Trials are discouraging. Find encouragement for overcoming trials. Life is hard, so next time the world is falling apart, let Jesus put you back together.
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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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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Are you bold or timid in your prayer life? I am a wishy-washy prayer warrior! I go back and forth between the two depending on where I am in my own faith journey, the amount of sleep I had the night before and whether or not I am in a season of joy or crisis.
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A guest post by Valerie Murray | edited by Nicki Schroeder It’s garbage day and once again our garbage is overflowing with bags that don’t fit into the cans. That’s how life, in general, feels for me lately. Things are piling up—the laundry, the emails, the errands. And my to-do list just gets longer, even though
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I don’t know what happens when you hear God calling you to something, but I typically do what Jonah did. I run the other way. Especially when it doesn’t fit into my tidy plans. Sometimes I run so hard and so far that I fill the calendar with a million other little things to avoid
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