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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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easpenner
- Nov 20, 2021
- 2 min
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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easpenner
- Nov 15, 2021
- 3 min
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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easpenner
- Aug 26, 2021
- 3 min
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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easpenner
- Aug 24, 2021
- 3 min
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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easpenner
- Aug 8, 2021
- 2 min
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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easpenner
- Aug 5, 2021
- 2 min
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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easpenner
- Aug 3, 2021
- 1 min
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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easpenner
- Jul 26, 2021
- 2 min
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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easpenner
- Jul 4, 2021
- 2 min
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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easpenner
- Jul 1, 2021
- 2 min
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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easpenner
- Jun 29, 2021
- 3 min
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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easpenner
- Jun 26, 2021
- 2 min
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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easpenner
- Jun 17, 2021
- 1 min
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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easpenner
- Jun 6, 2021
- 1 min
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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easpenner
- May 10, 2021
- 2 min
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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easpenner
- Apr 26, 2021
- 1 min
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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easpenner
- Apr 20, 2021
- 2 min
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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easpenner
- Apr 17, 2021
- 1 min
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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easpenner
- Apr 8, 2021
- 3 min
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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