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No Kindness Wasted
I saw the brake lights in the middle of the busy road and wondered what could be happening at this time of the morning. A few seconds later, I saw the problem scamper across the four-lane road: a tiny white dog in a purple dress. Then I saw a woman trying to corral the lively…
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Greater in 2013
Toward the end of 2012, I was asking God all sorts of questions about where we had been. I thought that I had listened to him. I thought that I had been following him. But at the end of the year, nothing looked the way I thought it should. Is this really going to be…
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The Truth about my Dark Side
The other morning I was on the treadmill shuffling through songs on my iPod. In Kelly Clarkson’s “Darkside,” she sings, “There’s a place I know; it’s not pretty there and few have ever gone. If I show it to you now, will it make you run away? Will you stay even if it hurts? Even…
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Free Advice Friday: How do you keep the Sabbath?
At lunch the other day my friend said she had been thinking a lot about the Sabbath. It is one of the Ten Commandments, but we don’t seem nearly as concerned about keeping it as the other big ones, like lying, stealing, and adultery. But apparently it’s on “The List” and God must think it’s…
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ONLINE Bible study for the New Year
Last fall over 40 women attended From Ice Queen to Princess ONLINE. We had a great time getting to know each other and sharing what God was teaching us. So we are going to try this great experiment again! We start next Sunday, January 13 and will end March 17. That’s 10 weeks to becoming…
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Glorious Impossible 2012
I write about this every year because it is such a good reminder to me of God’s faithfulness to me. The “Glorious Impossible” comes from a worship song by Carl Cartee we sing at church during the season. It causes me reflect on all the “impossible” things that God made possible for His glory in the Christmas story. …
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Free Advice Friday: What’s the Biblical definition of self-love?
This question came via text this week. Often the basis of this question is the teaching on the passage that we must love others as we love ourselves. I have heard it taught that you can’t love other people until you love yourself. I think that we have to able to receive love before we…
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Hope Restored
One of my words for December this year is “hope.” I’ve been reminiscing about 6 years ago in November when we found out we were having our first girl. All through the pregnancy, I had been hoping it would be a girl. We had two boys and I thought it would be perfect to have…
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Free Advice Friday: I feel guilty when I work because I’m putting my baby on the back burner.
I was talking with a young mom this past week, and I asked her how her part-time job was going. She said it was going well and that she enjoyed it, but that she felt guilty when she had to put her baby “on the back burner” to do her job. This was what I…
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Free Advice Friday: I used to feel like a Princess, but now I don’t. How do I get back?
I had two conversations with women this week who talked about how their time with the Lord has changed drastically. Because of family, jobs and simply stage of life, things have changed. In the past, they used to be able to have long quiet times with the Lord and lots of time to study the…
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