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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