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Bent but not Broken
We appreciate the light so much more when it comes after the dark. We appreciate the Spring after the Winter, the sun after the rain, the healing after the wound. Then we get to help walk others through the darkness because we know the way.
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Nurturing Our Little Lights
My little girl has a bright light within her soul, growing brighter and brighter each day. Who am I to want to stifle this and keep her beaming, beautiful light all to myself? To keep her like a light flicker when it can be a flame?
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When Our No’s Become Yes’s
I'm saying "yes" to a few quiet moments outside before this day begins. I'm saying "yes" to a slower day, a day of rest. I think this is the "yes" I really do need. Thank goodness for the "no's" because of all the needed "yes's" on the other side.
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Joy In the Being
How often we have to fight for peace...but when we do, we find it. My peace was here in the splashing and giggles and wet floor. I wanted it to last forever.
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Fighting For Peace
Oh how our minds, when left on their own, strive to control, to plan, to ruminate, to live anywhere but the present. Going to beautiful places will not do anything for us unless we change the landscape of our minds in midst of it all.
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I Can’t Have Control, But I Can Have Joy
I am learning, in this season of all the things, I can't have mastery or full control. But I can have joy.
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On Working Mom Guilt
It was a Monday morning. My 18 month old daughter cried extra hard when I said goodbye to her as she left with my husband for daycare. Feelings of guilt started rushing in as I watched them leave the driveway.
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What I Learned In 2023
A full year, with so many sweet lessons the Lord has taught me in mothering, work, health, and freedom.
