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As a life plan advisor at a retirement community, I’m part of a marketing team whose office is about 100 yards from administration. That means a lot of back and forth when I’m busy, so my ste...

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Recently, I decided to get a personal trainer and commit to exercising regularly. The pandemic had hit me hard. I am an emotional eater so I’d had a lot of splurge nights. All of it had left me...

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A few weeks ago (Thanksgiving week, to be exact), I wrote a few thoughts on Instagram before heading to bed. I hit publish, sending it to Facebook too, plugged my phone in, and picked up my night...

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The seat belt light illuminated, and I could barely hear the pilot’s voice, muddled by the aircraft audio speaker system. He requested that we remain seated and buckle our seatbelts and that we...

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I love autumn. Summer is so bright and intense, I wake up feeling obligated to go somewhere and do something.  People are always asking, “What are your plans for the summer?” There is press...

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Sing the praises of the Lord, you his faithful people; praise his holy name. For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes...

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Bored. Unmotivated. Apathetic. Tired. Fearful. Hopeless. Sound familiar? I don’t where this season came from. But it is here in full effect. I was Voxing with a friend recently, and I told her ...

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The conditions may not have been ideal for a race. Gray, overcast skies. Muddy, slippery trail. Of course, the elements rarely deter trail runners. They show up rain or shine for the pure adventu...

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This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 1 John 3:16 (NIV) I haven’t watched a full broadcast o...

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My second child is a little girl, and I joke that she has been strong-willed and stubborn from her earliest days in my womb. I was incredibly sick during that pregnancy, throwing up sometimes six...

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Taste and see that the Lord is good. How happy is the person who takes refuge in him! Psalm 34:8 (CSB) I’ve been looking for goodness — for that which is sweet, good for the soul, joyful a...

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If you were to ask me about my favorite time of year, in a heartbeat I would tell you it was fall. It’s true and I know it and I can tell you all the reasons why. But ask me to narrow it down, ...

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I wonder how many times we miss out on something special because we don’t listen to that nudge in our spirits urging us to do something that seems crazy or awkward. Do you know what I’m talki...

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Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food. And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, ...

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Mothering usually doesn’t look like we thought it would. It doesn’t look like it does in the movies or TV shows. Or most of our Instagram feeds. Or our friends’ lives. Or any version of wh...

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We have a picture with words of Scripture that hangs next to my front door, because isn’t it always God’s Word we need right in our faces before we walk out the door? But it falls down a hund...

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