by Stacey Thacker | Mar 26, 2022 | Connect, Encourage, Grow, Hebrews, Lent, Wholehearted, writeitgirl, Writing
This week God has shown me what has been taking up a large piece of real estate in my heart. It is something that is quite at home there. I have even been known to encourage it, feed it, and give it more credit than it deserves. It is fear. The sad part is, that it is...
by Stacey Thacker | Mar 19, 2022 | Blogging, Connect, Encourage, Grow, Lent, Wholehearted, writeitgirl, Writing
“Every heart-stabbing poem, every story of rescue, every novel that evokes longings, every reading of Tolkien and Wendell Berry and John Donne and a thousand others who make the tears flow—all are an echo of the love behind all of human history. This love is the...
by Stacey Thacker | Mar 12, 2022 | Blogging, Connect, Encourage, Grow, Lent, Wholehearted, writeitgirl, Writing |
Wholehearted Lent (Week 2) I saw a question this week on Social Media that made me stop and think. It said, *”How has giving up your lesser love this lenten season practically changed your week?” First of all, compared to Jesus, everything should be a...
by Stacey Thacker | Mar 5, 2022 | Blogging, Connect, Encourage, Lent, Wholehearted, writeitgirl, Writing |
Tradition has a way of forming us. I didn’t come from a tradition that focused on or even defined Lent. Growing up, I remember our neighbors coming home on Ash Wednesday with crosses on their foreheads and wondering what that meant. These same neighbors went to...
by Stacey Thacker | Feb 26, 2022 | Connect, Encourage, Wholehearted, writeitgirl, Writing
Recently I found myself sitting in a meeting unsure of what to expect. I had been nervous for the weeks leading up to the meeting because I honestly had no idea what was on the agenda. And so, I did what any normal person would do. I thought through several different...
by Stacey Thacker | Feb 23, 2022 | Connect, Encourage, endurance, Fresh Out of Amazing |
Note: Originally posted April 24, 2017. You can also find a slightly longer version in Threadbare Prayer on pages 151-155. __________________________ My youngest daughter dropped my iPad just before I hurried out the door to go to church. With huge tears streaming...
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