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How to Use This Season for Spiritual Growth
When I think back to this time in my life, I will want to know I invested in my spiritual growth, my nearness to Christ. We have an opportunity now to reinvent routines…
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A Checklist to Change Your Mindset
I think about this verse a lot and often wonder how I’m supposed to do it. Our mindsets and thoughts can be framed in so many different ways. With our minds we receive…
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Who Remembers Me?
A few weeks ago I wrote an encouragement to remember God’s faithfulness. Today I’m calling us to consider remembrance again but from a different angle—one that shapes our identities and fills our longing…
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By His Strength I Pick up the Next Toy
I'm writing this on Easter Sunday. It’s a day that radiates in my memory with sunshine, Sunday school, deviled eggs, lemony desserts, and bare feet in the grass. The days leading up to…
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The Personal Love of Jesus
In human relationships, exclusivity is a sign of intimacy and deep, personal love. I expect my husband to love me in a unique way that he loves no one else. As the only…
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Finding Perspective in Times of Panic
I am frustrated with myself. It's not circumstances, loss of income, or decline of health inspiring this frustration, but my own reaction of panic and anxiety. Two weeks ago I ventured online to…
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Loneliness, Isolation and an Answered Prayer
This week I’m sharing a story that I wrote for Faith Storytellers. After graduating college, I moved 4 times within 6 years. Just about the time I solidified friendships in one city, I…
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The Power of Spoken Words: Thoughtfully Curating a Podcast Playlist
Note: I considered writing about the pandemic and quarantine today, but I’m seeing those topics everywhere and decided to provide something different. As you read, think about how this topic applies now, in…
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4 Tips to Find Your Own Way in a World of Information Overload
Living in the information age is wonderful, isn’t it? What can I use as a substitute for a can of diced tomatoes? What are the best things to do with children in Asheville,…
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Finding Hope in Pregnancy Loss
"Living in Light of Eternity" is the tagline to my website and the main theme encompassed in my writing. There's a reason and a story behind that phrase. In March 2014 at 19…
