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to encourage your heart and
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to encourage your heart and
add a lift to your step
Loving The Skin You’re In – A New Blog Series!
I heard an alarming statistic the other day: 50% of us women are on a diet at any given time. Yikes! Could that really be? I did some searching and found this statistic to be true. We're bombarded with all sorts of messages on social media telling us we're not enough....
Decide To Like Who You Are
I heard these words last week and I've been thinking about them ever since. "Decide to like who you are." Spoken by Sally Clarkson in a Tuesday Teaching through a writing community called Hope*writers, these six words have caused me to intentionally answer some...
6 Reasons Why Your Story Matters
Your Story Matters. This was the subject of our last BYOB and B (Bring Your Own Bible and Beverage) event held last week. Goodness, we had a good time together! Laughter, fellowship with one another, food, new friends, and encouragement through God's Word filled our...
4 Important Things To Remember About Right Now
Right now is a pretty important place in time. It's here, this moment, this day. It's what's happening now. And, there's at least four important things to remember about it. 1 - Right now is what we have. This very moment is all we're guaranteed. For years I lived for...
What I Learned on RAGBRAI 2019
The dust has settled from returning from RAGBRAI 2019. My cycling shoes, however, are still covered by the precious Iowa dust they collected over the ride's seven days. If only those shoes could talk, what a story they could tell! Their lingering smell says enough,...
Think Your Story Doesn’t Matter? Think again.
Friend, what's your story? We each have one, you know. And no two of us have the same one. Our stories are as unique as we are. Maybe you've never thought about your story. You might think there's nothing special about it. Or maybe you think you've made quite the mess...