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The Tale of Two Dances

October 13, 2020 By Tara Johnson Leave a Comment

“Daddy, wanna dance?” The mirror ball sprinkled light across the darkened room, washing the space in prisms of blue, red, green and purple. The father sighed and stuffed pressed the ‘end call’ button on his cellphone before shoving it back down in his pocket. He held up a finger. “One dance, Priscilla.” As the pumping beat of “Dance Like Your Daddy” rumbled the gym floor, Priscilla looked up into her father’s face as she hopped from foot to foot. But he was barely moving, absently Read More

Filed Under: Beyond What We Can Imagine Tagged With: God is not like my earthly father, God the Father, God the good father, identity in Christ, intimacy with God, spending time with God, What is God like

White Space

March 27, 2018 By Tara Johnson 3 Comments

“You should use up all the space on the paper.” I remember the admonition from my fourth grade art teacher so clearly as she stood in front of the chalk board, holding the large, white piece of paper in her hand, a sharpie in the other. “You kids are bad about leaving too much white space on the page. I want you to draw the black lines all the way to the edge. I don’t want to see any white space any more. None. Every Read More

Filed Under: Walking with God Tagged With: chaos, come to me, God's presence, learning to rest, peace, presence, presence over productivity, rest, spending time with God, white space, with God

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Tara JohnsonTara Johnson is a writer, singer, speaker and passionate lover of stories. Tara uses fiction, nonfiction, song and laughter to share her testimony of how God led her into freedom after spending years living shackled to the expectations of others. She lives in central Arkansas with her husband and children.

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