Six Notes Blog

Welcome to our Six Notes Blog. This is a place you’ll find blog posts to dive deeper into scripture or bible versees to reflect on. We also put together guided prayers, spotify playlists, screensavers, and images to inspire and encourage in your walk with Jesus.

There are many ways to connect with the Lord, get creative! God doesn’t care HOW you do it; He just desires you.

Carly Dus 3/29/23 Carly Dus 3/29/23

A Prayer For When Tragedy Strikes

I was reading in my Psalms for Praying book today and read the prayer below. It felt very fitting in lieu of recent events and wanted to share. In all honesty, when dark tragedies like these strike, you lose words. You don’t know how to prayer and that’s all you want to do. It’s okay to find those guided prayers. Prayers of lament and frustration. Open up your Bible and turn to Psalms and Lamentations; a perfect place to go to.. Then just be still in the silence and sit in the frustration, sadness and even hope and longing for our eternal coming.

Carly Dus 3/27/23 Carly Dus 3/27/23

Putting Sin To Death

My morning read the other day was from James Bryan Smith in his book Hidden In Christ. It was about putting sin to death. To mortify it. He gave the example mortifying sin with his experience with the swimsuit addition from a very popular sports magazine. Guessing you all know that one. He talked about his guilty conscience with it as a young kid before he knew Christ. Then as he gave his life to Christ, the struggle became greater. He struggled for years whether to look or just throw it away. Finally he put the temptation to look away and walked straight to the trash bin and put that sin to death. He know longer allowed it to be a temptation.

Carly Dus 3/23/23 Carly Dus 3/23/23

Meaning of Sheol in the Bible

I was reading Psalm 6 and came across the place Sheol. I realized I wasn’t exactly sure what that word/place meant so I went hunting for an explanation. Below is a brief and simple explanation. For further detail and to dive much deeper head to Desiring God’s post.

Carly Dus 3/20/23 Carly Dus 3/20/23

Prayer For The Uninspired

I sit here dried up, uninspired

pen in hand, but not to paper

My mind anywhere but here

my mornings dull and dry

My heart is thirsting for you

but my head distracted and my soul so weary

Carly Dus 3/17/23 Carly Dus 3/17/23

Christian Road Trip Music

My kiddos are entering Spring Break this week. We’ll have lots of travel time as a family so we decided to use this as an opportunity to create a Christian Road Trip playlist. Check it out. And happy travels.

spotify playlists

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Close-up of a woman's hands clasped in prayer, wearing multiple beaded bracelets with a twisted scarf around her neck, outdoors during sunset.

guided prayers

Pray this prayer before you begin. Yearn to study Him, getting to know Him verses what’s in it for us.
When life is a little dry and mundance, when we need a little inner motivation, when we just need something to pull us out of this rutt… prayer this prayer and rest in His goodness.
pray one of our favorite bible verses

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resources

Tessa Afshar, Connilyn Cossette, and Francine Rivers.
Some of the deepest moments of my faith journey has been picking up a good read and letting the charcters inspire me. Christian Fiction or better yet Biblical fiction has a way of opening up our mind into what life MAY have been like back then.
These are two main resources that I love to go to when trying to dive deeper into a passage or theme in the bible.
- Blue Letter Bible - Commentator David Guzik
- The Bible Project
Find a list of our personal book recommendations for kids and adults in both fiction and non-fiction.