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Kick in the Gut…

Do you ever have a “feeling” deep inside about a person, circumstance or decision? I have noticed it a lot the past few years. I started trusting this gut feeling and altering my way accordingly with...

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Trick or Treat Hypocrite

This has been on my mind for weeks. I was wrestling without clarity. Then I received a call this morning that that thoughts afterward brought such clarity I feel as though I can articulate the...

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Five Minute Friday: Quiet

With LisaJo at http://lisajobaker.com/ It has been weeks of extra children, extra work, extra responsibilities, upcoming parties, holiday prep, school parties, volunteer work, friends in need,...

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Five Minute Friday: Stay

You can be a stay at home Mom, yet absent from your kids. You can stay in a marriage, yet your eyes go elsewhere. You can stay friends, yet compete for attention. You can stay with Christ, yet remain...

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The Queens Quarters

Enough is enough. The Queen had started the en devour to conquer clutter in the castle and came up against a wall…a very high and wide wall. It’s name was “lack of closet space” and it was a power card...

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I am Done

Or at least I think I am…or at least I want to be!! Let me take you back through the waves to and fro of thought that brought me to this moment, to this post. I have suffered a lot due to pride, its...

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Hope Deferred

 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. Prov.13:12 I have felt hopeless. Not faithless or loveless…yet oddly hopeless and heart sick. I feel foolish for risking...

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When Served A Bitter Plate

I came to the computer first today. My spirit so starving, yet I came to a place that has seemed to only take. So I sifted though the few tabs on my browser, not knowing what I was looking for. I...

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Anything but Peace

The hustle the bustle of life around me is anything but the quiet and stillness needed to replenish and restore. I had a rough couple of weeks physically and thus emotionally. All while entering into a...

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Dumping Peace

There are days that start out by receiving…filling…and peace so fills my person that I feel lifted and light like I am dance in the clouds. As the day tarries on I stumbling over expectations,...

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Gift Rejected

I have been desperately holding tight the peace given to me paid in full. It has been weeks of physical weakness and as I grow wearier forces threaten to lessen what I need! My husband left for days...

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Gift Accepted

I sit in this place humble. A work that began in me just a few years back has opened many gifts of the Father and began an unraveling of myself. Each grasp that held tightly what I knew to be true and...

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The Price of Knowledge

I have to confess that I have been deeply shaken. Since the news of Friday’s Tragedy of heartless murder, I have been deeply moved. When I was a child I would watch the news with my parents every...

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Perfect Timing

Got a new book and am very excited about it. One simple unexpected conversation let me to search and I settled on this book…not even knowing how perfectly it was in line with all that God has been...

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Crafting at Christmas

Taking a break from the deep to share a slice of our family. As a young family I wished for traditions for our celebrations. I tried different things and many were hard to implement year to year and...

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Taking Christmas

This morning I am overwhelmed and under energized. I spent the week cleaning for clients and had to leave my house for last. As I made my last minute “running” list and the long list of “to do”…I...

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Christmas Funnies

LAUGH AND ENJOY THIS SEASON!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

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No Room

This is not a post to boast. It is to give a perspective that could bless a person in your realm that no one else notices. If you open your eyes to see as Jesus sees you might just be surprised at the...

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Looking Back

….before blazing ahead. I got a summary of my year helpful from wordpress last week. It noted my most popular posts and my statistics. In one year 125 posts, 341 photos and 5900 views…I was a little...

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Looking Back Too

I have been looking back through the posts of 2012. There is a lot there and it has been good to remember the lessons learned, the stories shared and the prayers ushered. I have re-posted some most...

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