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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 too busy
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I have a friend who goes up to her cabin and spends regular weekends with Jesus. She walks in the woods and watches deer dancing in her front yard. She spends hours in her Bible. And many more hours on her knees confessing sins. She sings hymns and praises to our King. OK, I’ll admit
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I want to live a life showered in grace, don’t you? There seems to be a lot of things that threaten to get in the way. Like the need to look as if we have it all together. Or the fear of judgment that we will never measure up to other’s standards. And speaking of
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Have you ever felt like you were in the wrong place at the wrong time? I’ve had a lot of those moments over the years, but the biggest one was the day my car was hit by a man who was in a hurry to get to an appointment. His poor decision smashed my car
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I used to be a runner, averaging about 10 miles every other day for years. Then a car accident happened in my early thirties that required the Jaws of Life to come and rescue me. Nothing was broken, but everything hurt. It was a trauma that radically changed my life. We all have hard stuff
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