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Stop. Breathe. Come to Me.
“Come to me all who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 I am a weary, tired, and exhausted momma. For the last four nights I have stayed up into the wee hours of the morning trying to complete a number of homework assignments for graduate school. As…
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Let’s Be Honest
The king is pleased with words from righteous lips; he loves those who speak honestly. Proverbs 16:13 The boy above…the one with the laughing eyes, cool as a cucumber demeanor, and mile wide grin also happens to be the example of brutal honesty. Honest to a fault at times. Honest enough to even get himself…
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But I Don’t Want to Build Anymore Tents!
Paul lived and worked with them, for they were tentmakers just as he was. Each Sabbath found Paul at the synagogue, trying to convince the Jews and Greeks alike. And after Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul spent all his time preaching the word. Acts 18:3-5 “Remember, Paul built tents for…
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Fearless in the Face of Doubt
“Truly, I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.” Mark 11:23 This week marks the beginning of another semester of homework deadlines, on-line discussions, and late Sunday…
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I’m Happy. Really!
A glad heart makes a happy face, a broken heart crushes the spirit. Proverbs 15:13 I am going to be honest. I have a problem with this particular Proverb. Solomon while certainly wise and getting most things right, has it wrong in this one line. I just have to beg to differ here. Why? Because…
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I Don’t Want To Be A Modern-Day Martha
So I decided there is nothing better than to enjoy food and drink and to find satisfaction in work…these pleasures are from the hand of God. Ecclesiastes 2:24 “Mommy! Mommy! We want to clean! What can we clean?” Say what? There is no way I heard that correctly. These kids want to clean? Did I really…
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The Greatest Gifts Can’t Be Placed Under a Tree
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 1 Corinthians 13:11 I remember when I was a child filling out my Christmas list each year. I would take it to…
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Filling the Empty Places with Hope
Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison. Hebrews 13:3 Lately, I have been feeling a bit of nostalgia. Sometimes I long for the days when life was a bit more simple. When perhaps hearts were not so heavy. When the Christmas season was a little less hustle…
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When Loving Others is Hard
Love one another with brotherly affection. Romans 12:10 Love. Defined as admiration, desire, or attraction. Most of us think of this definition when we think of the meaning of the word. No matter our walks in life, most of us, probably all of us, have experienced admiration, desire, or attraction. Love. Also defined as unselfish…
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Why a Little Magic at Christmas Doesn’t Hurt
“It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself” -Charles Dickens The picture above is, in fact, a picture of the Elf on a Shelf. This Elf has been a part of this household for two Christmas seasons now, and in all honesty,…
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