Happy Holidays, friends! Whether you’re baking with toddlers, having coffee with friends, shopping with teens, or holding memories close in a quiet home—I pray the Spirit of the season falls fresh on you this Christmas. Y’all, time is a cookie-monster in hourglass clothing. Barely tasting one year before it’s swallowing the next. December marks the two year anniversary of this…
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The Year We Ate Thanksgiving Dinner on a Card Table
As if serving Thanksgiving Pig instead of Thanksgiving Turkey wasn’t breaking with tradition enough, this particular year we’d managed to take Thanksgiving sacrilege to a whole new level. But isn’t it just like God to tuck divine lessons into the most ordinary of life? Who knew a simple card table would become sacred ground? By the way, lest you get…
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When Hard Places Become Timely Places
Perhaps (for sure), I’ve had a daydream (or three) of someone coming by to make beds and vacuum floors—but this wasn’t exactly how I pictured it going down. Quite the country mile (on a muddy gravel road) from what we’d planned, but, nonetheless, Suite 229 would be our address for a while. Housekeeping angels aside, those months of hotel life…
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When You Forget Your Grace-Face
Ever had days when your grace-face threatened to go into hiding…or on vacation…or to an all-you-can-eat cupcake buffet? Yeah, me too. Join me over at Proverbs 31 today and find out how God honored the earnest prayers of a weary heart…and returned the grace to my face. Click to continue reading.
Blush of Dawn
“I love my alarm clock.” Said no one ever. Rude, artificial awakenings have a way of making one cranky from go. Or maybe it’s just me? I count it as grace that somewhere along the way, God exchanged my ill-mannered, screaming alarm for the whisper of sunrise tiptoeing across the horizon. Elegantly singing a breathtaking chorus of amber and rose,…
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What If…
What if… What if time served us rather than us serving it? What if the church were a judgement-free zone? There’s nothing worth more That will ever come close What if poverty wasn’t? And humility was? No thing can compare You’re our Living Hope What if we lived as a people who believed in the power…
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