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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 22, 20212 min read
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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 20, 20212 min read
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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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Nov 15, 20213 min read
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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 26, 20213 min read
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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 24, 20213 min read
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A Mama's Heart is Always With Her Children
Every time a mama watches her child walk away, she feels a piece of her heart walk away too; and wherever a mama's babies go, a piece of...

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Aug 8, 20212 min read
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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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Aug 5, 20212 min read
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Sometimes, being a mama means taking a lifeboat ride on the ever-giving waves of God's grace...
Sometimes, being a mama means not wanting to do one more thing. It means passing up a sink full of dishes, over and over, and over...

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Aug 3, 20211 min read
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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 26, 20212 min read
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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 4, 20212 min read
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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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Jul 1, 20212 min read
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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 29, 20213 min read
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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 26, 20212 min read
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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 17, 20211 min read
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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 6, 20211 min read
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Love Beyond-Extraordinary
I didn’t get to sleep in. My little five-AM wake-up call doesn’t have a snooze button. I didn’t have a day without arguing or tears....

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May 10, 20212 min read
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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 26, 20211 min read
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Finding God' Voice
Sometimes, it can feel almost impossible. To find it. To seek it. To discern it. To listen to it. God's sweet, encouraging voice......

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Apr 20, 20212 min read
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A Mother Never Stops Battling
There’s simply never an end to how many times a mother lines up to go to battle for her babies. Day in. And day out. Never an end to the...

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Apr 17, 20211 min read
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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...

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Apr 8, 20213 min read
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