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Everything I Needed To Know About Church Planting, I Learned In Underoos.
Song of the Month: “Time To be Awesome” Zoe Saldana Everything I needed to know about church planting I learned in my Underoos. Ok, so maybe not everything, but a lot. It’s the beginning of 2018. I’m on my second month of being forty-five years old and I’m realizing that who I am, is really so…
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The Beginning of Bravery
This article was first published at: https://www.namb.net/flourish-blog/the-starting-point-of-bravery Please vist for more encouraging articles for women in Leadership. I sat in my elven sized, silver Toyota Yaris, crying. My family was miles away on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and I was alone with my husband of fifteen months. But that’s not why…
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To be Angry at God…Or Not To Be…
Photo Credit-Rachel Peterson…Thanks rad mama! Song of the month-The Unmaking by Nichole Norderman (No Spoiler alert. The back of the book I refer to here tells you more than my references do:) I just set down a fairly popular memoir that has taken me some time to get through. Not because the author wasn’t a…
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Sold! To the Lady with the Big Belly!
SOLD! To the Lady with the big belly! Song of the week: Oceans-Hillsong Doesn’t that cake look yummy? I love cake walks and auctions for delicious looking desserts. I can hear the gavel now…Sold! To the lady with the big belly…Fortunately so far, no auctioneer has actually said that to me. But if one did,…
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Time to Quit?
Song of the month: Gone,Gone,Gone -by Philip Phillips So when is it time to quit anyway? Here we are again. In the ER room with my Beautiful Micro Premie Eden Hope. “Eden,” I repeat to the nurse who keeps saying the wrong name, “as in The Garden of…” She’s my perfect little flower. It’s times…
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What We Fight For
Little Fighter Song of the month- Miracle: Foo fighters It’s been almost two months since we brought our little miracle home from the hospital. Our Eden Hope, born at 1lb 2oz is now a whopping 9 1/2 pounds of poopin, spitin-upin, late night a cryin, baby fun….and we volunteered for this, even paid to do…
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Who Needs Wings?
“Look to the ant you sluggard” Doesn’t the Bible just have a way with words? I mean who would ever think to say such a statement to you? And if they did, would you ever talk to them again? Or duck behind the grocery isle each time they headed your way? Still, we can’t deny…
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We Go Together Like…
“We go together like Ramma lamma lamma Ka dinga da dinga dong.” We go together like…Mac n cheese, or as Forest says, “We goez together like peas en carawts Jenny.” Church unity, friendships, love, such a blessing when we have it isn’t it? #birds chirping, flowers blooming# I cautiously say “have it” as though unity…