Nicole Dotson

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Category: Transformed

  • Search and Know…Reflections From Psalm 139:1

    Search and Know…Reflections From Psalm 139:1

    O Lord, You have searched me and known me! Psalm 139:1 Do you remember the excitement of new love?! Do you remember how it felt in the discovery stage of one another…when you began to realize that this new person in your life might possibly be “the one” that you’ve been waiting for and praying…

  • Racing Thoughts, the Intrusive Whisper and Painful Obedience

    Racing Thoughts, the Intrusive Whisper and Painful Obedience

    The negative thoughts take laps around my head… Each one racing to take first place… Consuming my brain space. Anxiety growing, Agitation growing. Round and round they go and go and go… Then, an intrusive, quiet whisper asks- “What is it that you are meditating on?” Thoughts stop mid-lap. I realize that I’m doing it…

  • I Want To Be Just Like You.

    I Want To Be Just Like You.

    “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.” So…who am I imitating?

  • To The Ones Crowned In Splendor (or…to the ones whose heads are graciously wrapped in silver or white or gray splendor…) **and a note to the rest of us awaiting that crown**

    To The Ones Crowned In Splendor (or…to the ones whose heads are graciously wrapped in silver or white or gray splendor…) **and a note to the rest of us awaiting that crown**

    We need you. You are not forgotten. Please, don’t give up yet…there are some of us out here who are looking for you. For your stories. For your wisdom. For your advice. We want to know about that path that you’ve walked to earn that beautiful Crown of Splendor that gracefully wraps around your head.…

  • Cry Out

    Cry Out

    The battle is waging, The enemy’s strong… Mothers and Fathers cry out. His tactics relentless, Temptations so sweet… Mothers and Fathers cry out. We’re confounded, astounded, We’re desperate and weak… Mothers and Fathers cry out. He keeps inching closer, Creeping in on all sides… Mothers and Fathers cry out. We close all our doors, Yet…

  • How the Gospel Blooms in Life’s Cracks

    How the Gospel Blooms in Life’s Cracks

    It’s easy to talk about our faith when all’s well.  When it’s all going great and we can smile about blessings and grace and forgiveness and Jesus… …but when stuff hits the fan and life is a MESS…that’s when the Gospel can shout the loudest through us. When we don’t just talk about grace but we cling to it…

  • Equipped to Endure

    Good morning!! Ok, so let’s face it.  Today, we will face temptations.  Whether it’s the temptation to binge on unhealthy food, or the temptation to gossip, or the temptation to harbor bitterness and resentment in our hearts…the list goes on and on…but one thing is sure, temptations will come. What if we went into today…

  • Yes…TODAY is GOOD!!!

    “…we can do something extra-ordinary in a seemingly ordinary day. We can drop to our knees in the middle of whatever is going on and boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the {PRECIOUS} blood of Jesus.”

  • Making a Dent in Heart and Laundry

    Good Morning!! For those days when a shower is just a thought and you’ve cleaned all day and just want to sit…but keep finding more FULL dirty laundry buckets…I will remind my soul to… “Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my…

  • Taking Us and the Garden Back

    I always struggle with calling today Good Friday. When we get to this day, my heart hurts when I think of what Jesus endured on this day so long ago. It doesn’t feel good. My 8 year old even asked me that about a week ago, why it was called “Good” when it was the…