When your sister-in-law, who also has a bundle of children, calls to invite you on a girls weekend to the mountains of New York, you go without a second thought. The stars aligned and both our husbands agreed to watch the children. The last weekend in September I found myself boarding a plane alone for […]
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Do you ever tell yourself you’ll finally have peace when the house is clean and de-cluttered? Or when the kids finally get along? Or maybe things will settle down in the world? Or when that one relationship is restored? Maybe you’re waiting to be financially set, and debt is paid off. It seems we are
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It’s only halfway through the first month of the New Year, and failure has already begun to overtake you. You’re standing at the sink and your teenage son slams the door and screams, “It’s stupid!” It is stupid. It’s stupid I can’t get this parenting thing right. Two weeks into the New Year and I
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Honestly, it’s been a season of craziness. I feel like I just can’t catch a break. Sometimes it’s hard not to believe that all this craziness isn’t a reflection of me. When your world is caving in, it is pretty easy to start pointing the finger at your self-worth. If only I had better time
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by Jessica Turner Somewhere today there is a woman who had to let something go that she held close for a long time. Maybe she had to let it go again, for the thousandth time, but she did. She handled it. She is my hero. Standing very still is another woman who feels very alone,
guest post by Emily Humpries When I was young, I knew that I loved kids. I knew (and often heard) that I was good with kids. I started babysitting at a pretty young age, and I LOVED it. Then, not long after I graduated college, I became a nanny, and I worked for a
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Vital seasons of our lives are sometimes painful preparations for our future destiny. God has promised. “Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing” James
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As a wife, daughter, sister, friend, aunt, and fellow human being I cannot afford to be careless with my own words. Lately, I have been keenly aware of how words really do produce either life or death (Proverbs 18:21). This truth must raise us to a higher standard. We must learn to use few but
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And if you give even a cup of cold water to one of the least of my followers, you will surely be rewarded. Matthew 10:42 It was late in the evening and I was exhausted from the stress of the day, I really just wanted to get in bed and read a good book. Except
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It’s more important how you walk through the door then what door you walk through. Holy Spirit spoke these words as I was washing dishes one evening. They brought comfort to my weary soul in a season of decision-making. I’d been numb waiting for a door to open, maybe even little offended. I thought God
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