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Aug 22, 20211 min read

A Mama Never Stops Giving Pep-Talks

There’s never an end to the amount of pep talks a mama gives to her children. Never an end to her questioning of whether she said...

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Aug 18, 20211 min read

A Mama Tries So Hard Not to Blink...

A mama tries so hard not to blink. A mama tries so hard not to blink, because she knows just exactly what that blink means... …just a...

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Jun 17, 20211 min read

There's just something about a grandma's hug...

There's just something about a grandma's hug. Something that makes you want to unbuckle your seat belt and run back into her house, for...

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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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Jun 4, 20212 min read

She's worth the bowl of mac and cheese...

She's worth the bowl of mac-and-cheese. That's what he taught me last night. It was already past bedtime, and we had chosen to grill out...

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Apr 26, 20211 min read

God's Mighty Little Girl

There is this little girl. A little girl God designed to be so incredibly one-of-a-kind that the world would never fit her into its mold....

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Apr 10, 20212 min read

Motherhood is Meeting God

Sweet mama, as motherhood is bestowed upon us, one beautiful, unexpected way or another, we unexpectedly find ourselves in the thick of...

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Apr 8, 20213 min read

The Holding One

She had been crying for what seemed like 30 minutes. So much so, she was completely inconsolable. As she melted into my lap, I was...