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Christmas Mice
I have mice in my Christmas tree every year. Allow me to elaborate. My very first Christmas after college, I was newly married and my husband and I were newly installed as Associate Pastors at a rural church in North Texas settled in cotton farming country. As part of our pay, we were allowed to…
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An Arrow Not a Crown
Motherhood is not a crown on the brow, but an arrow in the chest. We wrestle with our will and our flesh as we raise up and let go. In this ongoing piercing, we endlessly require God’s presence. We mother best when we rely on Him most.
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Bereaved Mother’s Day
by MaKenzie V. Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and some women look forward to it with excitement, some with longing, and others with dread. Growing up, Mother’s Day was only ever a celebration in our home untouched by grief or sorrow. When I became a wife and a hopeful mother, I saw the…
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“Leaning into the Unknown”
by Davida Freeze “There is so much more I want to tell you, but you can’t bear it now.” -Jesus, John 16:12 NLT If you are like me, you don’t naturally enjoy ambiguity or the lack of clarity. I don’t know many adults who do! But having the opportunity to live outside of our western…
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Altering Our Altitude
”Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.“ (Genesis 19:19 NIV) Lot refused to live at the right elevation. I’m still marinating in Genesis with my Upper Zoom…
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The Men of Advent: Wise Men (and Women) Still Worship
Matthew 2:7,9-12 (NLT) “7 Then Herod called for a private meeting with the wise men, and he learned from them the time when the star first appeared. … 9 After this interview, the wise men went their way. And the star they had seen in the east guided them to Bethlehem. It went ahead of…
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Men of Advent: A Little Herod In Each of Us
King Herod never made it to the manger. What held him back?
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The Men of Advent-The Shepherds
In the gospel of Luke 2:8-20 is the short account of the shepherds that God decided were the very first people he wanted to send a birth announcement to for His only Son and the Savior of the whole world. In reading this account, I feel like this is a really important event in the…
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The Men of Advent- Joseph
Matthew 1:18-25 I sat there with my husband in a coffee shop just beneath the social services office where our appointment to meet our new son was scheduled to happen within the hour. We had arrived much too early, so I ordered an Americano that I was too nervous to drink so that we had…
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A Bride Undergoing Restoration
God is continually working the old and stained stretches of our story into something new and useful and lovely.
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