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Tea Time Tuesday

Some years back, I was up against a wall and couldn’t seem to get over it. Trouble or stress with my teens, a little one with nocturnal asthma leaving me with sleepless nights. Braces needed at $5000 and a car for our teens. Stresses financially, emotionally, spiritually, and relationally.

One of my friends asked me to come to her house. When I arrived, a coffee table was set, a beautiful card hand printed with one of my favorite verses. Candles flickered. A cake had been made, steaming cups of tea and flowered napkins, My friend had spent time to lavish me with generous love and abundant words of encouragement.

“You are making a difference.”

“God sees your faithfulness.”

“Your love abounds to all who know you.”

And she invested so lovingly and generously that afternoon that I left her home with hope that I could keep going and that somehow my labor was not in vain.

Today’s word is generosity: Kindness and giving in abundance, lavish, plentiful.

But the model of abundance was Jesus—giving Himself lavishly, serving humbly, sacrificing for us endlessly, infinitely. And so when we pour out our lives in abundance to love sacrificially, serving with a plentifully joyful heart, casting grace and light over all we do, then we are a picture of Christ Himself. Generosity of life heals, comforts, inspires. Today’s Tea Time Tuesday podcast has so much more,

And a special section with my very dear friend, Sarah Mackenzie. You will love today’s podcast—I know because we had so much fun.

Her new book, Because Barbara, is beautiful. Enjoy. Find Sarah Mackenzie on Instagram at @readaloudrevival or her website, Read Aloud Revival.