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Autism Speaks: A Beautiful Reminder Part 2 {finding Joy in the midst of Despair}

In Bill’s last entry, he presented an overview of his ongoing recovery from Asperger’s Syndrome and how he overcame that to become an occupational therapist. This time, he talks in detail about a key...

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Obedience With A Cost

Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has brought trouble upon this people, and You have not rescued Your people at all. – Exodus 5:23 Have you ever felt like you have been obedient...

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Waiting For My One True Love

I  am not a patient person. I want to know it all. And, I want to know it NOW! I am the girl who flips to the end of the romance book to see if they end up together. A die hard romantic. I just can’t...

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Waiting to Exhale: Forgiveness = Freedom

Hurt people hurt people We’ve all heard it said a million times. I’ve said it a million times. It’s true, hurt people do hurt people. However, not all hurt people hurt people. The cycle can be broken....

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The Day We Fight Back {Unleashing the Warrior Chic}

As I held out my hands to her, I could see the grip of fear in her eyes. I was asking her to do something she’d never done before. To go to a place she’d never been. To leave her safe place that...

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Overcoming

It happened. We got “the call” about our daughter serving overseas. She got sick. And not just sick. The go-to-the-hospital-kind-of-sick. There’s one thing you’ll notice about our family: When...

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When Things Don’t Go As Planned

Sometimes things don’t go as planned. T’s crossed. I’s dotted. You even prayed about it and was sure things were going your way. There was peace. There was joy. And then the door slammed shut. Hard....

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Reclaiming Eve: The Identity and Calling of Women in the Kingdom of God

I had the privilege of reading Reclaiming Eve:The Identity and Calling of Women in the Kingdom of God. Visit HERE to get your copy, today! To be invited in the blog tour was a blessing, but it was...

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Gaining Intimacy With GOD

I love the sermon we had at church this Sunday. I was so inspired because I passionately crave closeness with my Lord. I love slow dancing through my life with Him. I deeply long for intimacy with...

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The Real Deal

We have an expression that says, “She’s the real deal.” What we mean when saying this is the person is really who they are appearing to be. They aren’t trying to convince you that they’re someone...

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Just drop it already…..

I knew I was carrying too much. Trying to save a few steps, I loaded my arms up with too much – and the crash to the ground confirmed it.  In life, too, we carry too much – things not meant for us to...

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Resting in His Finished Work

In Psalm 23:2 when David says, “He makes me to lie down in green pastures”—he’s saying, “My shepherd makes me lie down in His finished work.” With His own pierced hands, Jesus created a pasture for...

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Trust Issues

A Facebook friend shared this picture, and I just had to share it with you. It’s easy for us look at this picture and think how silly it is for her to hold on when we see that He has something better...

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You Are The Blessing

The Lord was with Joseph and he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. When his master saw that The Lord was with him and that The Lord gave him success in everything he did,...

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Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda Versus Me

My unresolved guilt festered for nearly a decade. When we began attending a church populated by a number of adoptive and foster families, I wondered if God had hit the family reset button for us. The...

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Family of Jesus

Like the family of Jesus, you are not forgotten. He has plans and a purpose for your life. He looks your way. -Karen Kingsbury Filed under: Bible Study, encouragement, GOD, Inspirational, Jesus, Launch...

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With God on our side like this, how can we lose?

So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by...

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More Than Conquerors

…In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor...

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Since You are God’s idea, you are a GOOD idea

God planned and packed you on purpose for His purpose. Heaven’s custom design. At a moment before moments existed, the sovereign Star Maker resolved, “I will make _____________.” Your name goes in the...

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You Are Blessed

> We all go through things in our lives. Everyone does. We feel lost, at the end if our rope, discontented, persecuted, lied to, lied about, etc. It’s how we handle these situations that makes the...

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