(This post contains affiliate links, which means I may receive a small commission – at no extra cost to you – if you make a purchase through one of these links.) Have you ever walked into a room and your heart lit up? You closed your eyes and felt the tension melt away. Energized, creative, […]
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This post may contain affiliate links, which means I may make a small commission – at no extra cost to you – if you make a purchase through my link. As always, all opinions in this post are mine. I remember the day I got my first disciple. The day started early. Although the event
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(This post may contain affiliate links, which means that I may receive a small commission – at no extra cost to you – if you make a purchase through one of my links.) Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. (Proverbs
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It happened in an instant. Even with his lips pressed together, he looked like he was licking taffy off the roof of his mouth. But his crinkled eyebrows and wet eyes told a different story. Some people think autistic kids don’t have normal feelings, but I knew better. Because I had just made my son
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“Daddy’s going to live by himself for a while. But we love you, and that’s never going to change.” No one gets married expecting to say these words to their precious children. Once, we sat together rubbing a hand over a large belly and imagining the happy future of the child within. But this wasn’t
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This is part 2 on How to Make Your Home into Your Dream Sanctuary. To read part 1, click here. In my last post on making our homes into our sanctuary, we discussed how our attitudes affect our home and what we can do about it, as well as how to create a welcoming environment,
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This is the first post in a series about creating sanctuary in our homes. Join me and fellow readers over the next few weeks as we “fluff our nests”. Let’s get started. Pssst…if you like this post, will you share it on Facebook and Pinterest? Thanks! You know the place. It’s a white farmhouse in
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Two words sure to kill contentment: “I deserve.” A furtive shadow cast on the floor alerted me. I whipped around just in time to catch my son running off with an apple. And not to eat it, either, that I knew. The fruit bowl was empty, so he’d been at this a while. I tore
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1 John 3:18 “My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.” How many of us are living lies, and don’t know it? Too many stay-at-home moms – and women who want to stay home – get trapped by misinformation about the stay-at-home lifestyle. Dreams and
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I love self-help books. When relationships are going off the rails, then you’ll find me at the library digging through the 742 stacks (that’s Dewey Decimal system for the self-help relationship books). If you were hiding behind my couch, spying on me as I pored over the pages, you’d see me nodding and “ah”-ing and
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