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Everyday Life

Anchored in the Storm

I’ve discovered one thing about life. If I’m in a calm season where all is going well, I need to enjoy it because…well, tomorrow is a new day.

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Everyday Life

A Whisper From God

I see you. I see you single momma, Trying your best to raise your children, Hoping they are okay amid their hurts and struggles, Questioning if you’re enough.

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Everyday Life

What’s Your Security?

My grandparents were a hoot. My grandfather had the best sense of humor—even if it was inappropriate at times. He also had the best “grandpa-isms” that my family

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Everyday Life

Loneliness

Sundays are uplifting days spent worshiping my Savior, reconnecting with friends, and relaxing in the house of God—that is until the sermon ends, everyone says their last goodbye,

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Emotions

If Your Holiday Was Not Wonderful

Culture paints a lovely, fairytale-like picture of the holiday season, doesn’t it?  Children dressed in matching outfits, sipping hot chocolate by a fire, opening a mountain of gifts

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Everyday Life

Praying God’s Word

I’ve spent much of my adult life practicing the spiritual discipline of prayer. But I didn’t always do it well. When my children were younger, I prayed the

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Everyday Life

Taste and See

Oftentimes a verse will jump off the page while I’m reading the Bible. I love when that happens because it means the Holy Spirit’s talking and God has

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Everyday Life

Eyes Up

With faces splattered with mud, shoes weighed down with layers of brown soil, and hearts pumping wildly, the cross country runners at the Chili Pepper Festival pressed on

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Everyday Life

Kick the Can

A kaleidoscope of memories probably churns in most of our minds of carefree moments with family and friends during our childhood. My memories include winters spent building snow

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Building Character

Change the Constant

When I learned I would have a baby at 40, I panicked. It wasn’t a pretty panic, unless you call a certifiably ugly cry lasting for weeks beautiful.

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