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2020 Has Changed Us: How?
I'm aware that this pandemic is leaving a mark on each of us. But today I realized: I get to determine what changes in my heart!
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Four Easy Ways to Treasure Motherhood
I know it’s long past Advent, but there is this verse, subtly slipped into the end of the Christmas story which is stuck on repeat in my mind. You may have caught it when you did your Advent readings, or, like me the first time, it slipped past without notice. But it’s a good one, a gem, and it’s specifically written for and about a mother. It’s Luke 2:51: But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. (This is Jesus’ mother, Mary, written about her experience of raising Jesus.) As we begin a new year, let’s take this verse and make it a goal for this year. Let’s…
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How to Stop Missing Out on Your Good Life
I’m currently obsessing about my weight- the 20 extra pounds I’ve found somewhere in the last couple of years. Can anyone relate? I can have ten really amazing things going on in my life, but if there is one annoying thing (like 20 pounds) in my life, it’s like a fly buzzing around my head- – -constant and irritating, it distracts from all the things I should be enjoying. It seems like at any given time, there is one….or two….or four things that take up too much time and space in my mind. We all go through seasons, and the THING changes, but the distraction remains. It could be a season…