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Every New Beginning Comes From Another Beginning’s End

  Friends, the “Special Announcement” I alluded to last week is a bittersweet one. I hope you’ll take a listen to the short video above for the details. As always, I’m so grateful for every single one of you who’ve shown up at this table time and time again. Your friendships have blessed me beyond all words. I’ll still be…
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Spring Spotlight & Giveaway

Welcome back, friend. I pray Spring is whispering sunshine-scented joy into your home and life this week. Friends, with all the things going on in my world, I’ve somehow managed to miss the Spotlight & Giveaway drawings for February and March! So, guess what? We’re gonna do this thing Party Style with all three drawings this week!! Let’s get this…
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When Broken Places Become Timely Places

Perhaps 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 were anything…
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Rise On Up

Everywhere I turn, I see it. Suffering. Pain. Sorrow. My compassion can barely stand itself. Have you noticed it too, friend? A tide of trouble beats against the shores of my heart, begging a prayer or two or ten. It sometimes feels like more than a heart was made to hold. We want life and health and peace for our…
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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 of prayer?…
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Snow Still Falls in Spring

When we first moved from the deep-south to the mid-west, I devoted many-an-hour to my favorite new past-time: Watching fresh snow fall from the heavens. (A sky-show we Sunshine State  girls dream of all our lives.) Rhythmic magic, drifting in peaceful purpose, as if called for calm by its Maker. And, it didn’t disappoint. Until that day in May, six…
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Fluent in the story of tomorrow, my heart envision Fluent in the story of tomorrow, my heart envisioned scene upon scene of a future where my little one grew and laughed and lived.
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Yet, dreams that once danced deep in the hollows of my heart now rest inside a slip of bygone time.
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One moment I was pregnant with life—the next, a heartbeat lost to eternity.
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Whether miscarriage or other aching loss, perhaps you, too, know this empty echo in your spirit as you grieve your beautiful dreams interrupted. I’m so sorry for your loss, dear friend.
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It’s okay to feel what you feel; God isn’t judging you for being human and heartbroken. The Lord understands your disappointment and confusion, and He doesn’t need you to filter your pain.
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Your God is right here, right now, loving you where you are.
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In times like these when there are no answers to the “whys” your heart cries, dear friend, may you rest in the tender love of God, who is forever with you.
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Curl up in His palm and be held in the comfort of His care.
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Dear friend, throughout the broken places of our s Dear friend, throughout the broken places of our stories, the hurt that left us feeling broken has never limited God’s power in our lives.
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You see, God’s activity isn’t limited by our understanding.
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Even when His hand isn’t visible from today’s perspective, our faithful God is working amid the scars of our stories, growing abundant life and purpose.
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Dear friend, the broken parts of your story don’t make you a broken person. You’re still the whole, cherished, purpose-filled woman God created you to be. 
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The wounds of your story aren’t lost on your God. Take heart—those scars you fear might limit you, become powerful testaments of the God who tenderly meets you in them, growing abundance in their midst.
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