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Birthdays and Being Grateful
This weekend, my daughter Lauren became a one-year-old. In the midst of welcoming guests, decorating, watching her smash chocolate cake and sing Happy Birthday, my heart dreamed and prayed for all that...
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Home
We are looking forward to getting back home. I realized it when we were on the long trip back to our house, that I wished we were going in the opposite direction. We had just spent an amazing,...
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Packing
As the days move closer to our move in the beginning of April, so the pressure rises to pack up our belongings in time. For Matt and I, moving also proves time to sort, clean out and prioritize. For...
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Good bye
Good bye is never easy. In fact, saying good bye to people you love, who have invested in you, cared for you, who truly are family, is altogether difficult. We have one day before we head out of town,...
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Burning Book
I am so thankful God was watching over Jackson this morning when I was not. Jackson started shouting to me, “I burned the book! I burned the book!” as I was coming down the hallway after changing...
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My Favorite Ornament This Year
I look forward to putting up our Christmas tree every year! Though our tree is a hodge-podge of ribbons, garland, ornaments and lights, each branch holds special memories. Beautiful ribbons used to...
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Thankfulness abounds
Our Thankful Tree is now complete, but our thankfulness continues to abound. Almost every evening in November we sat down as a family, each wrote down one thing we were thankful for, and then prayed...
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Home of the free
Lauren felt safe from the fireworks under her covers with Cheer Bear. The first firework we lit in the yard to begin our Independence Day celebration also set off fearful screams and waterworks from...
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Thankful: God makes His presence known
Then the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed. So Moses thought: I must go over and look at this...
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Thankful: God made me
For it was You who created my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will praise You because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, and I know this...
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Thankful: God is the good shepherd
I am the good shepherd. I know My own sheep, and they know Me, as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life for the sheep. - John 10:14-15 Today, I am thankful that Jesus is the...
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Thankful: God is in control
Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me,” and they came near. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt. And now don’t be worried or angry with yourselves for...
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Thankful: God loves the world
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 Today I am thankful that God loves the world. God’s...
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Thankful: God makes all things new
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea no longer existed. I also saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from...
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Thankful: God provides escape from temptation
No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to humanity. God is faithful, and He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation He will also provide a way...
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Thankful: God is the beginning and the end
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. - Revelation 22:13 Today I am thankful that God is the beginning and the end. God is the beginning. He is the...
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Thankful: God is the light of the world
Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.” - John 8:12 Today I am thankful that God is the...
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Thankful: God sent me Jesus
Earlier this month, Lauren came home from school with a large blank construction paper feather to decorate and add to her class turkey. She was tasked to creatively illustrate the feather with what our...
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Loving God in the little things
Wash, dry, fold, put away, repeat There are weeks for me when writing doesn’t take center stage. In fact, it’s hard to even find the stage under the piles of laundry, dirty dishes and a myriad other...
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