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moreHow to Make Joy in the Hard Places {Printables}
On Thursday, October 04 th, 2012A bird flew straight into the kitchen last night. Perched right on the top of that weather van on the mantle. And I looked up from the sink and thought it was you right there – your heart pounding right there out of your chest. It’s hard to be overwhelmed. What if we could do that — hand each other Joy in a Box? ...
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moreThe 1 Truth We can’t Ever Afford to forget about Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger?
On Tuesday, September 25 th, 2012My Dad had said we’d never see anything like it again — not in our life times. 120 combines lined up around one field — 160 acres of soybeans. A harvest of less than 12 minutes. An attempt at a world record. All crop donated to world hunger. They were calling it a harvest for hunger. The ...
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morewhen life leaves you with more questions than answers
On Thursday, September 06 th, 2012Only a few more weeks left now. That is what the Farmer says at dinner, what he says as we clatter dishes off the table, the enamel plates all stacking and clapping for the cook. Only a few more weeks left and August will dip the beans fields bronze and the leaves will reluctantly fall off the beanstalks and just the pods will then dangle, the only rattling ornaments hanging of...
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moreMake the Best Lunches
On Monday, September 03 rd, 2012Wrap up the food in real food: His Word. And wrap them in love…. wherever they go. List of Free Printable Downloads (including Sandwich Verse Wrappers) Free Printable Downloads: Cl...
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more3 Ways to Really Make New Habits . . . . {Free Printables}
On Wednesday, August 29 th, 2012When we read this book , there’s this character that puts on her “habit.” A little hand here pats my shoulder and asks, “What’s a habit?“ The amaryllis on the sill, it’s swelling in hope. And I tell Shalom this: a habit is something that is worn. She flickers recognition, nods, turns back to the page. She waits for me to read the next l...
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more10 Things You Need to know about Fear
On Thursday, August 23 rd, 201210 Things You’ve Got to Know About Fear — over here today… {with a giveaway}… Come fly away from your fears? : :
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moreWhat to do on Hard Days
On Friday, August 03 rd, 2012It’s what I sang over dishes. Sang on the days when I felt too weary to take another step, clean up another mess, change another diaper. It’s what I sing when the enemy attacks with lies, when I feel alone and scared, when I fear the future and whispers in the shadows. It’s what my mother-...
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moreHow to Make Any Relationship Better
On Tuesday, July 24 th, 2012When the Farmer comes in after 11 from the field, he carries it in on his grimy shirt, a few pounds of dirt. I wonder if he feels it, the weight of the gritty world on his shoulders. He finds me in a straight back chair at the window in lamp light. There are pages on my lap. He has no words. Before I can find mine, before I can say anything, he kneels on the floor. He takes my ...
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moreDay 2 of things afoot on the farm
On Thursday, June 28 th, 2012And when my stomach right knots? I try to just take a deep breath and remember. Because it’s not a cerebral cliche but a radical truth: Knowing His perfect love, it does cast out all fears. Counting His gifts makes me know His perfect love. Staying in His Word makes me know it … trust it … step out into ...
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moreWhen Worry & Fear Knots a bit…
On Wednesday, June 27 th, 2012This. This morning, waking with Colorado Spring hard on my heart. Waking now to Day 2/3 of things afoot on the farm and feeling my knees knocking again… all these lurking fears, smoke of worry in the air. And a very dear friend, Emily P. Freeman, she pulls up a chair and speaks this strength into the bones of us all…. Yes, let’s all keep praying for each other...
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moreHow to Live Your Best Life?
On Wednesday, June 20 th, 2012‘Idon’t have much time left, really.” My father’s voice on the other end of the line reminds me of my grandfather’s. It’s been nearly ten years since I heard that voice. I’m making beds. I can see Dad at his breakfast table. “At best, maybe fifteen years. I’m on my last chapter.” He pauses and I let the empty space beckon answers. Grandpa died at...
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moreweekends for being shaped into the image of God
On Saturday, June 09 th, 2012Last night here in Nashville,Christa Wells and Nicole Witt sang this song at Broken 2012… and I am still singing here this morning… (RSS Readers:
