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Every Season Has a Reason
To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven. …
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CHANGE – Love It, Hate It, Live It Out
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11 Change is a curious phenomenon of life, isn’t it? Love it, hate it, appreciate it or not – change happens to all of us. The scope of emotions we experience…
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We All Need a Cheer Section
I’ve heard it said that hurting people hurt people. All we have to do is dive into the internet, and we can find countless examples from social media, videos, and news reports. Truth be told, however, all we really need to do is look in the mirror. I found a video on Facebook the other day of 8 to…
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The Pursuit of Perfection
One of the things that has surprised me the most about motherhood is all the things that have surprised me. This is partially due to the fact that I entered the world of parenting with the unrealistic expectation that I would be a perfect mother. Over the years I have discovered I am not the only one. Even with…
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His Ways Are Not My Ways
I turned 13 the same year as Mary Ellen on The Waltons. For whatever reason only a hormonal teenage girl can comprehend, she was convinced she was going to go “crazy” on her thirteenth birthday. Being a hormonal teenage girl myself, I took this to heart so on MY thirteenth birthday I sat on the edge of my bed…
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Our God Inhabits Praise
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We Are the Fragrance of Christ
There was a trellis of honeysuckle by the front door of my childhood home. Over the years its sweet fragrance came to represent the safety and unconditional love I knew waited for me when I crossed over the threshold. Conversely, to this day the odor of coconut and brown sugar remind me of a box book report gone bad…
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The Ministry of Silence
…A time to keep silent and a time to speak. Ecclesiastes 3:7 She never said a word yet the way she ministered to me spoke volumes into my pain and devastation. We had just gotten home from the hospital after the stillbirth of our second child when a friend dropped a gift bag at our door. She didn’t ask…
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When God Calls, Do You Answer?
“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen.” Jeremiah 29:11 Has God ever picked you up from where you are and placed you where He wants you to be?…
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Mommy Marathon
You’ve washed the dishes, folded the clothes, and changed the baby at least 29 times. You’ve cooked breakfast, made lunches, and found junior’s lost shoe. Grab your backbag. Grab your lunch. Car line one and car line two. Rush hour traffic, rush hour traffic. Gotta get to work, please move. Then there’s ball practice, piano lessons, and don’t forget…
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The Purpose of Our Passions
When I heard this, I sat down and wept. In fact, for days I mourned, fasted, and prayed to the God of heaven. Nehemiah 1:4 Have you ever been so moved by something that it permeated every area of your life? Every thought, every decision, every action was filtered through this passion? This is not the passion of a…
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The Perfect Note
For by one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy. Hebrews 10:14 It started out as an innocent flirtation between my husband and I, but ended up so much more. At some point in our marriage, my mom had made the comment that I never did anything wrong growing up, and from time to time…
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The Princess In The Mirror
When I was a little girl, Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella was broadcast on network television about once a year. On the nights it aired, I would be glued to the set from the second it began until the last credits rolled. That night I would dream I was Cinderella. The next day I would pretend I was Cinderella. Oh, how I…
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I Am The Lord’s Servant
This is a rewrite of a post I published almost eight years ago. As I was listening to Mary Did You Know by Mark Lowry the other day, I was again struck by the knowledge that Mary’s message in the recounting of Jesus’ birth is just as relevant today as it was for her so very long ago. Listen…
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Who Does He Say That You Are?
Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are…
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Masterpiece
It was just an ordinary stick. Most of us wouldn’t have paid much attention to it. The master carpenter, however, took it back to his shop where he whittled and sanded and varnished until he was so pleased with the results he placed it proudly in his shop window for everyone to see. Soon an elderly gentleman walked by.…
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The Role of Traditions and Memories in the Family
The more we weave Christ and the scriptures into the everyday lives, memories and history of our family, the firmer the foundation on which we train our kids to be strong men and women who are capable of living in our world but not of it.
