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Writing My Own Morning Prayer

January 25, 2019

God, help me to be patient and loving to myself, my husband, our children, our family, and our friends. Please guide me away from influences that don’t fill my [...]

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The More Unlovable the Kid, the More I Need to Love

January 18, 2019

This Sunday, I was thinking about the healing power of love. How, when people are going through a tough time, sometimes all they need is to be loved. I’ve [...]

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Where My Feet Are – Time Tells the Truth

January 11, 2019

When I’m interested in changing anything in my life, I get into this hyper-driven state of research. And now that there are so many resources, I can article-blog-book-movie-social media [...]

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3 Ways to Take Better Care of Myself

January 4, 2019

Those kids got back to the safety of school just in time. Mama was starting to struggle with kindness during those last 48 hours. Which provided, yet another, opportunity [...]

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The Magic Ingredient to Getting and Staying Healthy

December 28, 2018

I’ve heard it explained that food cravings derive from an attempt to either quell an emotion or fill an emptiness. For years I knew I was using food as [...]

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“Slow Me Down Lord”

December 14, 2018

Two years ago, after my brother passed away, this poem was found in his car. A close friend had it framed for G-Man and I. As my head was [...]

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How? or Why? – What People are REALLY Asking

November 16, 2018

When someone asks me how I’m doing, I feel loved and cared for. When someone asks me why I’m doing something, it can quickly feel like an evaluation or [...]

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3 Reasons to Change the Scale I Get on Everyday

November 9, 2018

With the season of eating quickly approaching, I got to thinking about the scale. My scale lives up on a shelf in my closet. I stopped regularly using it [...]

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Busy – Do You Feel Adult Peer Pressure to Be Frantic?

October 26, 2018

Being too busy makes me so agitated and pissy that I’ve had several serious come to Jesus realizations about how much I can physically do as one human being. [...]

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5 Ways to Keep My Cool with Constant Schedule Changes

October 12, 2018

One of the realities of conducting business and raising children in 2018 is that—thanks to smartphones, tablets, and computers, people have the ability to change the schedule at a [...]

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I Can’t Read – My Solution to Email Overload

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Never Out of Site, Never Out of Mind – Becoming Less of Who I Really Am

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