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Continue reading →: Just like Mary.Pregnant me doesn’t always react gracefully to my emotions. Its a fact. Non pregnant me doesn’t either, but pregnant me SURE AS HECK doesn’t, if that emphasis helps you catch my drift. & lately, to be honest, I have been struggling, ready to throw in the towel on every one…
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Continue reading →: How to Master Motherhood & be a Good ChristianWho has the answer to this seemingly ironic problem? Not I. I probably should not have been so deceitful posting quite a bold title of hope because— moms everywhere— I am in desperate need of the answer. But I do have a little revelation, a glittering hint of promise…
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Continue reading →: Joy as a weapon.“…the joy of the Lord is my strength.” Nehemiah 8:10 Its a tactic. The upper hand. When we pray, maybe instead of praying for strength we pray for a fruit of the Spirit He tells us is the weapon we need wield. Maybe its joy, His deep, fulfilling,…
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Continue reading →: But there is a river.This is all funny to me right now, because as I’ve been sitting here for the past 10 minutes figuring out a way to begin this post, I look to my prayer journal at what began this whole thing & the answers right there. So, I’m going to simply start…
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Continue reading →: This is a flourishing.About a month ago while I was praying, I felt like God was showing me the image of flowers growing out of the tips of my fingers as I held my hands out, palms up, while praying. I remember thinking how beautiful it was, drawing it out in my prayer…
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Continue reading →: How to feel less lonely.I messaged my husband this morning something that may or may not have said: Lets just move far, far away—right now. There may have also been a fitting emoji or two. I don’t know. Maybe. But my smart husband, he is good at what he does (being…
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Continue reading →: Peace & Fresh Starts.We were all there— whether your plans included going to bed early, dancing/mostly just screaming the lyrics to Toto’s “Africa”, or rocking your babe to Mariah Carey’s meltdown— you were a part of 2016’s end. And the thing is, no matter the taste 2016 left us with, all we all…
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Continue reading →: On your wedding day.The most fun, full of life girl got married last weekend & it was such a beautiful day, from beginning to end. So when I was simply writing out my stereotypical Instagram post with all sorts of pictures of our faces through out the years to post on her wedding day, and…
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Continue reading →: Not so random breakthrough surprise parties.When God is doing incredible things, we praise. When God appears to be stealthily tip-toeing around in camouflage by the silence that seems to be boring the crap out of our prayer life, we stay. We praise. Some times my prayers are more of me pleading “give me focus…
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Continue reading →: Pigs & bad singing voices.
You know those little animals that you can rent at the mall for ten minutes at a time, riding them along to the loud music that’s squeezed out of their very fluffy being? The obnoxious ones that you can’t help but stare at as they dodge past you, stealing all…
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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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