Tag: Purpose
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Which one will you choose?
I trekked up the hill to my old “quiet place” to get alone with God. To be alone to allow Him to fill me with peace during an otherwise stressful week. One with deadlines galore, and tasks to be completed before a break could be taken. Time to be reminded of what made this week…
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Such a time…
For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 When I began this blog many years ago, I began so in a caffeinated state, usually at 3am in the morning. Usually battling the wills of autism. Here it is almost 7 years later. It’s still 3am. My state is…
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Let them remember you
“These kids are not going to remember us. So just do your job, go home, and forget about what goes on here. Because when they leave, they will forget about you.” A conversation. Said after a hopeless week. After taking home way too much junk from kids who aren’t “mine,” but some days certainly feel…
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How much more?
How much more God? How much more do you want me to take? As I struggle daily with actually carrying out what He has asked me to do, I wrestle frequently with wanting desperately to just give up. Asking Him to just send someone else, because surely I must not be it. As I sit…
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Love that simply gives
“I filled it up. There are more left, but I stopped at 316.” 316? “Yes. 316 mints.” A jar. Filled to the top with 316 mints counted out by my daughter. “You know. For John 3:16-For God so loved the world He gave…and you are giving.” Or so I thought. They, however, were never given.…
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Stand up and walk
Stuck. Sometimes we just get stuck. I don’t mean like in the mud, or in an elevator-although we can certainly feel at times that we are stuck and not going anywhere. Like everything else is passing us by. Like everyone else is being blessed, healed, whatever. And we are not moving at all. A man…
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The growing season
For over a year now, I have grown a deep affection for plants. The reasons and circumstances for this are a story in itself, and a subject for a later time…however, I used to absolutely hate them! I could not keep anything alive. When my son and I did manage to plant anything, it either…
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Stay in your lane
Track practice. Track uniforms. Long (and I do mean long…) track meets. That’s our new life right now. For a bit I was unscathed by “sports mom” duty. Thankful for not having to drive to and fro. Or sit through my Saturday in hot sun, or frigid cold temperatures on a Tuesday night. Until I…
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Blessings in the midst of weeds
So let us not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 Dandelions. Those wispy flowers that can grow in the most unlikely of places. One which most see as only a common pest. A weed. Yet,…
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Keep on keeping on…
I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past, and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. …
Grace N Grounds 