Throw the Scale Away. Victory Awaits.

I must have stepped on the scale a thousand times, those years where weight and my own ability to slay my life felt carried, heavy in my hands. Little did I know, this self-management had been carried, not just from my mass, but to my life, heart, religion, and thinking about God himself. I grew up […]

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30 Short, Power-Punches of “Hope” for Us All

This is what heaven must look like” I said to my daughter, as we heard Siri announce, “Welcome to Colorado”… White, paradise-like peeks, sparkling streams, and life that seeped deep into our lungs effortlessly as we breathed in fully, the fresh-mountain air. We had been to Denver twice, attending two previous Missional Women Conferences from the Northwest corner […]

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“Who Are You?” Finding Identity and Worth

It started with a little girl, six-feet away from a tall man, talking with an associate at Lowe’s Hardware. “Who are you?” The five-ish looking girl, peers up, interrupting her dad talking. Stumbling over his words, clearly wanting to impress the worker he is in deep conversation with, looks down at his little girl, smiling sheepishly […]

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When “Mother’s Day” Hurts or Doesn’t Fit in Some Tidy, Little Box

Hallmark has a way of taking something sacred and idealizing it, to the point of where even the best mother’s can question their ideologies. Meme’s, hashtags, heart-felt stories of abnormally fabulous moms can make the average-everyday-dishwasher, clothes-cleaner, diaper-changing parent look at their faith or family in distain. And then there is this day….The one where some […]

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