Category: Heart Encouragement

I’m Back! (Or, On Doing What God Created Me to do)

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Three years ago, I took a step of faith by creating this website. I bought the domain, figured out some web design, and started writing. Why? Because I’m a writer. I can’t not write. For years I barely even wrote in my journal because of college homework and then pregnancy brain. But it didn’t work. […]

Plant Seeds to Grow Roots

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I woke up this morning to gray skies and lingering raindrops on my pots of chrysanthemums on the porch. The giant maple tree across the street is getting that golden glow again and soon its leaves will pile up in the street. Fall has arrived and it makes me happy down to my bones. Coziness […]

Just two things for today

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Sometimes it’s just one phrase God gives you that you take with both hands and repeat. One truth or two that gets you through the next meeting, the next conflict, the next effort to get out of bed. Life is this crazy kaleidoscope of the good, the hard, the beautiful, the brokenness. One day you’re […]

When it Comes Back to You

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Recently I was blessed to listen to a webinar with Stacey Thacker and Brooke McGlothlin, who wrote Hope for the Weary Mom and its companion devotional. They were sharing about strategies for busy moms to spend time with God in the Bible. I was really blessed by their practical suggestions and genuine reminders of how […]

God is Near

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As I wrote last month, I was laid up all of April, to the point where I wasn’t even cleaning my own house or doing my own dishes. My energy extended to changing diapers, feeding my children and lying on the floor while they played next to me. Things as simple as going outside and […]

How to Have a Holiday Worth Remembering

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There are picture perfect moments you’d like to treasure in your heart forever. And there are times you’d prefer absolutely no photographic evidence so you forget them as quickly as possible. Most of those polar opposite moments come around holidays…one of those being tomorrow. Valentine’s Day. Sometimes you love it. Sometimes you hate it. Most […]

Full of Surprises

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Okay, be honest with me here. Have you ever thought, “What am I going to read in the Bible today? There’s not much I don’t already know. It’s going to say the same old thing”? Raising my hand. It’s probably more common than you realize. We think it when we forget that the Bible is […]

The Strength in God’s Truth

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Lately I’ve felt like I’m facing mountains. In my job. In motherhood. In ministry. In college we had this saying, “The way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.” But what about the days that you take one step forward, two steps back? Stuff keeps building and becomes overwhelming. Recently in church […]

Be Brave, Be Very Brave

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My 2-year-old has discovered Bad Guys and Monsters. Those invisible beings are great fun to shoot at and chase during the day but lurk in dark corners of the bedroom and keep little people awake at bedtime. He cried for almost an hour last night yelling “Wait, Daddy!” and “Cuddle, Mommy!” That resulted in Bad […]

Why Resolutions?

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A new year, new resolutions. I think I’ve read about a dozen blog entries about goals and resolutions this past week. And though I’m making new year’s goals with the best of them, there’s this thought in my soul that I can’t get past. Why are we all obsessed with resolutions? What does it mean […]