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Encouragement for every season of lifeIs forty the new thirty?
It seems like everywhere we look, thirty is the magic number. Thirty days to a new you, Whole30, thirty easy make-ahead crockpot meals, thirty-minute meals, you get the idea. For the last year or so, forty has been a much more important number for me, though, and it...
Hungry for Sacred
Two years ago, I entered into the most sacred three months of my entire life. My beautiful mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer at 62 and was given weeks, to perhaps a month or two, to live. She was gently told by doctors that there was nothing they could do. Upon...
Times of Refreshing
God promises us that He will grant us times of refreshing as His daughters. Maybe these times will actually involve spa treatments or hot bubble baths, or some other kind of physical relaxation. I’m not sure what relaxation looks like for you from day to day, but...
Rooted and Grounded
Have you ever heard the phrase, “Home is where the heart is”? Have you ever watched the movie? It’s a real tear-jerker, as Natalie Portman plays Novalee Nation, a pregnant teenager stranded in WalMart with only $5.55 in her pocket. I am in the middle of the book right...
Life Interrupted
I had been walking through life – back to work Mondays, over the hump Wednesdays, almost there Thursdays, when... trip, stumble, fly forward, throw my hands out, drop to my knees and STOP! Ouch! I landed sprawled on the cold cement sidewalk, catching my breath,...
Rotten Fruit
Leadership. It's not just a title. It's not just a status. It's character. Even if you don't feel you are a "leader" type, you can still lead simply by doing what is right. There are many different "hot potato" topics in battling sin and what important values are...
A Budget App that Works for Us
We knew something had to change. We didn’t have a lot of money stress, yet I couldn’t tell you exactly where our dollars were going. I knew our overall budget but the everyday groceries, postage, and (oops!) milk money for school just slipped through. We bought what...
Dump Your Diet (And Still Lose Weight)
It felt as though I had landed in some sort of sick and twisted funhouse. And for the record, it wasn’t really that fun. As I stood in front of my bathroom mirror, the woman looking back at me wasn’t who I expected her to be. She looked old, tired, and I’ll just say...
We Have this Hope
I’ll be honest, I didn’t want to go. Tim and I had just had dinner out with friends the night before, and with frigid subzero temps outside, staying indoors and cozy sounded marvelous. When one sitter after another said it wouldn’t work to watch our children, I took...
When You Need to Know You’re Doing a Good Job
“I know you want to give your son all the credit,” our child’s psychiatrist stated, “but you need to know that you deserve some credit for how well he’s doing too. Go home and tell your husband you’re both doing a really good job.” Her words caught me off guard, and I...
