I usually want to embrace the New Year with the best of intentions. We get a fresh start when the calendar turns over into a new year. It’s the perfect time to lighten our load or get a little do over. I usually create a heavier burden by developing a big list of things I […]
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Have you ever had to learn to embrace your new normal? A while ago I decided to make a radical change in my schedule. It was a hard decision, but it allowed me to create margin in my day. And that margin helped me take back a little of the peace that had been lost
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I’ll let you in on a little secret, there’s no such thing as perfect! We know this, yet still set unreasonable standards for ourselves and others. What’s up with that? We are all a little broken, and that’s OK! We will never be perfect. Most of us will never be a size 0 or have
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Have you ever felt like a weary soul in search of rest? So many things can weigh us down as we go through life. I honestly don’t understand why hard stuff happens in our lives. But the Bible doesn’t promise us that once we accept Jesus as our Savior and enter into a relationship with
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When my husband and I found out we couldn’t have kids naturally, I was so mad at God. I often broke down in tears during church and felt so embarrassed. Infertility is devastating. Worship felt so awkward! Years later, when we went through a failed adoption of three siblings ages 2, 4 and 6, grief
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It’s hard to seek joy when life is hard. We’re human after all and it’s not “normal” to be thankful for the hard stuff that happens to us. We’ve all had really bad days. The kind where you wake up exhausted, feeling broken and fed up with the world before your feet ever hit the
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The doctors said it would take a miracle for us to have kids naturally. “In you, Lord my God, I put my trust.” Psalm 25:1 The odds are stacked against us, they said. Our only options are to pop rounds of pills to spike fertility or we could try a few rounds of IVF. That’s
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I have been praying some pretty bold prayers over the past few years. Prayers that give me hope for my future, even when a certain situation in my present seems dismal. I’ve spent many sleepless nights begging God to hear my heart’s deepest cries. I’ll be honest, I often feel like God is off busy
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