Tag: Work

Balance: Free Yourself

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Hebrews 12:1 says, “Let us strip off anything that slows us down or holds us back, and especially those sins that wrap themselves so tightly around our feet and trip us up; and let us run with patience the particular race that God has set before us, keeping our eyes on Jesus, our leader.” TLB […]

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 […]

The Strength in God’s Truth

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Lately I’ve felt like I’m facing mountains. In my job. In motherhood. In ministry. In college we had this saying, “The way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.” But what about the days that you take one step forward, two steps back? Stuff keeps building and becomes overwhelming. Recently in church […]

Softening Hardened Hearts {31 Days}

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I started cleaning houses when I was 16, mostly for elderly people. Today my story is about the grumpiest person I’ve ever known, and the most endearing. Ruth lived in a little house that had stepped straight out of 1970. It had barely aged a day, probably because it never saw the sunlight, tucked behind […]

Strength in God’s Comfort {31 Days}

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When I was 11, my mom had twin boys. She had prayed for them, and God answered, “Yes.” Those twins are number 6 and 7 in our family of 9 kids where I’m the oldest. They just moved away from home this year for school. Of all my siblings, these two are the first to […]

Working Long Summer Days Away {31 Days}

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It’s strange how things you despised as a child you miss as an adult. Growing up on a farm was no picnic. We moved from Florida to Kansas when I was 8 years old. We’d only been on the farm a year when my dad started investing in livestock. My brother Dave and I went […]