Category: Powerful Words
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Jesus and Grit
Crisis and grief change your brain. I’ve studied, taken classes, and read many books and articles about trauma and how it affects the brain. What I wasn’t expecting was how it would impact me in ways that hadn’t occurred before. Somehow I was blinded that it was occurring to me. When crisis came and grief…
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In the Losing
When life is heavy and my heart is thick with pain what will I find? Can I explore a part of your heart, God, that I’ve never known in triumph? When I find myself being consumed with heartbreak where the pain at first invades any longings and hopes of what we thought would be…Can I…
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Quiet Waters
Staring at a tsunami, awaiting its violent collision. Somewhere between a deep breath and a teardrop the massive wall of water stopped right in front of me. Instead of being overtaken, peace even in the waters settled as what was intended to destroy me became a mysterious beautiful wall. The waters are calm and quiet…
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My Vegetable Garden. His Heart
This is our vegetable garden! God continues to speak abundance over me this year. My overfilled, crazy, messy garden reminds me of what He has promised me this year. This year has been painful in so many ways. I realize that some things must die in order for resurrection to occur. But this is so…
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Makeup Free and Confident
I was having a conversation with a precious girl who through tears said that she wasn’t beautiful without makeup. No amount of words telling her how beautiful she was penetrated the lies she believed that she was fat and ugly without the perfect mascara tipped lashes and “skinny” looking outfit. It broke me. So, it’s…
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The Art Of Not Having It All Together
How many of us struggle with the thought that we need to have it all together ALL of the time? ✋🏻 I am guilty of beating myself up and feeling like I need to repent of some unknown sin… am I the only one that feels I must somehow measure success by a religious checklist?…
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Sticky Words
There is so much power in our words. The way we talk to others, about others and even about ourselves will often reveal the truth in our hearts. The words we speak can bless or curse our lives and those in it. Words stick to us. Words will dig deep into our souls. If it…
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To Know
It can be easy to get caught up in life and feel the need to know everything. Somehow we tend to elevate ourselves on dangerously higher pedestals within our own minds to meet these grand expectations of knowing how to live life without flaw. At least for me personally I have had to ask the…
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Praise
I have been silent for longer than I intended. Words, so many words have tumbled through my mind like clothes in a dryer. Too many words have remained stuck inside. Pain deep in my gut for people I love; my friends, my family and my country. At times even pain over things within myself has…
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Your Suffering Is Over
“You’re suffering is over” (Mark 5:34 NLT) What would you do to hear those words? That phrase stood out to me during my daily Bible reading. It penetrated my soul. None of us are immune to pain and suffering. Most of us would have a story to tell. Many of us hide the pain and…
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