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Lessons from the Wasteland: Follow me.
The first steps into the wilderness were timid and terrifying. Looking back over her shoulder, she watched the peaceful meadow evaporate into mist. Her old life was gone, and she couldn’t go back. Into the dry desert ground she stepped. The sand swirled around her, and she couldn’t see anything up ahead. She wondered where…
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Online Bible Study Introduction
http://youtu.be/da8J4KzeB_Q This is in the introduction video for my Online Bible Study From Ice Queen to Princess. It officially starts THIS Sunday, so there is still time to sign up. You can click on the link to sign up. This is my first try at this so please give grace:) The goal to have a…
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I see you
I see you standing in the doorway. I know you are thinking about coming in, but for many reasons, you have not. You see a room full of women sitting at tables and laughing and having fun, but you doubt whether you could ever be one of them. Once they found out who you really…
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Online Bible Study
I’m so excited to offer From Ice Queen to Princess as an online Bible study this fall! For the past two years I have been writing a study of the book of Galatians that looks at how the gospel transforms us from Ice Queens and Orphans into Princesses. I’ve found that as women we often…
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A Summer Survived
This morning everyone was out of the house by 8:15 a.m. School has started and we survived the summer. Some of you may remember a blog early in the summer about all my summer ideas. I thought, for the sake of honesty, that I would tell you how it went. We all have seem-to-be-somethings that…
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Olympic Commentator, Judge, or Athlete?
When the Olympics come on TV, they are very inspiring, but they also get into my head. I’ve noticed that after two weeks of listening to the commentators talk abut the athletes, I start commentating everything in my head. “Now in order for this to go her way, Joy’s timing has to be perfect. Here…
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The Wall and the Window
She stands at the wall and sees no way around it, through it or over it. The wall stretches for miles in both directions and towers above her head. There is a small window in the wall, and when she stands on her tip toes, she can see all the way through to the other…
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Why I won’t be going to see Batman
The tragedy of what happened in Colorado last week was a sobering wake-up call to me. I don’t think I will be going. Not because I’m afraid. Not because of the swearing and other not-so-pure images in the movie. Not because I don’t like “those kind” of movies. In fact, I have seen a lot…
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Three Final Warnings – Purpose Part 6
Finding your purpose sounds like a really great thing. But I have to warn you that it is not smooth sailing. You don’t punch it into the GPS of your life and have clear direction at every turn, advance warnings of detours, and safe arrival at exactly the time predicted. In this sixth blog on…
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So how do I know? – Purpose Part 5
Last year I started a mini-series on finding your purpose. It’s something I’ve found that people wrestle with no matter what stage of life they are in. Sometimes we simply don’t know; sometimes we feel stuck; sometimes we have been side-tracked. In this series I’ve talked about paying attention, messing it up, where purpose comes from…
From Ice Queen to Princess 