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Redefining Identity: Your Purpose Is Greater Than Your Role
It is hard to describe the excitement of seeing a brand-new product come to life. When you have carried a concept in your soul for years and when you have thought and prayed and brainstormed over the most effective way… Continue reading
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The Week Between
I am currently on Day 3 of my personal processing through The Week Between, a private tradition of mine for more years than I can remember. The week between the celebrations and the new, blank slate has always been the… Continue reading
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nonfiction vol 22: gratitude
Nonfiction Vol 22 is a wrap. All the guests have left, the confetti has been swept away (well, sort of), the mess has been cleaned up. Our lives have resumed and Thanksgiving has been celebrated. It’s the Monday after the… Continue reading
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who are you?
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 (KJV) Well, for starters, I am… Continue reading
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the best girl.
She came to us on a cold night in January, 2008. Born on November 25, 2007, she was just a tiny little ball of black fur who had just found her growl and was enjoying using it as she stole… Continue reading
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asia.
Who says you have to be able to speak words in order to talk? This picture screams attitude. Mom is gone. I am bereft. Bereft, I tell you! I am going to sit here and show you half my face… Continue reading
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the salt. the light. the simplicity.
I am ingesting the Sermon on the Mount verse by verse these days and the verse below was my morning contemplation. As I pondered and reflected, I was reminded of an article I wrote several years ago for a publication… Continue reading
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be still
So as I have been doing the hard work of studying to be quiet, the Lord thundered another Word in my spirit during yet another one of my sessions of angst. Around the beginning of this year – fully a… Continue reading
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be quiet
Be quiet. The gray, white, and brown of the landscape makes me think the winter artist paid a visit to Chip and Joanna at the Silos and gained inspiration from the color scheme they have made famous. The spaces of… Continue reading
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the filter of first
“I can’t think in the morning. My body gets up, but my brain doesn’t wake up until noon.” “I am SO not a morning person.” “My mornings are chaotic. No way can I connect with God.” “I’m a young mom.… Continue reading
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