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Heart Somersaults
I saw my paint brushes drying next to my coffee station the other day and felt pure joy! The simple things in life have given my heart somersaults. The recent months have brought about extreme changes. There is a stretching period where life attempts to find a balance. Laughter has filled silent halls, bouncing from…
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Will You Listen?
I have a story to tell but I am sworn to silence. I want to tell you of heaven and hell and how I’ve experienced both. I have a story to tell. I am told to lie and that I am to blame. I experience heartbreak after heartbreak as my voice gets thrown under the…
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Choose Love. Choose Joy.
It is a beautiful sight to see someone stand in truth even when others believe the lies. It is a beautiful thing to witness grace extended when one could choose to join the hate bashing. It is exhilarating to experience a heart becoming transformed in an instant when God reveals his perspective of someone so…
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Thankful
For anyone who has lost someone close, you understand that the holidays are bittersweet. Making new memories can come easy some days. Other days, the grief comes in another wave. Memories from previous holidays come flooding back. The hole that person left in your heart feels like it expands in that moment. During the first year without…
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The Journey I Started One Year Ago
WordPress just announced to me that it is my one-year anniversary since starting to blog on their site. As I reflect on the year where I decided to not allow silence to dictate my life, and instead use the gift of writing God has given me, I see how silence would have been deadly. The…
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When Everything Changes
With Jesus, it does not matter what is going on. All that matters is that he is there with you. I am so thankful that he does not leave us. He chooses us every single day. Life is so beautiful with him! For the past year or more I have been struggling with what family looks…
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The Encouragers
It is an amazing feeling to walk out of discouragement into encouragement! When I began this blog I was determined to be as open about the grieving process that I was going through. It has been healing for me. I wanted to help others through my honesty. I wanted to send a…
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The Calm And The Sunshine
I have to admit that I was in rebellion against my own process of working through grieving since I last wrote. Each time I would start to write I just felt a little frustrated that I was struggling the way that I was. Instead of writing I chose to pack or unpack. This transition in…
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When Two Worlds Collided
Two worlds collided over Memorial Day weekend. It was a weekend that was full of many different emotions: heartache, pain, sorrow, yet full of joy for our Father. It is so hard to describe exactly every little feeling. It all felt so surreal. It is most difficult to process two worlds that do not…
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3 weeks ago… A Thankful Heart
So much has happened within the past several weeks. I am just now getting to a place where I can actually sit down and write something other than, “hey guys, a little busy here!” There are so many thoughts going through my mind right now as I think back over these past weeks. I…
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