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A Bride in A Broken World
We tend to imagine brides bursting with joy, bouncing into the salon with happy plans abounding. While this is sometimes the case, many more of our brides come in burdened by the cares of life.
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Jireh, The Lord Will Provide
“Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord, it will be provided.” Genesis 22:14 Its often difficult to be patient when you are in a time of waiting or transition. Its easier to worry and…
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Be Still
“Be still and know that I am God!” I will be honored in every nation. I will be honored throughout the world.” Psalms 46:10 Busy is the understatement of our lives these days. I remember when the COVID shut-down happened and there were comments about how it was nice to be forced to slow down…
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Fashioned for Fruitfulness: Tending to our Roots
Over the years, we’ve had several banana trees in our yard here in Southeast Asia. We love bananas, so it’s always exciting to see the big banana flower grow on the tree, then the smaller flowers that turn into the bananas themselves. We’ve harvested some large, beautiful bunches of bananas over the years. One day…
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Fashioned for Fruitfulness: Fruitfulness is Messy
When we moved into our current home overseas, we inherited many fruit trees that we didn’t plant. While this is an unexpected blessing, neither my husband nor I are gardeners and the task of tending to the bounty we’ve been given has come with a steep learning curve. In our process of learning about fruit…
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Go Ahead and Cry, Girl
“You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.” Psalm 56:8 If you go back and read this whole chapter, it is referring to a time when people were out to get David. There are some other amazing, encouraging verses in…
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See You At the Top
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways higher than my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts that your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9 “God, I do not understand what You’re doing here.” We have all said…
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Fashioned for Dependence: Confessing Our Need
“If you don’t personally go with us, don’t make us leave this place.” -Exodus 33:15 We had recently returned to the states after two years overseas that had challenged and depleted me. I was standing at the campground altar in Kerrville, Texas at the end of the Leading Ladies retreat in 2018. I was weary.…
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Fashioned for Dependence: Losing Myself
Home. Security. Familiarity. Proximity to family and friends. Comfort. Those things I knew I would lose when we made the decision to move overseas. One thing I didn’t expect to lose? My identity. It’s my own fault. Growing up in our productivity-driven western culture, for most of my life my identity had been seamlessly woven into what I…
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Fashioned for Motherhood: Growing Up Also
When the kids leave home, we’ve got to decide what do do with the time we have left.
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