By Laura Bunn We lived in a 700-square-foot apartment when I found out I was pregnant with our first child. My husband and I watched many of our college friends move into luxury city apartments promising “instagrammable views.” But we’d spent the past three years in a one-bedroom, basement-level apartment, working diligently to pay off […]
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by Hannah Jessen Conway During the recent gasoline shortage, I found myself with an empty tank. After finally finding a gas station with gas, I began to fill up my car when the person behind me got out of his car. “Don’t take it all!” I glanced back at him, trying to see if he
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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 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 Glenda Gordon I’ve always been a WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) kind of girl, preferring to wear comfortable clothes and no make-up. I see myself as more down-to-earth than pretentious. Though it seems clear on the outside I know who I am, I’ve accepted the fact that I’ll be learning about myself for the
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