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of some kind. Much of it may seem mundane, ordinary, and uninspired. This leads us to devalue the work and, ultimately, ourselves. We begin to feel like interchangeable parts, becoming overly preoccupied by what we do and losing focus on why we do it. We fail to recognize the sacred spaces where we can do our most important work— work that God has prepared for us to do. Everyone has sacred work assigned to them. who had lost my mother, I was the right person to comfort that young boy. God had placed me in that room for that very moment. Sacred spaces often present themselves as eerily coincidental circumstances. Moments when you happen to be in the right place at the right time or meet the right person. Times when your abilities and experience position you for an opportunity you could not have orchestrated on your own.
Sacred spaces are the moments that invite you to do the God-ordained work only you can do. I was keenly aware that as a person
Instead of dipping our toes into these sacred spaces, if we plunge into the deep end and allow them to cover us, we will become
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