One Saturday, eight years ago, I sat in our screened in porch of our three- bedroom ranch, questioning my faith, for the first time. “Is this whole Christian thing working for me?” I was thirty-one years old. I had been a Christian since I was a teenager, and I believed the Bible, but was it […]
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“I think we should do a calendar together. I’ll paint a watercolor for each month, and you could write a few lines of inspiration to go along with the painting.” I’m seated alone, about a year after my sister uttered these thoughts on one of our phone dates, working on that very calendar. A dream
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Welcome to my Summer Blog Swap. Over the next four weeks, I am inviting four of my writing friends to this space to share their hearts and perspective. It’s a fun way to introduce some of my favorite writers to all of you. This week I’d like you to meet Carol Graft. Carol loves to encourage and equip
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Welcome to my Summer Blog Swap. Over the next four weeks, I am inviting four of my writing friends to this space to share their hearts and perspective. It’s a fun way to introduce some of my favorite writers to all of you. This week I’d like you to meet Natalie Guy . Natalie has been married
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The pool in our backyard had just been completed, and all my children except one jumped in without a second thought, without fear. But my youngest was four years old, and until now, he hadn’t been around much water. As I helped him put on his bathing suit, I told him how much fun he
Welcome to my Summer Blog Swap. Over the next four weeks, I am inviting four of my writing friends to this space to share their hearts and perspective. It’s a fun way to introduce some of my favorite writers to all of you. This week I would like you to meet Dorina Lazo Gilmore. We met
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Welcome to my Summer Blog Swap. Over the next four weeks, I am inviting four of my writing friends to this space to share their hearts and perspective. It’s a fun way to introduce some of my favorite writers to all of you. This week I would like you to meet my friend Tara Dickson.
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Life really could be full of the best things if we could learn to let go and trust our Maker. Are we not the vine and He’s the gardener? When all 7 of us prepare the ground for a garden, my heart races with anticipation for the coming harvest. I wrote more about it Here.
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“Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing” John 15:5. As I stand at the base of the garden, listening to the quite of the evening, meditating on the words of Jesus in
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As we move into Mother’s Day I’ve heard Jesus softly whispering to the discouraged, “It’s ok to feel. Come to me, and I will give you rest. What can I do for you? You can trust me with your hurts and disappointments.” In this season of my life, as a mother of two preteens, two
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