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Finding Delight in Difficulty
Beauty often hides in the strangest places. It surprises you, slipping in through a mist of cloudy darkness. How many times do I miss it? How many times have I wrapped myself up tight, focused only on...
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THE DAY GOD SENT ME A NOTE
I was sixteen that year, finished with high school and praying, “God, what should I do with my life?” It was a natural progression. God had shown up when I was twelve and by the time I was thirteen, I...
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true mother-love belongs to more than just mothers
There’s something intimate and beautiful that happens when a woman gives birth. Something glorious. Or so I’m told. “So, until you have your own baby,” I hear, “you just won’t understand.” And when I...
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How to Learn Acceptance-With-Joy
Some evenings, my heart aches. It’s just a fact of life. Hearts beat, they bleed, they ache. I ache for all that is wrong in me. The ways my-will rises and crashes within. I surrendered it, you know....
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The invisible qualities of God are clearly seen through His creation
Last evening our daughter came running into the house. “Mom, Dad! Come look!” We went outside to find thousands (it must have been!) of birds lining the electric wires for as far as we could see. I...
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How to Survive God’s Silence
I was drowning in a vast ocean of emptiness. Why was God silent while I, who had followed Him faithfully for so many years, was begging for answers? I mourned the loss of a baby who never truly lived....
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God Always Hears When We Talk To Him
It’s quiet now except the hum of the dishwasher. We ate taco soup for dinner, with iceberg lettuce salad. The kids were super excited about the salad. “This is so good,” they told me on their 3rd and...
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My Favorite Thing About God
I sat across from a line of women. They were all wearing orange jumpsuits and their stories came in fragmented pieces. The first half hour I spent rehearsing their names in my mind. Names have always...
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Infertility Showed Me the Face of God
Jacob had a soul-wound that spilled all over the pages of Genesis. From before he was even born this striving, pulling, grasping desire to make himself great burned through his veins. Every time we...
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Why Your Greatest Struggle Is Also Your Greatest Blessing
I’m not an extravagant person. I’m simple and my dreams were simple. By the time I was in my mid-twenties, I was married to a wonderful man and living in a tiny house on a beautiful farm outside of a...
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