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Falling for Fall {5 Things to Do Now}
I love fall. I love everything about it. Yes, I know in some parts of the country the arrival of Fall also signals that a long cold winter is near. But I don’t like to think that way. I don’t want to...
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Are you coasting or cruising?
Last month I got a speeding ticket. [Yes, again.] In my defense I was “caught” at the bottom of a hill – just like I was the past three times I’ve gotten caught speeding. Now, don’t get distracted by...
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The Christmas Party that Almost Wasn’t
The phone rang, and I just knew it was someone calling about the party. My stomach sank, and I got that nervous tummy feeling. You know that one that happens when you’re tongue tied and the words wont...
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No More Fairytales: Faith is A New Kind of Family
Psst. Guess what. I don’t want to tell you this. But, it’s true. I wasn’t able to celebrate the holidays the way we all dreamed for ourselves, as a child. A momma. A papa. Aunts and uncles. And a...
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The Good Side Of Conflict
When I was in my early twenties, there was nothing I disliked more than conflict. I won’t use the tired cliché that I avoided it like the plague. But, since I just used it anyhow, I’ll admit I tried...
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When “Less” Really Is “More”
I walked the mall yesterday while my daughter Gracie was at a birthday party. Should have been a great opportunity to get some Christmas shopping done as I waited, right? Wrong. Though I normally...
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Special Easter Traditions
As dogwoods bloom, tulips tip their hand, and cluttered closets are cleaned, I’m reminded that spring is in the air. With the windows cracked open allowing the sacred sounds of robins whistling in...
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The Perfect Gift
Admission: My love language is gifts. If you want to make me happy, then have a birthday, an anniversary, or give birth to a baby. I will then scour the earth finding you the perfect personalized...
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This Mother’s Day video – click to view – is based on a blog post written by our very own Lisa-Jo Baker. May it encourage and remind you that: There are those who say this is ordinary. Don’t buy that...
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On This Memorial Day :: For The Heroes And Those Who Love Them
If looks could kill, she vaporized me on the spot. In spite of her laser beam pupils boring into me, I kept my voice level. Calmly and gently, I addressed my concerns with her child’s behavior towards...
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Happy 4th of July!
Photo by Scott Robinson On this 4th of July, we are once again reminded of the privileges we enjoy–and we are exceedingly grateful for everyone who protects those freedoms. Thank you to the men and...
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Catching Joy
I’d be willing to bet you’ve experienced some deep, hard things. Moments that can’t be erased and memories that still haunt. Life change happened, whether you wanted it to or not. But for all the...
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Jesus in the Metadata
I had a dream recently, the night after I participated in a Help-Portrait event at the Allume conference in Greenville, South Carolina. I saw a sheet with a list of names, highlighted in blue, of...
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When You Want Your CHRISTmas to Have More Christ and Less Crazy
~ excerpt from The Greatest Gift ‘Big and glossy and loud and fast -—- that’s how this bent-up world keeps turning. But God, when He comes to us — He shows up in this fetal ball. Christmas is coming...
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Truth in the Tinsel: An Advent Experience for Little Hands
My daughter was just a few weeks away from being 2 years old when I picked up a little Advent book from the clearance section at a Christian bookstore. There were flaps in the back to open each day of...
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Thanksgifting
Children know. There’s absolutely, positively no fooling them–they know. I was a frazzled mama of three, my oldest still four when the youngest was born. It was all I could do to manage house, home...
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The Rhythm of Thanksgiving
Three years ago you were born even as I fought against nature and attempted to hold you in. This is not how the baby books tell you to approach labor. Quite the opposite, actually. Apparently I was...
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A Thanksgiving Scripture
Come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come to Him with thanksgiving. Let us sing psalms of praise to him. For the Lord is a great God, a great King...
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A Sunday Scripture
In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through...
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The History Behind 5 Great Christmas Carols
A few months ago, I wrote about some of the most-loved hymns in Church history and the back stories that made them the classics they remain today. I thought it’d be fun to do the same with a few...
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