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Dara's Diary Blogcast XXXV | Martha And Mary: A Different PerspectiveBible Verses Included and/or Referenced:Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:38-42 ESV“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but one of power, love, and sound judgment.” 2 Timothy‬ ‭1‬:‭7‬ ‭CSBFor you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. Psalm 139:13 ESVSo we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1 John 4:16 ESV Get full access to Dara's Diary at grachaeldara.substack.com/subscribe

Dara's Diary BlogCast | Season II Episode I | I Used To Be A FlamingoBible Verses Included:“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”” Mark‬ ‭2‬:‭22‬ ‭ESV“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭43‬:‭19‬ ‭ESV Get full access to Dara's Diary at grachaeldara.substack.com/subscribe

Dara's Diary Blogcast XXXIV | Listen To The WhispersBible Verse Included:“So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up! Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.” Genesis‬ ‭19‬:‭14‬ ‭ESVGenesis 19:30-38.“As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.” But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.” Genesis‬ ‭19‬:‭15‬-‭16‬ ‭ESV“And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.” But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.” Genesis‬ ‭19‬:‭17‬ & 26‬ ‭ESV Get full access to Dara's Diary at grachaeldara.substack.com/subscribe

Dara's Diary Blogcast XXXIII | When The Healer Doesn't Heal YouBible Verses Included:“So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.”“Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” 2 Corinthians‬ ‭12‬:‭7‬-‭9‬ ‭ESV"Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever." Psalm 136:1 ESV"As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him." John 9:1-3 ESV"Why are you downcast, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation." Psalm 42:5 ESV“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭28‬ ‭ESV Get full access to Dara's Diary at grachaeldara.substack.com/subscribe

Dara's Diary Blogcast XXXII | Dear Mama, You Can Only Do What You CanBible verses included:“And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.” ‭‭~ Genesis‬ ‭2‬:‭2‬-‭3‬ ‭ESV“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” ~ ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭6‬:‭19‬-‭20‬ ‭ESV Get full access to Dara's Diary at grachaeldara.substack.com/subscribe

Dara's Diary | Blogcast XXXX | Back To Where I Started Bible Verse Included:“Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” Proverbs 19:21 NIV“so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭25‬:‭25‬ ‭ESVQuotes Included: So many ideas swirling in my mind that build and pick up speed until they become a tornado of business ideas, concepts and creations that until this point have either not materialised or not been finished. ~ Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Thinking Out Loud, Grachael Dara, Dara's Diary Get full access to Dara's Diary at grachaeldara.substack.com/subscribe

Dara's Diary Blogcast XXXI | The Abyss Of LackBible Verses Included:“You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife…” ‭‭Exodus‬ ‭20‬:‭17‬ ‭ESV“Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!” Luke 12:24“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,” Ephesians‬ ‭3‬:‭20‬ ‭ESVOther Links Included:Covet Definition | https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/covet?q=CovetCovetousness: The Sin Behind the Sin [The Deep Dish - Ep. 22] | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vEyfpDICuI Get full access to Dara's Diary at grachaeldara.substack.com/subscribe

Dara's Diary Blogcast XXX | The People God Sends To Help UsBible Verses Included:“For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.” Isaiah‬ ‭41‬:‭13‬ ‭ESV Get full access to Dara's Diary at grachaeldara.substack.com/subscribe

Dara's Diary Blogcast XXVIX | New Year, New Me...Again.Bible Verses Included:“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6‬:‭21‬ ‭ESV“And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?” Matthew‬ ‭6‬:‭27‬ ‭ESV“Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.” Psalm‬ ‭37‬:‭5‬ ‭ESV Get full access to Dara's Diary at grachaeldara.substack.com/subscribe

Dara's Diary Blogcast XXVIII | Where Are All Of The Church Kids?I Know God...Kinda | The Complacency Of Growing Up In Church | Part 1Hiding In Plain Sight | The Complacency Of Growing Up In Church | Part 2Bible Verses Included:“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭22‬:‭6‬ ‭ESV “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honour your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭6‬:‭1‬-‭4‬ ‭ESV“Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”‭‭1 John‬ ‭4‬:‭8‬ ‭ESV“The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.”‭‭Psalm‬ ‭34‬:‭18‬ ‭ESV“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”‭‭Romans‬ ‭3‬:‭23‬ ‭ESV Get full access to Dara's Diary at grachaeldara.substack.com/subscribe