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moreHow to Get through Life’s Hard Parts (Video)
On Friday, April 05 th, 2013When the notes keep coming out all wrong, Hope looks up from the piano. “Is that what she said? Didn’t she say play only the left?” Yeah, that’s what she’d said, I had heard her — that willowy piano adjudicator who’d tucked a loose strand of mouse ...
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moreThe Big Reveal: What Faith is, from First to Last
On Tuesday, February 19 th, 2013So…(!) since one of the kids sprained an ankle while serving here at Mission of Hope Haiti, we’ll catch up here again tomorrow with a Haiti family missions trip post, and let Liz Curtis Higgs , my heart sister who has jumped into our The Romans Project with us, slip up onto the farm porch with these heart strengthening words….Liz is the humble, wise (and fu...
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moreWhy Weak is the New Strong: Radical Right Where You Are {Pt4}
On Wednesday, February 06 th, 2013So I fell extremely anemic in the fall. Could hardly drag out of bed, felt like jello, looked like a gaunt ghost, and got winded walking from the sink to the stove. I’d draped arms around the Farmer’s neck and told him I was sure I was right broke. ...
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moreEven in the Bleak Midwinter, the Hope of Spring
On Thursday, January 17 th, 2013So.. (!) Liz Curtis Higgs took me under her gorgeous proverbial wing last year when this knee-knocking farm girl said yes to God & sharing what He’s done in my life at several Women of Faith events last year. We’ve become true heart sisters, praying that God would make ours beat with His. So when Liz jumped at The Romans Pr...
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moreThe 1 Habit God Really Wants for Your New Year {The Romans Project}
On Friday, January 04 th, 2013For all of 2012? I carry around the Mount and it moves mountains. And there isn’t a bone in me that wants to come down from where He transfigures. ...
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moreHow to Not Miss Your Real Life Calling
On Friday, November 16 th, 2012When they cut the three right open and start pulling out the inner guts, there isn’t a sound in the room. They’re focused and silent and pulling at strings and ripping away at things and I wonder if I am doing any of this ridiculous thing right? Not the pumpkins — I could care less how we hack these three up. It’s the kids, this year, my life. ...
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morewhen you are feeling overwhelmed…
On Friday, June 15 th, 2012When a sparrow gets caught behind the couch, it’s the light at the other end, behind the poor thing, that we keep trying to turn that one pounding heart towards. Because the thing is and don’t I know it: If you’re turned the wrong way, you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. So I’m kneeled on the floor in front of a poun...
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moreThe 1 Habit at Every Meal that Will Change Your Life {or When Beth Moore Tells You She’d Like to Come for Dinner}
On Tuesday, May 29 th, 2012and then the most gracious Beth Moore sends a tweet to the farm yesterday: and the kids and the Farmer all gather around & marvel at Mrs. Beth’s very real Farmer: “He has a real John Deere hat on!”...
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moreWhen You Want to Turn Your Life Around
On Monday, February 27 th, 2012It’s after I cut the squash right open. The two halves split and quartered there on the cutting board. After the paint brushes are washed out, after the pawns of chess game are all returned to their squares, afte...
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morewhen it’s hard
On Monday, October 17 th, 2011Mama had the tea ready. I had on the socks that the woman with the 5 kids and the stage 4 cancer knit me. This is always first thing: to go right into the throne room of God wearing nothing less than your aching prayers. Anne’s on time for our early Saturday morning Bible study at Mama’s, sitting at the end of the living room, there in the wingbac...
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more… upon the things of God
On Thursday, August 18 th, 2011‘T here are times when… silence is wiser than speech. We should be better … if we were more alone, waiting upon God. And gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God because we thus get the...
