Three Strands Ministries

Three Strands Ministries Spiritual director seeking to encourage others in their spiritual journey. 🌿

03/19/2026

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Excerpts from Psalm 42 and a few honest questions:
✨Do you have a thirst for God?
✨How do you experience God in your day?
✨How does it make you feel to know that God’s song is with you at night?
✨What do you imagine the lyrics to be?

Bless you, friends.

And I pray that you might know a deep thirst for the living God.

03/18/2026

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How many times do I catch myself amidst an “aimless scurry” ?
Probably too many times to count, if I’m honest!

May this excerpt from Ted Loder’s prayer encourage us today to find a moment to pause, to rest and allow God to reshape our hearts and minds to be more like His.

Hold my heart to the beat of your grace, O Lord. Amen.

03/16/2026

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Compassion for others.
Compassion for self.
I believe they are kindnesses that are connected.

Often we can extend kindness and care towards others while berating ourselves.
✨What if you could extend compassion to yourself today in the same way that Jesus does?

This morning I am trying to show compassion to a part of myself that I find hard to love.

03/13/2026

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Take a moment to pause and to reflect on this familiar passage. (It took me more than a few minutes to really ponder the questions.)

Perhaps one stays with you more than another. So just hang with that one… God has placed a finger on that to help you pay attention to something. Put it on a sticky note in your car, or on your fridge.

Or perhaps turn this into a prayer:

God, help me to love you with my heart…
with my mind…
with my soul…
with my strength.

God, help me to love my neighbours in practical ways. And to love myself as well. đź©·

03/12/2026

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I happened to pick up my book of poetry by Mary Oliver this morning and, reflecting on my experience from yesterday, I checked her index for a poem about geese. 🪿 🪿

This one line captured how I felt about the moment yesterday, the moment when I took time to receive the gift that God was holding out to me.

✨Have you experienced wanting to stop time due to being in a moment that truly touched you?

And can you connect that moment to God’s desire to give you good gifts?
Those moments of awe, wonder, joy… all gifts from the One who loves you deeply.

If you were able to recall a moment, spend a moment in gratitude for God’s presence and goodness in your life.

If it feels difficult to recall something, ask God to help you to *notice* the gifts that are sent your way.

Blessings, friends!

giftsfromgod

03/11/2026

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✨what gift has God given to you this week?
✨what moment brought joy, wonder or gratitude to your heart?

Sometimes we are moving so quickly from one thing to the next, that we don’t have time to honour those “burning bush” moments.
The moments where God is speaking to us.
The moments where something brings us joy, a sense of wonder, or hope.
These moments are from God… a little tap on the shoulder. A small invitation to pay attention… that there are gifts for you.

This morning I felt fortunate to have a few moments to stop on the side of the road to witness some of God’s creation.

It felt beautiful - that there was something sacred within the minutes spent beside a road in a thick fog, with a large flock of migrating tundra swans. 🦢

03/10/2026

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These days can sometimes feel dark and heavy, especially when I tune into the news.
Every morning the birds remind me that the light will come.
They sing before the light…
Heralding the hope of a new day, a new dawn, fresh glimpses of God’s love.

✨when have you known the hope of God even if you were still in a dark season?

Spend a quiet moment asking God to help you remember.

.Jesus gets us.All of us.Uncertainty and the unknown can make us fearful. I don’t think I need to “choose” faith over fe...
03/05/2026

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Jesus gets us.
All of us.

Uncertainty and the unknown can make us fearful. I don’t think I need to “choose” faith over fear. I think I need to choose Jesus within the anxiety.

I will breathe a prayer with my breath to remind me of God’s presence with me:

God, I am anxious … and yet I know that you surround me with your love and care.
I trust you.

03/04/2026

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✨What has felt life-giving for you this week? What has brought you peace ✌🏻, joy, or a sense of God’s presence?

Pause to ponder with God….
Scroll your photos to see what captured your attention this week.
Take a moment to soak in the good things…

Take a moment to say thanks… 🙏

03/03/2026

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✨What is breaking my heart these days?

Do you know that it likely breaks God’s heart 💔 as well?

Our tears can even be prayer; God understands even if no words come.

“You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.”
Ps.56:8

You can be honest with God about what is causing heartbreak đź’”.
And God holds you in your sorrow.

You are so loved….

.Today I had been posting light hearted reels to my story.As the day wore on, I realized it’s because I wanted to distra...
03/01/2026

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Today I had been posting light hearted reels to my story.
As the day wore on, I realized it’s because I wanted to distract my heart from the sadness of the news.

Iranian 🇮🇷 school children killed in a missile strike. Over 100.

I want to light 100 candles to honour them.
I don’t have 100 candles in my house.
So I sit before these 2 candles, asking God to be with me, in my sadness and to be with the parents of the children killed in the midst of the crushing grief they must feel.

Sometimes the world is too much for my heart.
🖤💔

“Be merciful, O Lord, to those in distress;
to those whose eyes grow weak with sorrow,
and whose souls and bodies are full with grief…”

Ps.31

Join me in lifting up those grieving this night.

02/27/2026

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✨What are you waiting on God for?

An answer to a prayer?
For an ache to lessen?
For a new season to arrive?
(Hello… spring!? Anytime now!?!)

How does that feel as you wait and wonder?
As you ponder and pray… ?

Sometimes the answer does not come.
Sometimes the healing does not occur.
Sometimes what we have asked seems to be met with the silence of God.

God is with us in the waiting.
With us in the wondering…
But it still hurts. đź’”

Remember God wants your honesty.

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