Welcome back to Part 2 of the post (here is the first post). We ended the post with the setting of the story of the Loaves and Fishes feeding the 5,000. To recap, the disciples saw the need the people had to eat and declared that Jesus needed to send them away elsewhere so that they could get some food…
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Take Your Eyes Off of Yourself to See the Glory of the Lord, Part 1
Blogging is a difficult journey for me. I have known my call to write for years, yet have had a long time of uncertainty, fear, and very present inadequacy within myself. But still, He has continued to provoke my soul and stir my spirit to write. Today as I spent my time in the Word, I was reading Luke 9…
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25 Scriptures to Encourage the Weary Mom
I’ve been a weary mom before, for very long seasons that seemed to drag out before my eyes. My little ones did not sleep through the night. My young ones did not want to obey. My pre-teens knew everything, and I was just mom. Yeah, weariness stinks, and in the midst of those moments it feels like everyone else has everything together,…
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Are You Using Your Tongue to Speak Life, or Death?
I have had a long journey in learning to speak life, rather than criticize, condemn, and manipulate others with my words. I did not grow up with an understanding of boundaries, nor respect for the perspectives and limits of myself or others. But, the Lord is faithful to redeem. And, redeem He surely does! “The tongue has the power of…
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When I Embraced Boundaries, I became the Mom I Always Wanted to Be
It’s hard to remember my life before kids. I mean, I met my husband when I was 19, and we got married 8 months later. Then a year after that became pregnant with our first child, which basically continued on for the next 13 years. Now, here we are 14 years into marriage, 7 kids in our world, and a…
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How Vision Helped to Transform a Difficult Child
I remember the day it happened. The day I realized that this little girl of mine, this spit-fire, was a whole other thing entirely and that I had no idea what I was doing. She had just recently turned three, and I had a three-month-old baby plus a toddler. It was a packed life.We were standing outside on the back…
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