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God Loves You
This week I wrote about fear, depression, and the intimacy of God’s Word and posted at Not Alone Mom. Read it if you need encouragement and a personal word of how much God loves you. This week as I …...
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Grace
I’m also posting today at She Stands and Encourage 24/7. “I struggle with it,” he said. Judgment is what he was struggling with. He is also wrestling with grace. I’ve wrestled with judgment and grace....
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Inspiring Stories: Stacey’s Story
Friday I posted The New Normal: 8 Tips for Working Moms at Not Alone Mom. It is my greatest privilege to share Stacey’s story of love and grace. She has walked many paths familiar to women – loss of...
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Parenting Series: Allow Yourself to Breathe – God’s Got You!
by contributing writer, Kristin L. Nelson at Not Alone Mom. I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. Psalm 121:1-2...
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Steps to Health and Healing – Pushing Through Fear
“Ouch, that hurts,” I told the physical therapist working on my knee. He was trying to figure out what was stable and what needed to be stretched after last week’s surgery. “We’re going to get you...
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Running Away, Giving Up and the Benefits of Being Caught
This week, I’ll be speaking in Western Michigan for two women’s groups on Hope Beyond the Picket Fence. I’ll be sharing what I call “my angry mom story.” It’s the hope and truth our family has lived...
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The Sound of Silence
And there was silence in Heaven. Revelation 8:1 I don’t feel right writing, but in my selfishness, I do. The tears roll down my face today. My heart is broken. Broken for a childhood friend who lost...
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The Resurrection:Real Victory for Real Life
A similar article was first published in The Purpose Magazine in March, 2013 The life-giving power of God’s word became real to me at seventeen. As a young girl with an eating disorder, I felt...
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How to Fight A Lion and Other Principalities
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly...
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Silent No More
I can be silent no more. Today’s Easter. For the Christian faith, it’s the most important celebration – more so than Christmas. It’s not popular to say you’re a Christ-follower. It wasn’t in the day...
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What It Takes To Bloom and Thrive
Today I put my hands in the ground for the first time. I pulled away dead stems, branches and leaves from plants and flowers that haven’t bloomed since Fall. Underneath the ugly brown foliage was...
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Why I Run and Why You Need Freedom, Too
The sun was in my face, good music was in my ears, and my feet hit the pavement. As my feet hit the ground with each strike, I was careful to land just right. After months of being injured, having …...
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The Gap, The Holes, and the Race to Fill Them
She sat there with a batting glove on her hand. It gave her power in the identity she’s forming. She’s a fighter. Inside is a girl who wants to be something else. I see it in the way she cocks …...
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I’m A Fighter. Why Fighting For What’s Important Is Worth It All
Thank you to those who read Kaylee’s inspiring story, “Loving the Kids“. Her words were a gift because we’ve seen the depth of her journey. Like her dad, she’s not one to put herself out there. I...
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Forty-five. Why Mid-life Is Not What I Feared
Today I’m forty-five. Not forty, not fifty, but halfway in between. Half of my life is completed, if I live until ninety, by the grace of God. For to me, to live is Christ, to die is gain. Philippians...
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Mother’s Day: Inspiring Women and Messed-Up Experiences in Motherhood
Today is Mother’s Day – the day we think of the blessings of motherhood. In reflecting on this day, I’m reminded of inspiring women who had messed-up experiences in motherhood. Many biblical women...
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The Power of Hope and Compassion: Let’s Git-R-Done
This week has been crazy. We’re getting ready for graduation and open house next weekend. The second time around isn’t so bad, but it’s a great reason to get things done around the house that need to...
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Between A Rock and Hard Place {Or A Buggy and A Pig}
I live in the middle of the third largest Amish community in the United States. Driving in our area requires a certain level of acquired proficiency. Slow-moving horse and buggies are plentiful, and...
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Facing Insecurities: Why I Don’t Look In The Mirror
It’s summer time here on the Back Forty. With summertime comes natural beauty, fresh fruits and veggies from our garden. With the changing of the seasons come the changing of life’s seasons, too. Years...
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Be Still And Know
Filed under: Encouragement, Faith Tagged: encouragement, Faith, grace, hope
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