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Spin Doctor – Flipping Everything Towards the Positive

February 1, 2019

We have a saying in our family, “God’s Plan, not mine.” It was born years ago from an attempt to develop a practice of radical faith. I was in [...]

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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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Family Grace – a New Take on an Old Tradition

November 23, 2018

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend to you. Expressing gratitude for what I’m most thankful for is the precise reason I put our pre-meal grace under the microscope years ago. When I [...]

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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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Explanations vs. Excuses – Am I Using Stress as an Excuse

November 2, 2018

From a young age, it bothered me when people would make excuses and speak for their children, “Oh he’s shy, but thank you for having him.” Being shy is [...]

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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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Mama, Where Does Anger Come From?

October 19, 2018

Well, honey, this is what happens with me… Mama gets tired. Now, we’re good there, nothing too scary about being tired. People get tired. But, instead of getting the [...]

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Where My Feet Are – Time Tells the Truth

Family Grace – a New Take on an Old Tradition

How? or Why? – What People are REALLY Asking

3 Reasons to Change the Scale I Get on Everyday

Explanations vs. Excuses – Am I Using Stress as an Excuse

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

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