Elizabeth V. Beatty – Talking faith, sharing life

How 2,000 prayers changed me

posted on : March 5, 2020

My love, Tonight we’ll pray our 2,000th prayer together. Something about that number feels special, and I want to take a minute to thank you for it. Thank you for leading our relationship in daily prayer and for choosing to love Jesus more than you love me. I never planned to be with you, but God had better plans. We started praying together because we wanted to see what God would do with the friendship we both desired. You intrigued me, and I guess I intrigued you. Somehow we started a friendship, and I think only God…

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God is good in every circumstance

posted on : January 18, 2022

Some people choose a word for the year. They surround themselves with the word, writing it in notebooks, setting it as their phone or laptop’s wallpaper, and meditating on it throughout the year. I don’t choose a word for the year, but for the past two years or so, a word or two chose me. It’s no coincidence that the message “Be still and know that I am God” surrounded me just before the COVID lockdown of 2020. God nudged me in that direction before I knew the virus existed. From songs…

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2020: Weeks 11-16 — Blooming where we’re planted

posted on : April 23, 2020

Your 2020 goals may have flown out the window when COVID-19 came in, but I hope you’ve been able to establish a new set of routines and rhythms. I hope your life is full, even if it looks different than you planned. At about the same time we received shelter in place orders, I saw two little orchid buds. I’ve never had one to rebloom, even though I have three orchids. One I’ve had for about two years, and the other two I’ve had for less than a year. It can…

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2020: Easter in a different kind of world

posted on : April 10, 2020

It’s Good Friday, and I pray you’ve had a blessed one. If you are a follower of Christ, you probably spent part of the day remembering what happened to our Savior all those years ago. You may have been angry when Judas betrayed Jesus or when the crowd chose Barabbas to be set free instead of Him. Maybe you cringed when you read about the thorns, whips, and nails. Your heart may have ached to read about the suffering on the cross, and tears may have fallen when you remembered that the wrath of God poured…

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2020: Week 10 — Remembering

posted on : March 11, 2020

Do you take the time to remember milestones in your life? How do you mark them so that you don’t forget them? Some people, like me, are journalers. For others, photos mark their milestones. Maybe it’s a collection of something else. Whatever your method, I think it’s important to reflect on where we’ve been as we look forward to the future. This week, I finished up reading Numbers and started reading Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy opens with Moses recapping the past 40 or so years to the Israelites who are preparing to enter the…