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to encourage your heart and
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The Blog
to encourage your heart and
add a lift to your step
Let’s Be Honest With Each Other: How Are We Doing?
Can we talk? Can we be real and honest with each other for a moment or two? Let's be honest: how are we doing? Friend, how are you today with all that has to do with COVID-19? How is your family? What is getting you through these days? What has been helping you, and...
God Is Bringing Good From What Appears To Be Bad
In yesterday's post I shared three reasons why I believe God is not surprised at the outbreak of COVID-19: God is God, God is perfect, and God is good. Today we're zeroing in on the last of those three and how I believe God is bringing good from what appears to be...
God Is Not Surprised By This (Or Anything Else)
Well, friends, here we are. It's likely we're all a bit surprised these days. Surprised to find ourselves doing things we never expected to do. Seeing things we never thought we'd see. And, surprised to say words we never expected to say. We may even be a bit...
I’m Realizing What I Had, Now That It’s Absent
Sometimes we don't know how good we've had it until it's absent. Until it's not there anymore. As the saying goes, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" (Thomas Haynes Bayly). Whether that's a person or a thing or a place, we all know how this feels. I think my heart...
As We End The Crazy Week I Never Expected
So, here we are at the end of a crazy week. Probably the craziest week I've ever experienced! COVID-19 has surely turned life upside-down for us all. We're all trying to find our way through the maze of emotions, news feeds, and reality. Two things are for sure: 1)...
Calm Is Contagious – A Truth For Today
Scrolling through my Facebook feed last night, my friend, Rhonda's, post stopped my scroll. With her permission, I'm sharing it. It read, "Calm is Contagious." I've had plenty of moments in the last week when calm wasn't the word you would have used to describe me. In...