Last time, we gathered around this message of making room for God in every season. The practice of inviting him into our "heart-home" as we talked about can be both beautiful and painful all at the same time. And once we've invited God in...into our hearts, our stories, into each and every moment...then we are invited to abide with Him there. And that's what I want to talk about today. What does it mean to "abide?" Jesus emphasized the importance of abiding in Him in John chapter 15. He compares himself to a vine, and us (believers) to the branches of the vine. It reads: I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you ...