bones: Life in the Spiritual Desert

By Dean Lusk I woke up this morning and from the time I was conscious I had the first few lines of Gungor's song "Dry Bones" in my head: My soul cries out; My soul cries out for You. These bones cry out; These dry…
Desiring What We Don't Have -- Until We Have It

We desire something; attain it, and then it more often than not looses its luster. For what is owned cannot be desired. So what is desire pointing to? Is it the desiring of what can’t be owned? A man or woman c…
The Aches of the World: Longing for More

By Amy at Make Me a Mary Ache is almost too broad a word to talk about because I ache all the time. It rains out side, my lower back aches. I skip my morning caffeine, I get a headache. I think about getting four kids…
Why I Hate Wedding Songs

By Amy at Make Me a Mary He was playing a guitar riff that seemed familiar to me but I couldn't place it. Hearing the music made me want to cry and I didn't know why, so I asked him what it was. When he told me, I under…
The Face I Long to See the Most

By Amy at Make Me a Mary Whose face do you want to see first when you get to Heaven? Each and every heart-wrenching goodbye in this life creates in me a deeper yearning for my true home in Glory. As I ache for those I…
How "Survivor" Mirrors Heaven

Minus the backstabbing, tribal councils and tears, of course. With this week's premiere of Survivor: Redemption Island, the franchise that never says die only further cements its legacy as one of America's greatest telev…
The Sealed and Lonely Tomb: Matthew 27:62-66

The next day, on the Sabbath, the leading priests and Pharisees went to see Pilate. They told him, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver once said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise from…
When You Feel God's Presence, and When You Don't

Here's the best part: I could feel God everywhere! I had these small little stars accompanying me wherever I went. I felt like the most special person in the whole world. It felt like I was wrapped in this pink and whi…
I Needed Proof that God Hears My Prayers...

Guest post submitted by a Revelife readerDid you ever have a moment with God that blew you away?I'm putting myself out on a limb here, and being vulnerable...but after what happened.. it's definitely worth it. God loves…