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title: "Life Designed: Living in Awe of God’s Extraordinary Design"
date: 2025-10-07T07:00:00-05:00
author: Jennifer Vermeer
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# Life Designed: Living in Awe of God’s Extraordinary Design

God’s intentional design shapes every detail of our lives, infusing the ordinary with meaning and purpose. How can we recognize His hand in the rhythms of our daily lives?

 

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How might our perspective shift when we recognize God’s intentional design in the ordinary?

 

  [### God in the Ordinary

We often search for God in the extraordinary, but His care is also constant in the seemingly mundane. How often do we give thanks for these everyday gifts?

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  [### Wired for Words: God’s Design for Language and Learning

How might a deeper understanding of the process of reading reveal God’s intention for us to be learners and seekers?

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  [### Gardens and Galaxies Through Child-like Eyes

Reclaiming wonder is essential to seeing both ourselves and our Creator more clearly. What might change if we lived not as mere consumers of the world, but as attentive participants in its unfolding story?

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  [### Aging by Design

Tempted to see aging as decline, how might our perspective shift if we instead saw it as a tool to refine our faith and stir our longing for the life to come?

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  [### Through Him, All Things Hold Together

Just as God intricately sustains the physical structures of creation, so too does He uphold His people with wisdom and care.

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  [### A Secret Chord: Finding Meaning in Music, Science, and Faith

In this essay, Dr. John MacInnis considers how the beauty of music points beyond itself to the order of creation and the God who made it. Through music's harmony, we catch echoes of the Triune God who calls the world good. What might it mean to listen as an act of attending to God's presence?

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