Joy Dares
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moreWhat an Easter Monday Faith Looks Like
On Monday, April 01 st, 2013‘Do not abandon yourselves to despair – We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song!’ ~ John Paul II ...
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moreDaring Greatly to Live Fully — Right Where You Are
On Monday, March 18 th, 2013When Monday gets caught in your teeth like a piece of spinach, the crazy thing is you could dare to laugh — it gets things unstuck. You know how it goes — Laugh or die. A joyful heart is good medicine, not just a good platitude. You could &...
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moreHow to Make This Month Amazing {Video}
On Friday, March 01 st, 2013What you know by heart — is what your heart really knows. And the crazy things is, right at the first of the month: what the heart knows by heart is all that can calm a heart. Direct a heart. Strengthen a heart. So I’m thinking: What does a heart know by heart? So March blows in — and this heart here stammers out a recitation of Romans 1...
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moreBlessed December! Joy Dare! And 10 Wondrous Links for Your Advent Weekend
On Saturday, December 01 st, 201210 Wondrous Links for Your Advent Weekend 1. This quiet simple fun today with the kids… 2. and this will take 2 minutes and will make you smile so, really, why not? Instant grace-decoration! 3. This really might work — I want to try! 4. Doing at least one of t...
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moreHappy August! Best Way to Begin:
On Wednesday, August 01 st, 2012Really — Take the crazy Joy Dare! Print it out for the fridge {and the kids} : use these prompts to give thanks for these gifts from God. Why bother? It’s habits that can imprison you and it’s habits that can free you and when thanks to God becomes a habit, so joy in God becomes your life. Maybe a life needs change over and over again —...
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morewhen you’re somehow missing your true homeland
On Monday, July 02 nd, 2012After such a week as last week, I’m feeling very small and quiet and I’ve slipped away to the woods with the Farmer and kids. We are resting in Him, letting Him revive us deep, laughing together and tasting and knowing it again — the goodness of God. So while the cat’s away, the mice will play and while we’re away, some remarkable friends will pl...
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moreweekends are for a thousand little things
On Saturday, June 02 nd, 2012‘For millions of Christians…God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle. Over against all this cloudy vagueness stands the clear scriptural doctrine that God can be known in personal experience. A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the trees ...
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moreThe Best Way to Start the Week
On Monday, May 28 th, 2012If we aren’t thankful to God for now — why would we be joyful for more? The dandelions keep shaking out their happy manes on the lawn, roaring summer’s triumphant entry. There are ...
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more3 Ways to Be a Happier Family …… {because we all are a bit broken}
On Monday, May 21 st, 2012to print photo 1 and photo 2 :: The kids laugh loud and the floors shake a bit with the stars and the laundry sprawls across the mudroom floor. I pick up pencils and socks and all these pieces that k...
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moreThe Happy Mom Manifesto
On Monday, May 14 th, 2012The Happy Mom Manifesto 1. The only thing that has to be written in stone is when to pray. Because it’s not schedules, busyness, or deadlines that keep one from prayer. The only thing stopping one from praying is self. {Excuse-making can be a che...
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moreA Perfect DIY Mother’s Day …………… {or “How to make Your Own R&R Day”}
On Saturday, May 12 th, 2012Because there are days when every mother – every woman – just needs to have her own perfect little DIY project: 1. Go for walk just anywhere quiet, ju...
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moreWhat Every Mother has to Know …. {Before Mother’s Day}
On Monday, May 07 th, 2012Everything beautiful always begins with a willingness to suffer. Just ask any mother. When you’d bake up raspberry kuchen for Sunday afternoon dinner, you’d make two pans and you’d make more of who we are. You made double batches and you made beds and you made more of heaven on earth and a mother can do th...
