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Learning to Let Go: A Potty-Training Tale
By the end of the first week, I felt defeated by this now useless Mickey Mouse toddler potty that taunted me each time I used the restroom.
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Wood and Stone: How Christmas Expectations Never Live Up to The Hype
Infused with a dose of Christmas magic, we try to recreate the conditions with the same traditions, homemade caramel popcorn, and classic Christmas movies (It’s A Wonderful Life or White Christmas, anyone?)
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Not Like We Pictured by Robyn Chapman
Friends we’ve almost made it through what has undoubtedly been one of the strangest years that most of us will ever experience. Personally, 2019 was a hard year for me that included the death of my second parent. I was looking forward to 2020. In hindsight, it was not what I pictured. Not even a little. I’ve been pondering how…
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Lamenting the year and recognizing our blessings
2020 looked nothing like I wanted it to after welcoming our first baby. I pictured the church nursery, learning how to get us all up and ready in time to be somewhere, meeting with our other parent-friends, and living our lives with our son in tow. I pictured having lunch or coffee out in open spaces. I pictured having people…
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Loving Deeply through our Gifts
When we give from a place of genuine generosity to the people in our life as a representation of how much we love, value, and cherish them, our focus is on showing those people how we feel, not on how good we look in the process.
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The Power of Unmet Expectations
The strength I thought was getting me through the upheavals was actually crushing, little by little, my dependence on and trust in the Lord.
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The Days of Small Things
I believe the slow work of God doesn’t stop because our circumstances change or because I don’t understand how this twisted mess my life seems to look like fits into the plan I envisioned God had for me.