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I Am Not My Unmade Bed: Making Peace with a Messy Bed
The mess will still be there when your kids are grown. Right now I'm spending this precious time with my son, not keeping an immaculate house
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Transitions and Getting Back to Work After a Break
But like most Monday mornings I find myself doing more meandering and less work, more feeling lost and less living in my purpose. Perhaps my time away awakened more within me than I realized. Maybe work is not the thing that defines me, rather it is the expression of a work happening in me.
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Finding Balance During the Busy Holiday Season by Gena McCown
Most of us would consider ourselves pretty busy. We manage to balance our homes, families, and putting aside time for a little self-care. Then, the holiday season rolls in and everything goes awry. The pressure at work builds up, end-of-year deadlines approach, kids’ activities and events, work holiday parties to attend, extended family obligations, friends’ holiday gatherings, gift shopping, cookie…
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Everyday rhythms and hearing God
A few months ago, closer to the beginning of the quarantine, Ryan challenged me to 50 books this year. That’s right, 50. Around the same time he extended this challenge to me, I made a list of all the books I’ve collected over the years but never read, and oh boy, was it a longer list than I thought it…
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Forcing my schedule leads to frustration
I start my days early, many of them before the sun even blinks its eyes open for the day. Before a few weeks ago this was because my sweet boy would cry in the night, needing me, and I would drag my weary feet from bed to oblige him. As the months have passed and I felt the push and…
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A slow rhythm to hear your soul
I don’t have much personal experience with this being unemployed for the better part of two years now, but I’ve watched my husband Ryan rush off to work every morning for two years until the quarantine hit. The day begins with a loud, unfriendly sounding alarm kicking us out from under warm blankets to stumble around in the dark. A…
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4 Rhythms to Help You See Jesus
Rhythms merely create a pathway for us to see God’s hand at work in our lives and make it possible for us to recognize Jesus as we walk through the small moments.