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Women in our culture seem to thrive on busyness. Perhaps we wear it like a badge of honor, proud to be doing so many things and helping so many others. Or maybe it comes from a sense of guilt. We see other women scurrying around and involved in everything under the sun, so we thing we need to as well….
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Since day one, many have asked about The New Chick’s biological mom. And for all seven of the months he’s lived in my house, I’ve put off writing about her. But, there is a season for everything, and a time for every purpose under heaven. The first time I saw her it was in the Chambers County Courthouse. I looked…
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“Through love, serve one another.” Galatians 5:13 I have a terrible habit. Every morning I take my coffee out to the porch where Nate and I have our quiet time, and every morning I forget to bring in the empty coffee cup. Instead, I leave it sitting on the table next to where I sit. It quickly becomes a prime…
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She came to us in April. Ragged and filthy, she wore only a flimsy shirt two sizes too big and a diaper that was dirty inside and out. When I opened the door, she was draped across the social worker’s shoulder, sleeping like she never really had before. I gathered her tiny body and took her to the crib in…
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December 8, 2016 Three years ago on December 8, while I was frying bacon, God asked me to say yes to foster care. Several times in my life His voice has been so authoritative, that I had no doubt it was Him speaking. December 9, 2013 was one of those times. Today- exactly three years later – we adopt Rachel…
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August 8, 2016 Sometimes I just can’t get over God’s ways. Like the way he pushed the early believers out of Jerusalem and into the world to spread the Gospel through persecution of all things. And then, He dramatically saved the primary persecutor and made Paul one of the foremost missionaries of the very mission he had previously tried to…
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July 14, 2016 I have been questioning how I can be satisfied and happy while in another country, miles and hours from my children. Always there is this tension of whether I should be okay when we are apart. I love my children so, and I miss them terribly, but I’m tremendously fulfilled in what I’m doing this week in…
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June 12, 2016 Usually I am hustling around getting children ready for church at about this time on Sundays. Instead, I’m sitting quietly in the yard at the Disciples’ Village campus in Haiti, listening to the soft sounds and soaking up the peace that accompanies this blessed place. We visited a village church today. I could hear a woman praying…
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