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The Dream for the New Year
We’ve moved back to the Rock House, and our den here is blinding in the mornings, sun pouring in. This used to be Grandma and Grandpa’s home, and now it’s ours, outlined in hot pink azaleas and wild...
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Waking Up From Someone Else’s Dream
Big Dreams. Big is relative, but we all dream. Many of those dreams may be seeded in reality or at least in the realms of human possibility … but we all have aspirations blended with a dose of whimsy....
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Let Him Dream for You
There is a big difference between doing something for God and working with Him. He plants a dream, an idea, inspiration, in each us. When we’re young, or today, that is His size. {Why wouldn’t it be,...
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Give God Your Art
Most children love to color, draw, paint, create. Mine do. I did. Somewhere along the way, however, I not only ceased to believe that I was capable of creating art, but that it would even be worthy of...
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This So-Called Life
It’s a rarity these days for people to ask children, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Regardless of if the question is ever asked, the truth is we all have expectations don’t we? I can count...
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How Tightly Should We Hold On To Our Dreams?
“The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.” Proverbs 16:9 I wonder if sometimes God’s dreams for us are “lower” than we think. “God-sized dreams” might be small, and tucked in,...
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No More Waiting
My fingers are covered in post-it glue. I’ve been furiously planning; leafing through pages and pages of “visit here!” slogans and photos of larger-than-life castles, endless greenery and hearty bowls...
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When You Feel Like a Failure
Can you be an obedient failure? What if you’ve done everything you should and nothing turns out like you thought it would? You don’t even feel or think the way you thought you would after all the hard...
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Why I Cut Coupons
I am cheap. I routinely shop thrift stores, Goodwill, consignment, and the 75% clearance rack. I love to get a deal! So when all this coupon craziness started happening I wanted in on it. Saving $300...
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Delivering a Miracle
I watch her eyelashes grow. I stare at her pink pouty lips. I caress her dark baby hair as she feeds. Amazed by grace. Overwhelmed by His love for me. My arms now full of answered prayers. My daughter...
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The Secret to Perseverance
This post almost didn’t happen. I’m exhausted and out of town. I just helped my parents downsize and move from their home of 15 years. How do we all collect so much stuff even when we don’t intend to?...
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When Your Promised Land Looks Ugly
I’ve been searching along back roads and gravel drives. Looking, trying, wanting the journey to begin. Trying to keep burning passion for the vision from singeing too much of me. Concerned someone...
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Recommended Reads: Longing for Paris
Sometimes I find myself dreaming of two lives, paralleling each other. In one life, I’m doing what I’m doing now. I’m married, raising my precious children, homeschooling, and — as Barbara Mouser says...
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Focus on Him, Not Them
Mary received a visit from an angel. Joseph was visited in a dream a few days later about the same news. We glaze over this familiar story. But something struck me as we rolled down the road, while my...
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The Extravagant Invitation We’ve All Been Waiting For
So, I’ve been having this dream. And in the dream, there’s a long table stretching out under an open sky. The heavens are coated with stars, so many stars that we don’t need to light the ivory tapers...
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