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to encourage your heart and
add a lift to your step
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to encourage your heart and
add a lift to your step
Love Note To My Lefe’s – November 2015
My monthly love note to the three I'm blessed to call family... November 2015 edition: Bill, Alissa & Zach, Can I just tell you how much fun I had with you over our Thanksgiving break??!! This might have been my most fun trip ever! God continues to bless our times...
When Gratitude Becomes A Reaction
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. --William Arthur Ward I've kept this quote in front of me recently, and as I've done so, I'm finding it contains much truth. A humdrum...
He’s Not Done With Me
I continue to be reminded God can use anything He wants to teach and grow me. (That is becoming a lesson within itself.) And when He does, I am encouraged because no matter what the lesson or teaching moment is, I receive another reminder: He's not done with me yet. I...
Five Minute Friday – Dwell
Here we are again! (My, these weeks fly by!) It's Five Minute Friday... where many of us set our timer and write for five minutes straight, unedited on a one-word prompt. We gather and share at Kate's place, and encourage one another in our writing. It's one of the...
When Less Turns Into More
I stood there in my kitchen in disbelief. How did this happen? It was so subtle. So elusive. I was consciously unaware of the hold it had on me. Until that moment when it was if the scales fell from my eyes. Our possessions were controlling my life. Here I was...
When Anger Is A Good Thing
After calming down, the desire to lash out left me. Continuing from yesterday's post, I have learned from experience my words usually aren't profitable or helpful when I'm angrily upset. But after this roaring momma bear prayed and got a grip with my emotions, I was...
