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Why you need your ordinary life
Our neighborhood is a quiet one with tree-lined streets, sidewalks, and simple homes. Most children walk to the neighborhood school, and we often see the same people riding their bikes, walking their dogs, and pushing their babies down the street. The street sweeper comes by every other Friday, the sirens from the fire truck can be heard as it barrels…
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Life Is Adventure
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Weekend Links (for the ones who feel the weight of the world)
The past month has been a challenging one in a number of ways. I’m not ready to share my story quite yet, but what I can tell you is that God continues to grow me through difficult circumstances. A few years ago, after several traumatic events took place in our lives, I began to think that certainly God…
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What your soul needs more than anything else
Last fall I was asked to sit on a panel of several women for a women’s event at church. The topic of discussion was “How to fill yourself up in order to pour out.” One of the questions we were given ahead of time was to choose an area of life–physical, mental, social, spiritual, or emotional–and talk about…
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Weekend Links
The skies are a bit more blue these days, the weather has warmed up, the azaleas are blooming and our front porch swing is back up and in use. April, we are glad you’re here. My children keep telling me they have a whole list of April’s fools jokes planned for us today and quite honestly, I can’t…
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For Your Weekend
May you find comfort this weekend in knowing that trusting God in your today will bring spiritual strength that prepares for you what is ahead. Let’s not rush our lives by worry and waste our energy on moving forward too fast to tomorrow. Enjoy the moments before you and rest in the goodness of a God who loves you…
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When your soul becomes exposed (& why this is good)
Our little home sits on a fairly busy corner, surrounded by fences on all sides. The front yard is enclosed with a short white picket fence, the kind that has that small-town American feel. The side yard has several wooden gates giving it a quaint and somewhat secret English garden feel. And then our backyard has a fence which not only provides…
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The Mysterious Gift of Shattered Dreams
What would be the greatest gift you could ever receive? This question was posed to us during a Sunday School lesson a few weeks ago. Most of us at the table knew the ‘right’ answer, but for the sake of discussion and getting to the heart of the matter, we began to share our desires. Someone mentioned…
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Jeans is Always Trendy
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Weekend Links
Last Saturday night a thunderstorm rolled in while I was putting the finishing touches on dinner. It’s not often that we experience this in February, but lately the temperature has felt more like late spring/early summer, and with the warmer temps we’ve been able to watch some non-winter-like weather patterns. I snatched Cooper up and took my phone outside to capture…
