The God of Wonders It’s good to be back here in this place with you. My time away was well spent with my family, sitting courtside for a whole lot of basketball, completing a book proposal for what I hope to be my second book, writing articles and posts for…
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God Is With You When Others Are Not
I knew I shouldn’t let it get me down. But it did. “Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins.” -Ecclesiastes7:20 NIV I know people are fallible. In fact, because I know it so well, it sometimes feels…
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If God Is for Us, Who Can Be Against Us? {A Bible Study Review, Giveaway, and #MOH Link-Up!}
I don’t remember when they first breathed hope into my life and made it clear just how much it means to have God for me. But I do know that again and again God has proved His promises true. He always steps into the difficult places of my life and…
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Dear Mom, This Is for When You Need to Guard Your Heart {#MOH Link-Up}
Is today one of those days when you need help? A day that’s been a difficult mom day? A day you need help to stand up against the whispered lies of the enemy … and help to guard your heart so it doesn’t fall apart? If so, this is for…
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Yes! You Are a Miracle and Most Wonderfully Made! {#MOH Link-Up}
Feeling comfortable in my own skin has been a long process for me. I was always tall for my age – strong and athletic instead of “skinny” and delicate. I loved the sparkly things in life while at the same time was happy getting muddy or jumping into athletics with…
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The Kind of Love That Heals What Is Broken {#MomentsofHope Link-Up}
What is better – to continue to love but risk the ache from the bitter slashes of hurt and betrayal or build a wall of steel and never love deeply again? Early in my life, like so many of us, I learned about the sting of rejection and careless words….
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Why Do We Pray? And Other Big Questions! {#MomentsofHope Link-Up}
My mom would sit alongside me as I lay tucked in my bed. Each night she would pull out one of my two favorite children’s Bibles and with her beautiful German accent, read a story to me. Then, together we would pray the Children’s Prayer. Now I lay me down…
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Motherhood, Encouragement, and Becoming Me: A Video Tribute to Mom
Becoming Me Raising our babies is hard work. Making the right decisions weighs heavily no matter the season. Whether we are figuring out how to get them into a healthy sleeping pattern when they’d rather stay up all night and sleep all day, or we are handing over the car…
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When People Hurt You {#MomentsofHope Link-Up}
As I walked away from my friend, I felt that familiar ache in my heart. Another time … another relationship … another situation that hurt. Rejection. Betrayal. I knew in my mind we live in a broken world and immunity from that brokenness isn’t part of the program. But that…
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