A Guest Blog by Becky Meyerson “You will never be able to outrun the rested.” This statement from the pulpit one Sunday landed right in my heart. That is what I was longing for! To run in life and pursue the purposes of God with energy. But at the moment—I was tired. My husband and […]
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A Guest Blog by Niki Hardy If you knew me, you’d probably think that by now that I’d be a dab hand at trusting God. But believe me—I’m not. I still find it as difficult as squeezing into my tumble-dried skinny jeans. The last fifteen years have taken me through deep pain and loss. And
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A Guest Blog by Cailin Davis My parents divorced when I was just three years old. Although I was too young to understand the gravity of such an event, my immature heart still felt the pain of their brokenness and the fear of my powerlessness to put them back together again. During my childhood years,
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I remember hearing the phrase, “Motherhood is just one long guilt trip”. I did not yet know how true that would be for me as I embarked on the first years of parenting as a working mom. While I felt a sense of peace when I made the decision to return to work, I didn’t
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A Guest Blog by Shauna Letellier There we sat at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota—the explanation for our visit requiring a lot of words that spell check doesn’t recognize. Suffice it to say, we had a scare. Our schedule was filled with hours of waiting and intermittent appointments and tests. We waited in the
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A Guest Blog by Michele Morin “Nine chapters, one hundred fifty two pages—how hard can this be?” I thought as I loaded a well-known Christian classic onto my Kindle. Slogging through chapter two, reality began to set in. I had always been an avid reader but felt a need to be more intentional in my
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A Guest Post by Natalia Drumm She stood on the outskirts of the room, her black hoodie tucked up around her head. Black smudged eyeliner hiding her eyes as her dirty sneakers kicked the floor around her feet. I stood back in the lobby and watched the interactions of the Tuesday night youth group as
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A Guest Blog by Gleniece Lytle I am a list-making woman. A woman who simply loves to schedule things. A woman who needs to know ahead of time what she is doing on any given day—and with confidence jots down the best way to go about it. I love the usefulness of planning ahead and
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A Guest Post by Jennifer Bryant “Look, I’ll eat the broccoli, then you eat the broccoli! Okay?” My chubby-cheeked little man watched in curious anticipation as I steered the forkful of veggies to my mouth. Is she gonna do it? He couldn’t talk at the time, so his inner monologue is actually my interpretation of
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A Guest Blog by Elita Friesen I was eleven weeks pregnant when the bleeding started. Not again, I prayed.Please, God.Not a fourth miscarriage. For the next several months, my husband and I were in and out of emergency rooms and doctor’s offices as they tried to explain the complications threatening to end my pregnancy. Each
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