<a href=”http://brendabradfordottinger.com/chasing-community/”><img src=”http://brendabradfordottinger.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Linkup-button.jpg” alt=”” width=”250″ height=”250″ /></a> It’s a casual, pony-tail & sandals environment around here, but a few important reminders: Please remember to visit and leave some encouragement for other friends who’ve linked-up today — this is the heart of community & your words of support could be just the thing another friend needs to hear today. Please only…
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A Time to Remember
Hey, friend. ♥ Do you participate in the annual One-Word shenanigans? You know, where a single word is chosen to represent a focus for the year? I’ve been on the One-Word Train for a while now. The last few years, God’s surprised me with words I haven’t always understood, or known how to implement. And, honestly, I like it better…
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Be (Un)impressive
New years rarely come in gently, do they? Like toddlers in a toy-store they charge in, carrying resolutions and dreams bigger than their britches. Fresh beginnings, inspiring and heavy with promise—but often heavy, too, with fear. Fear of failure, of inadequacy, of not being enough for the dreams we’ve dared to wish upon a newborn year. So much weight on…
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The Weight of the Wait
Shuffling through my small Kentucky kitchen, I flipped the calendar page. October 2008 — new month of the year, same cry of my heart. Time was younger then, and so were we. We’d moved a lot, and while I believe those years of wandering were part of God’s plan, I longed to feel at home…somewhere. We’d had happy times; there…
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Heaven’s Boy
Do you ever think about Jesus’ mother? Her courage, grace, strength—her faith. Mary is one of the many people I look forward to meeting in eternity. Before the Holy Spirit lived inside us all, she housed the Lord inside her womb—growing the baby Savior in secret. I picture her face as He took His first steps—bright eyes beaming with joy…
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#ChasingCommunity Linkup 49
Hey friend, I hope you’re having a beautiful advent season. May we find spaces of quiet amidst the busy, to sit calm in his presence–the baby who changed everything—the LORD who came to set us free. ♥ Thank you for joining us here at this table, week after week with your beautiful words of inspiration & hope. May God bless…
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