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There’s a quiet magic in these days leading up to Christmas, in the ordinary moments that feel anything but. I find myself pausing over the little things—my children’s crooked letters on a freshly completed worksheet, the way a first attempt at a poem or a drawing comes out uneven but full of heart, the way…
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For the next 12 days, we are returning to posts from the past that have been the most popular with YOU! Here’s our fourth post as a nod to our readers. Who Was the Murdered Woman? A cheap Saturday night took you down. You died stupidly and harshly . . . I failed you as…
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Christmas season asks you to slow the frantic machinery. It asks you to step out of the rushing current and stand still long enough to feel your own breath. The world keeps shouting for speed. God whispers for stillness. And the whisper is the only voice that actually feeds you. There’s a strange beauty in…
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Come into my home with me today, join me in my prayer life, and my daily reading. Welcome! A Jewel: Faith is an extrordinary weapon in life. Use it diligently and find its true meaning. It is faith that builds hope. “Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, [as conformity…
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I hated discipline. Every form of it. Until I learned that disciple is not punishment. Growing up we were punished for every slight infraction we made in my father’s kingdom. If you spoke or behaved inappropriately, a leather belt was waiting to connect with your raw skin. Any infraction, after he delivered his punishment, was…
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On the question of fear, ask yourself: Do I fear people I know to be abusers? Fear can be an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. That seems like a healthy thing, doesn’t it? Then why do we have such a hard…
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If I could sit with my younger self, I’d tell her to breathe. You were trying to be the hyper-independent woman the culture told you to be, as if needing nothing and no one would make you strong. You bought every promise feminism sold about freedom and self-creation, so you kept reinventing yourself, hoping the…
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I’m circling back to some ideas that I touched on in my former post.I’ve been mulling over these ideas all week and there is a bit more I’d like to say on this idea of autonomy, the Self, and the God who heals all. For centuries, women were told their worth came through service first…
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Come into my home with me today, join me in my prayer life, and my daily reading. Welcome! A Jewel: An oracle of the Lord is an announcement from God. In Zechariah there is a judgment on Israel’s enemies. In the quest to quickly understand bible verses about Israel being chosen, we are reminded of…
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Come into my home with me today, join me in my prayer life, and my daily reading. Welcome! A Jewel: Have you ever been misunderstood? I was reading today in I Samual. It starts with the story of Hannah. She was married to a man that had two wives. She, unfortunately, could not conceive. At…