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How Searching for My Nephew Gave New Meaning to Psalm 139

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In and through the Darkness of Depression

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I Dare You: Buy the Flowers

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May He Put You Together

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A Love Story: the Legacy of My Grandmother

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What You Just Can’t Do on Social Media

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High-waisted Jeans and
Emotional Muffin Tops

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My Early Morning Sisterhood

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Walking Arm in Arm

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Contributor Spotlight:
Pull Up a Chair with Denise, Michele & Renee!

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What’s Your Word?

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Praying for All of Us

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I Dare You: Buy the Flowers

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When You Feel Rejected and Unseen

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A Word for Those Who Feel Unseen

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In and through the Darkness of Depression

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When You’re in the Presence of Grief

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A Call to Courage!
(and a Community Survey)

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Ride with Your Hands Up

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Learning a Little Courage from Our Kids

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Today's Post

When You Feel Like You Keep
Dropping the Ball

by in:Encouragement

A couple years ago, I was at my friend Amy’s house, and after about three hours of zero conversation because we had between us eight kids (ages two, three, seven, seven, eight, eight, ten, and ten — like whoa), I was beginning to think we would never even finish a coherent sentence. But then the Lord carved out about twenty minutes of solid conversation between us, which went like this: Me: “I feel like I’m always failing at motherhood. I just keep dropping the ball. And I have a lot of fear . . . I just don’t know what I’m doing with my life.” I started crying, and we talked about how ...

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When Only God Will Listen

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I was so young then. That was my excuse anyway. I was working as a "women’s" editor at a newspaper when a worried mother came into the newsroom. She wanted to talk to someone about her college daughter, who she said had been raped — by the daughter’s boyfriend. Yet I froze. This was long before #MeToo, years before talk about campus rape or assaults against girls or women were openly aired. As I watched the mom telling me her story, all I could feel was panic, thinking: I don’t know what to ...

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God Loves to Work through You

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If you feel unprepared for what God is asking of you, I can relate. I’ve been struggling with the same feelings. What God whispered to my heart might help you take the next step forward in your adventure with Jesus, too. Recently, God showed me a new calling through reading His Word and years of waiting. I was thrilled He would choose to use me, but honestly, I was a little nervous at the scope of His assignment for me. He had been teaching me how each of us has a specific dwelling place ...

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Whose Words Can We
Really Believe These Days?

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I never met my father's father whose death preceded my birth, but family legend recounts him as saying, "Don't believe anything you hear or read and only half of what you see." In a culture where news and headlines are sometimes branded as fake, it's hard to know what to believe, isn't it? While I have no idea if Granddaddy Jake was being cynical or just funny (or even if this quote is true), I've found his advice to be helpful to remember. Over the course of our lifetimes, we hear countless ...

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