Tag: Faith

Christmas When You’re Sad

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“I just don’t want to be all holly jolly,” a friend told me. I nodded. I know the feeling well. It’s been three years since I felt genuine happiness at Christmas. My babies were getting bigger. They could finally take a turn holding a candle at the Christmas Eve service in my memories I see […]

Why Writing about the Laundry is Still Talking about Jesus

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I once took a Christian writing correspondence class. It helped me in some ways, but in other ways I hated it. Here’s why: they actually had the gall to talk about how to sell your work for money. I was 19. I believed that writing was a ministry for gosh darn’s sake and how secular […]

Growing from Survival to Flourishing

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What area of your life overwhelms you? For a long season, when I thought of caring for the physical needs of our home and family, waves of anxiety washed over me. So many tasks that were always undone. My to-do list was never crossed off and guilt attacked me. To begin to step out of […]

God’s Word Speaking

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My cell phone vibrates on the table beside me. It’s 6:00 AM…my three little people will be getting up anywhere in the next 30-45 minutes but instead of letting their hands tugging on my blanket be what jolts me out of sleep, I’m choosing to get up and start my day before them. As a […]

Balance: Looking Beyond Today

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*Note* Today I’m sharing some biblical facts about God and Satan. If you wonder where on earth I’ve found these concepts, click the hyperlinks and they will take you to the verses that spell out the truths I’m explaining. Watching my little boy climb up the rock wall at the playground, I ask myself again, […]

Balance: Just Because I Can

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“We must push beyond what is comfortable if we want to grow.” Susie Larson They tell me it isn’t normal to be able to rattle off 30 or 40 people’s names I’ve been actively reaching out to on any given week. Camp kids I write letters to. Elderly people whose houses I clean, who I […]

Balance: Not What I Think it Looks Like

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A favorite blogger of mine, Lisa Jo Baker, has been doing a 10-day challenge with herself to get back into regular blogging. I’ve decided I’m going to do half of that and blog for 5 days in the next week to stretch my mental muscles and prove to myself I’m capable of thinking about more […]

God is Near

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As I wrote last month, I was laid up all of April, to the point where I wasn’t even cleaning my own house or doing my own dishes. My energy extended to changing diapers, feeding my children and lying on the floor while they played next to me. Things as simple as going outside and […]

So…What’s Up with You?

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Sometimes life throws a curveball at you and there’s not much you can do about it. It’s spring now and in our home that means baseball. Opening day is a national holiday here. We even planned an awesomely fun cookout to celebrate this year. But we never had the cookout. A week before opening day, […]

Wisdom from Heaven – Deeper Life: James – Day 14

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Begin your time with prayer Scripture James 3:13-18 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth. Such wisdom does not […]