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“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.” Warren Wiersbe
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I’m continuing my series of 40 Things I’ve Learned By Age 40. 20. God will put you in places of influence you would never expect and in ways you could never anticipate. Have you ever played that game where you share facts about yourself, but you mix them in with non-facts and then people have …
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I’m continuing my series of 40 Things I’ve Learned By Age 40. 16. Not nearly as many issues are as black and white as some people want them to be and tell you that they have to be. This includes the people with all the detailed Scripture explanations, loud voices, guilt trips, pressing demands, threats, …
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I’m continuing my series of 40 Things I’ve Learned By Age 40. 8. Time does heal most wounds, but not all and not completely. 9. It is easy to measure success in life. Simply ask yourself, “Am I more Christ-like now than I was a year ago?” 10. Your dress size does not determine your …
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1. A woman is complete in Christ – nothing more and nothing less. Marriage and/or motherhood may change her worldly status and role, but they do nothing to make her more complete in Christ. Salvation, wholeness, and meaning are found in Christ alone. 2. To be a homemaker, I need to stay home. I do …
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I knew I would write about Caroline’s birth, but I needed time to process everything that happened as part of our planned c-section birth. There is much more to the story than what David and I have written about here so far. But we decided to give ourselves a little time before I attempted to …
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I’ve been quietly pondering this post for a number of weeks, turning it over in my mind before I ever sat down to actually write. I know God wants me to write it and I am glad to do so. I believe Christians often go through experiences that aren’t just about them and I firmly …
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“I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.” Philippians 4:11
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Like most first-time moms-to-be, I’ve already been offered lots of advice and counsel. I actually welcome it because I appreciate hearing about other people’s experiences. I also welcome it because over the past several years I’ve learned not to listen to everyone who gives me advice. That might sound contradictory, but it isn’t. I truly …
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“He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.” Psalm 25:9
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“God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.” Jeremy Taylor
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Yesterday my husband and I picked out Mother’s Day cards for our moms. We are both blessed to have our parents still married to each other and have good relationships with our moms. Celebrating our moms and being thankful for them is the easy part of Mother’s Day. The hard part of Mother’s Day is …
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“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten – the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm – my great army that I sent among you.” Joel 2:25
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“Never let mistakes or wrong directions, of which every man falls into many, discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding where we were wrong.” Thomas Carlyle
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“So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.” Hebrews 4:9-10
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One morning I found one of the most amazing displays of God’s artistry that I have ever had the personal joy of discovering.
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Once upon a time a young woman started a new thing called a blog. She was fascinated by the opportunity to just write and not spend time pitching article ideas to print magazines. She was thrilled she could reach more people with the ideas she had taught and spoken about in various places. As she …
