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Waiting

The Two Inescapable Tomb Times

Edvard Munch. Melancholy. Art Museum of Bergen. I am alone, waiting in the tomb. There is nothing else I can do. I try to believe the darkness and stillness here will allow something new to be resurrected on the other […]

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The Profound Silence Of The Tomb

Mark Rothko. 1969 Untitled. Holy Saturday—the quietest of all days. The tomb that held Your broken body was dark and silent. Heaven held its breath. A shimmering stilling making ready for glorious resurrection. Precious Jesus, I have moved with You […]

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Mary, Mother Of Us All, Stood Strong

Botticelli. Madonna del Magnificat. Uffizi Galleries. Mary, the young Jewish girl God chose to birth Jesus into the world, lived out her life with unspeakable anguish and sorrow. Only pure and simple faith enabled her to say yes to God […]

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December 24

Wait in your pain, and keep watch for the Light. ~Betty

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Betty Skinner

A Letter from Betty

  Watch for this. A virgin shall conceive and bear a Son. And shall call His Name Immanuel. Isaiah 7:14 Dear Ones, Immanuel, God With Us, is the heart of God in Christ, filled to overflowing with the desire to […]

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October 19

If you will choose to see your waiting as a time of pregnant expectation rather than of fearsome discouragement, it will enlarge you and give you hope. ~Betty

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On Retreat: June

Our prayer is that “On Retreat” will help you break from habituated patterns of mind and frantic activity, make more space for God, and step into a new way of seeing, believing, and abiding. Each retreat will focus on a healthy […]

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Making Space for God

Betty, our inspiration for The Hidden Life Awakened, talks about the power of letting our negative thoughts go in order to make space for Love.

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