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One of the advantages of age is that you’ve actually experienced life and learned a few things. “You Learn By Living” as Eleanor Roosevelt would say, and it’s true. So many of our misconceptions are corrected by simply living. I was thinking about some of …
What rock-solid truth do you need to successfully navigate each season of life? Many of you know that I’ve recently become a grandmother, entering a new and wonderful season of life. We’re also getting ready to celebrate Matthew’s marriage to Lydia this fall, and preparing …
Friends, We’ve been talking quite a bit about hospitality here on the blog and on Instagram Stories. If you’ve read here for any amount of time, you know that I believe that hospitality is one of the most underutilized tools in our gospel toolbox. We …
Sometimes we make spiritual growth harder than it needs to be, am I right? As believers in Christ, we know that in order to thrive we need to be walking in the Spirit, but too often we get stuck in ruts. We believe that DOING …
As we ushered in 2019, I chose the word “Truth” as my word of the year here on the blog. Truth defined is that which is in accordance with fact or reality; it’s sincerity in action, character, and utterance. I shared in January, that not …
Several years ago, I was struggling with one of those mother of teenager issues that seemed to leave me deflated and drained. Nothing earth shattering, but frustrating and completely unexpected. I mentioned my struggle to a group of friends, and we agreed that there wasn’t …
Ps. 136:26 “Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.” What would your life look like if you lived fully in the love of God? How would God’s love change your life, your work, and your friendships? When we know …
I’ve always had great admiration for Elisabeth Elliot. To this day, I’m drawn to her writings, her faith, her no-nonsense approach to life. I was only vaguely familiar with her husband Jim, the missionary to the Quichua Indians who was martyred by the Auca Indians …
Word, words, words. They can be oh so lovely, or devastatingly unrecoverable. We communicate with what we say and don’t say; write and don’t write. We can communicate disdain with a sideglance. Our kids know our “don’t you dare” mom-glare. We can communicate absolute adoration …
We’re covering the topic of hospitality and so far we’ve covered the pre-hospitality heart check, what hospitality is and isn’t, Biblical examples of extending hospitality when personal circumstances are less than perfect (poverty, infertility, tough marriage, sickness). Today I want to share a readiness checklist for overnight …