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Continue reading →: When the grass ain’t green.Really, I don’t know what to say. I keep wanting to begin, I have so much to tell you, but the thing is, I don’t know where to start. Because the article got me. The one reposted on Facebook about the woman who wished she hadn’t waited on sex until…
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Continue reading →: God breath & a bit of unconditionalness.Once I dated someone because everyone else would be fulfilled by my relationship. Because he would be happy, my family would be happy, his mama would be happy, & everyone would say I told you so, jumping in circles together, because they always saw some magic between the two of…
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Continue reading →: If I told her anything.I stare across the room at the twin-sized bed parallel mine. Sheets frumpled into a loose ball in the center, wall side stuffed with pillows & that big stuffed bear with the red bow around his neck, taking me back to their one year when he was over there &…
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Continue reading →: Indian givers & crawling love.Heavens, he is patient with me, as I throw myself on the kitchen floor, crying in an upheavaled, unladylike manner. Crying as a child, because I so wanted this & every time the Lord provides he slams the car in reverse. Lord, you are an Indian giver. Honestly, half the…
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Continue reading →: When we do what we’re made to.I’ve never really shared my testimony. I’d love to say it’s because I’ve simply never had the opportunity arise where raising my own life story could potentially lead others down similar roads, but really it’s more so out of the messiness & insignificance I’ve accredited to Jesus’ finding me. For…
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Continue reading →: Magic tricks & love that settles.A couple things on my mind, love. Do you mind? Two things, because they have been flooding my mind. Because I think sometimes people say what we want to hear in more love than what we need to hear. Because I began writing as a promise to myself that I…
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Continue reading →: For days when the fire burns.
“I will bring that group through the fire & make them pure. I will refine them like silver & purify them like gold.” ZECHARIAH 13:9 We will be brought through the fire. By God himself. That sounds sick & twisted. He says no, though. That this is the trick by…
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Continue reading →: Birthday cake & tipping scales.
I saw her picture on Facebook a few weeks ago, holding her bundle of one year old on his birthday. A year later, & she she isn’t a stick. Unlike every other woman I’ve known to have a child in a good while, she didn’t seem to squirm underneath the…
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Continue reading →: Throwback Thursday: for the storyteller.
It was that time staying an hour late turned into the whole evening. No cares were paid to the winter storm advisories flashing from the news to my phone, with the assistance of my all too concerned mother. Please leave, she pleaded. It’s only going to get worse. I couldn’t…
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Continue reading →: What they’re not telling you.
We’ve glamourized the one night stand. How fearless of you to give yourself away so carelessly. How bold. How wild. & so the virgins in the room, those of whom are fewer than few, feel ashamed. The gift of purity all at once does not seem like much of a…
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Coming to you from good ole Northeast Ohio. Donny + I have been married for nine years, we have four kiddos- Allie, Luca, Leo, + Emmy Sue Promise. I’m a homeschool mom, photographer, author, women’s ministry director, + new podcast creator, just over here trying to get use to the sound of my voice.
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