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Your Identity In Christ | 20 Scriptural Confessions To Remind You

Do you ever have days where you bow your head in defeat? Where you’re one hand away from waiving your white flag of surrender? Days where you feel like you can’t see who you were truly created to be as an Heir of the King? Me too. No one really has it all together! Keep […]

20 Bible Verses To Jump Start The New Year

There is nothing magical about the New Year, but there is something magical about vision, especially Godly vision. Click here to read how to build a family vision in 2020! So, here we are. The first day of a NEW DECADE. The new year has arrived, and along with it, new goals, dreams, “resolutions”, high […]

How To Not Hate Your Family During The Holidays

You have a plan. A perfect plan. Then, someone forgets the family dish to pass. Becky spills the milk all over her brand new, paid-way-too-much-for Christmas outfit. Your kids are kicking, screaming at each other, at you, and at Lenord the fish who sees it all. There are a dozen presents still in Amazon boxes […]

Hole or Whole This Holiday? | The Pursuit of Something More

Have you been in pursuit of the busyness this season, and feel like there is a weight you just can’t shake? Like you just may scream if you hear, “have a holly, jolly Christmas” one more time? Ever wondered if maybe there’s something more? You hear it on the radio, in stores, Hallmark movies, and […]

Building A Village | A Culture’s Cry For Community

Squeals from my 4-year-old at the top of the stairs as her little legs caught up with her big girl plans yelled, “Mommy I can’ttttt. I just can’t go any further alone, I need help.” As I rushed to her aide, it made me think… How many times have I tried to find strength all […]

Growing in Gratitude | An Intentional 30-Day Pursuit

It’s November, which hand-in-hand goes along with thankfulness. However, this month, we’re asking you to join us on a 30-day pursuit of growing in gratitude through the Word of God. If I’m being honest, I woke up today a bit grumpy. I woke up to kids (who rarely eat candy) starfished on the floor because […]

Releasing Grief | Walking With Those Who Weep

Have you ever walked through a season of grief? Days you can barely wake up, crippling grief? Or maybe you’ve walked through that season of grief with someone. I’m talking real, messy, nearly-unbearable-grief. One thing we have lost in our culture is the acceptance of true mourning. We need a period of time set aside […]

THAT Mom – Be Her | A Doubting Mom’s Reminder To Pause

So she was one of the [many] moms that gave me a pep talk before becoming a mom. But not the pep talk like, “oh you can do it, you’re going to be a great mom” No, the honest -real life-mama-bear- pep talk. You know, that mom. The call-in-all-hours-of-the-night mom in your village. Everyone needs […]

My Story With Postpartum Depression | Overcoming Postpartum Depression

CLIMBING OUT OF THE POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION CLOUD + FINDING NEW PERSPECTIVE Writing, along with capturing moments through imagery, has always been a form of healing for me. A way to shift my perspective, alter my reality, or in some cases bring me back to the some-days awesome, some-days messy, reality I get to call mine. […]