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The Beauty of Rest in Our Motherhood
It shouldn’t be like this, you know? This continuous feeling of being steamrolled by our own motherhood. Sheer exhaustion. Day in. And...
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Nov 20, 20212 min read
Broken Hallelujah
I can't ever get through this song without tears. Without goosebumps. Without imagining every word. Without wanting to fall straight to...
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Nov 17, 20212 min read
God's Sweet, Amazing Grace
Five cups of hot chocolate and a Netflix Christmas movie. That's how Friday night ended. That's not how, however, how Friday night...
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Nov 15, 20213 min read
Sometimes, God lets you break...
Sometimes, God has to let us break to piece us back together again. Sometimes, God has to allow our layers to peel back, exposing our...
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Oct 11, 20213 min read
Motherhood is Too Beautiful Even for Satan
I want to let you in on a little secret, sweet mamas. Satan will never stop trying. He will never, ever stop trying to destroy your...
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Aug 26, 20213 min read
Our Children Always Deserve Our Grace
This was the scene last night of a mighty, mighty battle… …a little boy taking on the world with his strong will and terrible threes… …a...
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Aug 24, 20213 min read
Beauty From Ashes in a Broken World
We can end this tireless tirade the enemy has sweeping the world right now, you know? We have this incredible ability to stop it...
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Aug 5, 20212 min read
They'll always remember a mama who digs into life with them...
"I think they'd really like it if you got into the lake with them today," my husband whispered. I knew he was right. But, I had become a...
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Jul 26, 20212 min read
I went to church on the water...
I went to church on the water last week. Not in a church pew. Not singing hymns. Or with a Bible in my lap. Rather, I found God under the...
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Jul 8, 20212 min read
What if this is the year God set the world afire in His name?
God knew about this past year, you know? He already knew. He knew it was coming. What if this is the year He has been waiting for, as the...
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Jul 4, 20212 min read
The Bittersweet Beauty of Surrender
If you’ve ever had a relapse with your anxiety, you just know. You know the wave of exhaustion. You know the unshakable fear. You know...
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Jul 1, 20212 min read
You don't need a spotlight to hold God's attention...
Some of us will never make it big. Some of us will never have anything go viral. Some of us may never be truly known by more than a few....
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Jun 29, 20213 min read
The Golden Moments
There are these moments. You know the ones. The ones that bring us to our knees. Shake us to our absolute core. Causing us to come...
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Jun 26, 20212 min read
Motherhood is Humbling Yourself in God's Name
Within 28 hours of this photo being taken... I watched my baby have an asthma attack. I walked into the ER just before 2:00 AM. I caught...
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Jun 23, 20213 min read
The Worthy Ministry of Stay-at-Home Mamas
"When did being 'just' a stay-at-home mom become not enough?" I can’t remember the exact context of the conversation. But his words...
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Jun 15, 20212 min read
Dear Dads, You Set the Standard for Your Daughter
“I don’t deserve this, Mommy and Daddy,” she whispered. Just loud enough to compensate for the sizzle of the boiling pasta water and...
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Jun 6, 20211 min read
A Prayer for My Daughter
Dear Daughter, I pray the world never gets so loud that you can no longer find God's voice. My prayer is never that you win every race;...
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May 25, 20212 min read
Your Worth, In Him
“You won’t find it in there,” He sternly nudged. “You never will. What you are looking for cannot be found in your phone. In social...
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May 21, 20212 min read
To the Homeschooling Mama: the Quiet, Unsung Hero
I never thought I’d be a homeschooling mom. For twelve years, I got up and was ready to be out the door and in a classroom as an...
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May 19, 20212 min read
God Meets Mothers
Have you ever stopped to think about just how often God meets mothers? For, mothers? Their to-do lists never end. Their minds never stop...
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