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Continue reading →: Busy minds, restful hearts.“Whenever my busy thoughts were out of control, the soothing comfort of your presence calmed me down and overwhelmed me with delight.” Ps 94:19 My thoughts have been lack of gravity lately. Whether battling those lies that threaten to isolate me leading up to my speaking at our church women’s…
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Continue reading →: Extravagant things in ordinary places.There is a house down the road from us that is blue. Think Robin’s egg blue, but times ten in the vibrance department. When we first moved to the neighborhood, my husband and I had conversations about that blue house, like what do you think the neighbors think, are they…
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Continue reading →: Let it all burn“I’ll throw it all- the best I have to bring- into the fire as the fragrance of my sacrifice ascends unto you.” Psalm 66:15 TPT Today my best sacrifice is to not want to lash out on my four year old who is shoveling handfuls of goldfish crackers into his…
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Continue reading →: Horse Hair And Good GiftsHe doesn’t want me looking around to see what everyone else is doing. He is not asking me to follow suit with what other’s are doing, He is asking me to follow suit with what He is doing. I’ve been really torn lately over what following Him looks like in…
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Continue reading →: Glory-Garments and JesusHe was here. She knew he was here because she heard the shouting of his name, people crying out and trying to get closer, and all at once she’s in a crowd of people, stepping on the back of her heels, shoulders tossing into hers as each tried to worm…
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Continue reading →: When what you thought was waiting is actually a birthing.If I had to choose a Psalm to best describe my life right now it would be Psalm 37. These days feel categorized into three categories: The Holy Spirit filled transformation days. In the month leading up to the accident, it felt like we were on fire. The Lord was…
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Continue reading →: Baptize me in breakthrough.I’ve been wrestling lately. A couple nights ago, about the time when I usually begin to poke Donny and ask him to pray over my eye, my questioning was more of a plea. When you pray over my eye, will you also pray over my joy? Will you also ask…
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Continue reading →: Adopting Olivia.Olivia’s in the Soviet Union, He told me, as we sat across from each other in a boat. Who the heck is Olivia, I thought, completely baffled, all the while knowing that He wasn’t telling me to gossip or to simply be factual. He was telling me in a manner…
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Continue reading →: Grief Lingering and Jesus in it.Sometimes the emotions hit me like a tsunami, caught in the sea of overwhelm. Overwhelm that our Father saw all of our futures worthy of saving. Overwhelm at the aftermath trying to pray ourselves out of potential surgeries and pray ourselves into new vehicles. I see all of His goodness…
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Continue reading →: How to live when you should’ve died.We’re living on our second life over here in the Orengia house. I know it sounds crazy, but to walk through what we have and to pretend we are the same just is not even plausible. You can’t taste His goodness to the depths we have and see His deliverance…
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I’m Sam.
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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