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Being OK with Where You Are {chapter 1}

Remember last summer how we wrote a book together? Well, I wrote and  you showed up each week to read, comment, and hold me accountable. You were awesome by the way. The book came out last September (2013). I thought it would be a good idea to re-post the original 10...

When A Mom Goes Home, She Goes to the Mission Field

"The heart of motherhood never stops beating" - September McCarthy, Raising Generations Today, Hope 2014 I watched them come through the door carrying their notebooks and tote bags filled with expectations and snacks. Some sat in chairs, others grabbed a seat on the...

When The View from Where You Sit is Rather Grey

"The view from where I sit is rather grey." - Elizabeth Bennet Pride and Prejudice (the movie, the new one, not the old one)  Grief is a strange thing. For some strange reason it keeps coming back to me in images of water. Initially, I felt like I was in an ocean of...

When You Need to Arise and Go #livethankful

Have you ever said yes to something and not known why in the world God wanted you to? Have you thrown up your hands in desperation and cried a tear or two because why does He bother with you in anyway? But you arise and  you go, and in the going you see how He knew...

An Ocean of Grief

Every Christmas my dad would sit in the same hard back chair in our living room and watch the girls open their gifts. For the past 4 years this little one has been in his lap. This was the only picture I took of him this year, other than the mandatory family photo...

Off to Raising Generations Today Conference

    Today, I'm headed to New York to join 300 moms for the Raising Generations Today conference. Brooke and I are speaking on "When You need HOPE Now" twice on Saturday. I'm excited and nervous. I so would appreciate your prayers as we travel and gather. God...

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