Tag: storms of life
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ABOUT THE DRINKING
Don’t shoot the messenger, y’all. This is a tough teaching. But chances are, you either have struggled with this, are wrestling with it a bit now, or know someone who has/is. I am in Ephesians 5:18 today and it hurts a little. In this clip, I share some shocking statistics and tell the truth about…
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WAIT
a poem about suffering and what it means to W A I T what I wouldn’t give to rise from this window seat of longing and brave my way into the gray and through the gray to part the veil that obscures life from Light drown this sorrow in your river; crystal, to its verdant…
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How My Fear Became Faith
Fear was my father’s favorite game and one I learned to play at four years old. With gleaming green eyes and a wicked sense of humor, my father was a force. His family had always been trouble and trash, but he was equally handsome and charming. My mother met and married him in a whirlwind,…
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victory celebration
I am a sucker for baptisms. They get me every time. I don’t know why I even bother to wear makeup on Baptism Sunday because the sobbing is so severe, God help my mascara. I so love the symbolism of being washed clean, of being made new, of being raised up in new life. I just can’t ever…
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chinese water torture
So last night, we were going through our nightly bedtime rituals when, much to our surprise and annoyance, our smoke detectors all started going off. A quick, adrenaline-packed race through the house proved that no fire was burning anywhere, and yet that persistent and piercing siren continued to wail. We reacted like any nice Christian folks would;…
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in all the in-between
I don’t mean to be controversial, but I am not a huge fan of Oreos (I know, I know- the scandal.) It is just that food items that have one texture on the outside and another on the inside give me the icks. But one thing I do admire about the Oreo is that it is one of the…
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a song worth seeing
As I mentioned in my last post, I was recently asked to review and blog about a movie that will be coming out September 26th called The Song. This whole “reviewing things” is a niche I accidentally stumbled into after getting to guest blog with Jen Hatmaker and review her re-release of Interrupted in a little…
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yet another obsession of mine
I love – and I mean crazy-love – thunderstorms. I am a self-diagnosed Doppler Dork & Storm Stalking Psycho. I don’t know if it is the danger or the drama or what, but nearly nothing gets me more excited than when I know a big storm is blowing in. Ask any of my friends –…