On Relationships
From waiting seasons, to painful seasons. All aspects of faith can be encountered here.
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The Sunday Morning Crowd: Finding God in the Everyday
God, it seems, is easier to find when we are ushered right to Him through liturgy, worship music and a prepared sermon. The days we find ourselves not in a pew but in a computer chair, bible open and coffee steaming in the low light, His presence feels dulled, or, more accurately, our sense of His presence is dulled.
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Overcoming Perfectionism: 4 Tools to Rediscover Your Worth
Her normally even emotions begin to simmer underneath her exterior. She knows the work she’s doing is good. She knows being a thoughtful hostess to her guests, to Jesus the Messiah, no less, is certainly a worthy endeavor.
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Follow Where He Leads: Letting God turn our pain into trust
Have you ever run into someone at a store or walking your dog on the running track through your city and left the conversation in awe that God led you to each other in that moment? Well, I had a similar feeling a couple of weeks ago. Leaving our son’s room after putting him down to sleep, I tiptoed down…
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4 Ways to Ditch People-Pleasing When You Have Overnight Guests
After a year of marriage, my husband, Ryan, and I made the hard decision to move away from our family, friends, and all that is familiar to a new city we’d never visited. We packed our belongings and suitcases full of shoes, clothes, and hope that this new city would love us as well as the one we called home…
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Wear the Nice Shoes: How to find joy in the everyday
I have waited a full year, almost to the day, for my normal life to resume since we all locked our doors hoping to flatten the curve. This year was a struggle between waiting to pick up where we left off under normal circumstances and a dawning realization that time does not stop. For many people the passage of these…
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When Friends Overstep Our Boundaries: Set and enforce boundaries
The Disney movie Moana is one where the music drifts through my mind for days after watching it. After one such episode, I played the music from my phone as I cooked dinner, singing along, as we all do. This particular time, a scene from the movie stuck with me over a few days. I just kept coming back to…
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Valentine’s Day Disappoinments
Valentine’s Day celebrations were never my favorite thing. They always left me more disappointed than full of the honey-glow of love. That’s because it’s hard to manufacture a Hollywood perfect romance without the help of a camera crew, lighting, and lots of editing. Valentine’s Day, in particular, always left a little to be desired by the end of the day.…