Category: happiness
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Before I start, I’d like to give a quick shout-out to my handsome husband, who purchased the Spiral Bible for me for Christmas. I’m a note-taking girly, and I put this particular version on my wish list, in hopes that I would engage with the Word like it is something to study. And his gift…
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I’ll be honest with you. I didn’t get a lot of sleep Sunday night. On Sunday morning, I woke up and my family and I went to church. Then we went to lunch, where something occurred that kind of creamed my corn. Then a movie. Then we came home and I did what I like…
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Born on a full moon, Raspberry made her grand appearance already exhausted and mildly inconvenienced. Witnesses say she emerged already carrying responsibilities, unresolved infant insight, and a to-do list. By age seven, she had mastered the ancient arts of overthinking, reading a room instantly, and apologizing for things that were not her fault. As she…
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There are certain people in Scripture I admire. Leah. Hannah. Stephen. Jeremiah. Joseph. And there are others I recognize. Not because our lives are seamlessly identical. But because something in those kinds of stories feel painfully familiar. I can relate to the woman at the well in more ways than one. When Jesus meets her…
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I used to think that growth required additions. More peace.More discipline.More blessings.More clarity.More friends.More love.More kindness. And sometimes it does. But lately, God has been undoing some things. Undoing. Not punishment. Not abandonment. But subtraction. Slowly unraveling things in me that were never meant to stay. Undoing…subtraction…it doesn’t feel good. It feels like loss, more…
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I used to stay busy. Not always “productive,” but occupied. Distracted. Entertained. Emotionally entangled. Anything that kept me from being alone with my thoughts. And because so much of my distractions had a purpose – work, travel, etc. – I didn’t have to face that the fact that it was avoidance. I just called it…
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There was a time when I only thought of God working through blessings. Open doors. Answered prayers.Unexpected favor.Fresh starts. As long as I had buttoned myself up enough to call upon Him. As long as what I was asking for “felt” Christian. Those moments are easy to recognize. But life has taught me something deeper.…
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Love looks different in every season. And there were seasons in my life when love was louder. Big emotions.Big efforts.Big attempts to fix everything. But right now, love in my life is quieter. It’s less dramatic and more consistent. Nothing I’m doing right now is flashy. It’s not dramatic. But it’s daily. It’s in the…
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I want to write today about something that has been racking my brain for the last several months. There is a belief that many people hold that is basically generalized as follows: If someone repeats the same mistake often enough, that mistake becomes their character. I can understand why people think that. Patterns matter. Repeated…
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There are parts of my story I can change. The way I live now.The choices I make today.The direction I’m headed. Those things are still in motion. But there are other parts that are fixed. Already written. Already lived. And no amount of wishing, regretting, explaining, or replaying can make them different. But I can…
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