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Continue reading →: A Tribute To My Mom
Dear Mom, I read a post of Facebook the other day where a mom was telling her adult kids what she really wanted for Mother’s Day. In short: Time with them. I agree. Being a mom myself I feel the exact same way. But since we’re far apart and don’t…
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Continue reading →: 10 simple things you can eat right now to help clean up your diet
Ok, so I usually don’t write about this. I previously had a blog about clean eating and then writing there fell off the escalator of priorities in my life. But recently I had a “well woman” exam, a.k.a.- a papsmear, mammogram and fasting blood work. At 43, five feet eleven…
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Continue reading →: A slow-to-believe believer’s thoughts on Good Friday
It’s Good Friday. There’s a tsunami of meaning in those three words. Maybe for you it’s just TGIF. I get it. Honestly, I grew up hearing the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection, but for years it made no connection with my soul. If I’m honest the celebration (if you…
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Continue reading →: Three Practical Ways to Take Refuge in God
Photo Credit I’ve been thinking a lot these last few months about what it means practically to take refuge in God. Refuge isn’t a term we use often personally. On a political level we may think of refugees, and the place they go to flee the danger in their homeland…
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Continue reading →: When your heart is broken on Valentine’s Day
It’s not that other days with a broken heart aren’t painful. It’s just that on Valentine’s Day everywhere you look, go or listen pink shiny hearts and candy pour like salt on your wounds. I’ve waded my way through the gushing pink day with my own busted up heart many…
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Continue reading →: Let Down by God?
This past Sunday I stood in a high school theatre with dozens of people I don’t know looking up at the screen where the band was projecting the words to the songs we were singing to God: You’re never gonna letNever gonna let me downYou’re never gonna letNever gonna let…
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Continue reading →: Thoughts On Abortion in America: Hope and the Gospel in My Crisis Pregnancy
Tomorrow is the 44th anniversary of the famous Roe vs. Wade decision by the Supreme Court which put into motion the legal killing of unborn babies in the United States. From that date to today over 59 million babies have been aborted in this country alone. To put that in…
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Continue reading →: 5 Things Every Christian Can Do For President Trump (whether you like him or not) and the U.S.
Tomorrow the 45th president of the United States will be inaugurated into office. I did not vote for Donald Trump. I’m one of those evangelical Christians that doesn’t identify well with any political party nevertheless feels compelled to enact my right to vote in this country. I could not (and…
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Continue reading →: My Blog Facelift and a Little Mission Clarification
Yeah I changed my name again. I started blogging about 8 years ago actually. If you read through my blog (which I wouldn’t recommend… much better reading material out there) you’d find this blog has gone through several name changes and paint jobs. The content has had a similar theme…
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