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    Enfolded in God's Arms: 40 Reflections to Embrace Your Inner Healing: Silent Moments with God
    Enfolded in God's Arms: 40 Reflections to Embrace Your Inner Healing: Silent Moments with God
    Enfolded in God's Arms: 40 Reflections to Embrace Your Inner Healing: Silent Moments with God
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    Enfolded in God's Arms: 40 Reflections to Embrace Your Inner Healing: Silent Moments with God

    By Lisa Are Wulf

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    Sometimes life just hurts. Whether it's the sting of a current loss or long-standing heartache, let God's love enfold you and restore the wounded places of your soul.

    Lisa Are Wulf, an award-winning author, invites you to embrace your inner healing within the sacred space of your heart. She offers encouragement, compassion, and strength for the journey.

    "Enfolded in God's Arms" features 40 short reflections, comforting bible verses and prayers, plus a quiet time with God.

    ·    Soothe, nurture, and mend your troubled spirit.
    ·    Be renewed, refreshed, and spiritually transformed.
    ·    Rest in the peace of God's arms.

    "Lisa uses a tender approach. I've never heard her voice, but I felt like I could hear her encouraging me."--Daphne Tarango

    Experience new insights and perspectives as hurts are eased and life moves forward, all within God's gentle embrace.

    Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the Voice Arts Awards

     

    What Readers Are Saying

     

    From the very first words of Enfolded in God's Arms, I sighed. My shoulders relaxed. I was still for silent moments with God. I felt that Lisa Wulf knows brokenness and understands me. She appreciates the mystery of living enfolded in God's arms. And she has helped me do that as never before. Judy Downing

     

    An empowering book, biblically grounded in God's affirming love. Rev. Dr. Winifred Mitchell

     

    Lisa Are Wulf's new book will take you on a journey deep into your soul. Beautifully written, with nuggets of wisdom mined from her own experience, Lisa's gentle voice touches us and encourages us to trust God as we go deeper into those places we all have of hurt and pain. A clearer vision of His truth in our lives is the reward. Jan Malvern

     

    Lisa is a strong spiritual guide. Her meditations are heartfelt and inspiring to anyone on the journey to a closer relationship with God. Jerusha Goebel

     

    Lisa Are Wulf's devotions are a comforting and thought provoking walk through healing. As I read through the devotions I came to realize how much healing I have experienced and how much healing I have yet to experience. No matter in what stage of healing you are, there is spiritual guidance awaiting you "Enfolded in God's Arms." Beth Storer

     

    Lisa Are Wulf's devotions are timely, and easy to relate to in our busy world. She is an encouragement and a source of thoughtful meditations. Suzanne Barlow

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpiritual Formation House
    Release dateAug 20, 2016
    ISBN9781938042096
    Enfolded in God's Arms: 40 Reflections to Embrace Your Inner Healing: Silent Moments with God

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      Enfolded in God's Arms - Lisa Are Wulf

      Next Generation Indie Book Awards– Finalist

      Silent Moments with God Series

      Enfolded in God’s Arms

      40 Reflections to Embrace Your Inner Healing

      Lisa Are Wulf

      Spiritual Formation House

      Colorado Springs, CO

      spiritualformationhouse.com

      Contents

      The Journey Begins

      The Phone Call

      Dismount

      Reality Shows

      Mr. Fix-It

      The Caged Bird Returns

      Monkey Business

      When You Can’t Go Home

      Pulled Away

      At the End of the Day

      Overboard

      Dumpster Diving

      Last Year’s Crops

      Open a Window

      Turning Corners

      In the Zone

      Behind the Mask

      Missing the Boat

      Breaking Free

      Who’s Watching

      Moving In

      The Porch Swing

      Peeling Onions

      Keeping the Clay

      Give Me Your Hand

      Tossing Pinecones

      Let’s Dance

      At the Core

      Cut Off the Label

      Picture This

      Unshackled

      Barnacles

      Plowing Around the Stumps

      The Donkey

      Sucking Lemons

      Making Peace with Reality

      Living the Wounds

      Worth the Struggle

      Stay the Course

      Now Departing at Gate One

      A Life of Light

      The Journey Continues

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      About the Author

      Other Books by Lisa Are Wulf

      Acknowledgements

      Copyright

      The Journey Begins

      Opening Thoughts

      There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.

      Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV)

      The rhythm of creation flows through seasons. We know them well—spring, summer, fall, and winter. They revisit us year after year. Many of us have our favorites and also those we don’t particularly like.

      We find the rhythm of seasons in our own lives too. Various seasons repeat. Some intensely happy or difficult seasons appear only once. Today, we may walk in a period of deep satisfaction and joy. Later, our days may be filled with struggle and sorrow. There is a season for every activity under heaven.

      The season of healing is especially tender. It is a time of flux and searching, pain and growth. It may feel as if we are making progress, only to find ourselves stepping back into a prior struggle. But we’re not floundering. Rather, this may be how God chooses to work in our lives during this season.

      Enfolded in God’s Arms: 40 Reflections to Embrace Your Inner Healing is part of the Silent Moments with God series addressing key areas in the lives of those seeking God. This book contains forty devotionals, gathered into four sections:

      A Time to Heal

      A Time to Change

      A Time with Jesus

      A Time to Grow

      Each reflection begins with a scripture verse, followed by a short devotional and a few questions to ponder. An excerpt from a Psalm and a brief prayer are also included. As the reflection ends, take a moment to reflect on the truth of your own life experience.

      Don’t miss the special section in every chapter called, Be Still for a Silent Moment with God. It’s important to pause during each reflection and sit quietly. Open your mind to hear what God may say to you.

      Embarking on a healing journey may take courage—lots of courage. But where will it come from? Can you summon it up from the depths of your being? You may find this type of courage simply arises from holding tightly to God’s hand. As each of us travels our sometimes smooth and sometimes rocky path, Jesus is our constant companion—a friend who never wavers, who always guides and encourages us.

      As you begin your journey, hold these words of Scripture in your heart:

      Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior...

      Isaiah 43:1b–3a (NIV)

      I wish you a journey filled with healing, hope, and happiness.

      Section one

      A Time to Heal

      The Phone Call

      Reflection 1

      All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

      John 6:37 (NIV)

      I’m still waiting. Why doesn’t the phone ring? I keep it by my side and continually check my messages. Will the call ever come?

      As far back as I can remember, I knew I wasn’t good enough. My life was spent trying to jump over a bar that seemed to be set ever higher. All I wanted was to make the grade and be acceptable. But somehow that never happened.

      Perhaps you struggle like this too. Are you waiting for a phone call from someone close to you, hoping they will say you measure up now, that you can stop trying so hard? Unfortunately, a reality check says that’s probably not going to happen.

      Actually, it shouldn’t happen. Trying to be good enough is a symptom of flawed theology. If our goal is to live by faith, then wanting to be good enough doesn’t really fit. It implies that God’s love for us is conditional, and we must constantly pass a test in order to be acceptable.

      There’s another issue too. When we put so much emphasis on being okay, then everything is about us instead

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