Tag: relationships
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at the foot of the broom bush / even if it’s crawling
Fun fact: I love how detailed the Lord is to include specific trees through out the Bible. I tend to like my books full of the juicy deets. Make those sentences the length of three paragraphs, please. I want to read and be entering into what I’m reading. I want the perfect words as the…
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Come into the sun.
Return to me, God says. & I’ll return to you. Well, the Lord of Armies, to be exact. Just because I was raised in the church & have never known a world apart from it doesn’t mean that my faith has been a good representative of that. I’ve always known Jesus, but that hasn’t necessarily…
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The Belonging: Tuesdays
When our Tuesday group first started, I didn’t know what to expect. Somedays, when my faith was wavering & I was looking at the facts laid out in front of me, I was shaken & doubtful. Because the facts said you only know about two girls & you think this is going to bring girls…
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The Belonging: When We Step Out.
Where do I even begin? Do I go back to the days when I used to respond to the “What do you want to be when you grow up” questions with “a writer & a speaker at big conferences”? Do I go back to the night when I was surrounded by the church body &…
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tuesdays with the girls
On Tuesdays, we gather in my living room. Some girls sit on each others laps, leaning into each other as we talk. Some gather on the floor with a bowl of popcorn. We’ve grown comfortable with each other these days, conversations following bunny trails more often than I might like to imagine, laughing over each…
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A ready help.
All too often I find myself looking at the Bible as only a history lesson. Proof that God once had it. Here’s what he did in the good old days. Here’s the work he performed in his prime, before retirement. The present isn’t a waiting game for God. He isn’t sitting twiddling his…
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I fight to feel purposeful.
I honestly didn’t even realize until I was reading the genealogy in Matthew, highlighting all the women who were important mamas, but when I came to verse 16, the tables turned. “& Jacob fathered Joseph the husband of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus who is called the Christ.” —Matthew 1 The shift in my…
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The best marriage advice I’ve ever been given.
Today is three years with my handsome, loving, & selfless man. Three years. No, its not 10, 20, or 50. But its three years. 365 days three times over (my hubs isn’t here to do my math right now). 1 child growing 3 years older. 2 children being added to our family. 2 children being…
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The golden rule & things that aren’t petty.
I think we all have those pivoting moments in our lives that end in, ‘and then, everything changed.’ People think marriage ends the whole golden rule struggle. If you are unfamiliar with what my kindergarten principal referred to as the golden rule, the answers kindness. Kindness is the golden rule, and who ever dreamed that…
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Immeasurably More
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you,…
TOTHEUNTAMEDHEART. 