What words define you? Are you patient, faithful, or generous? What about defensive, short-tempered, or negative? I’m pretty sure every one of us has both positive and negative words that define us. If you’re anything like me I’m sure you’d like your list to weigh heavier on the positive than the negative, right? All we need As Christians, we are…
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Sheltering in Grace
She meant no harm by her question. “What have you been doing during quarantine?” a friend asked. I fumbled over my words and wasn’t able to come up with anything amazing in response. That evening over and over her words cycled in my mind. In the remuneration of her question, the straightforward, curious tone of her words was replaced with…
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Restoring the White
Take a breath. White space. Let it mull around in your head for another second. It’s a fairly easy concept to understand; yet for many of us, we will miss it entirely. For a mom and a wife, what does white space even look like? Is it the nighttime hour when you are weightless in your bed, body caved into…
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Building a Future
Oxford dictionary defines “obedience” as: compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another’s authority. God’s Voice It started as a quick trip to the mall to do a return. As I turned into the upper parking lot I heard His voice say something I was not prepared for, “I want you to give your notice.” In that…
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Look for the Fruit
For the first time in my life, I set some goals at the beginning of the new year. I spent several hours at the end of December 2019 reflecting and mapping out my hopes and priorities for the new year. I dared to hope, I dared to believe myself capable of following-through. Perhaps it was the hype of a new…
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