Being Transparent

Starting Over

Date: June 25, 2022
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Categories: Being Transparent

This is my first blog in over a year. Life has been a bit crazy in our household and it’s time to start over. I have allowed life circumstances to silence me in both my personal journaling and in my writing as a whole. Typically, this might not be a…

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4 Ways to Be Your Own Best Friend

Date: January 30, 2021
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Categories: Being Transparent, Friendship, Relationship, Rest, Self-help

Best friends are the best! You get to experience life with a special person who knows you in and out. Both good and bad times are spent together and you love each other through thick and thin. Life with a best friend is truly a blessing. There is nothing more…

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5 Things I Learned from 2020

Date: January 2, 2021
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Categories: Being Transparent, Death, Friendship, Overwhelmed, Prayer, Relationship, Religion

I hear so much about how everyone is glad to have 2020 over and how they’re done with the year. Yes, this year has been long, but I still can’t believe it’s over. I feel like we lived in a murky vacuum of time and as much as I know…

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Surviving the Long Days

Date: December 5, 2020
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Categories: Being Transparent, Bible Study, Christmas, Friendship, Overwhelmed, Relationship, Thankfulness

Whew! It’s been a long two months…a long two months of people dying, a long two months of watching funerals on the screen and not in person, a long two months hearing about sickness, and a long two months trying to make things normal when we all know they’re far…

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Weathering the Storm

Date: September 28, 2020
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Categories: Being Transparent, Expectations, Faith, Overwhelmed, Peace, Spiritual Battle

We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.2 Corinthians 4:8-10 NASB Why is…

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Mixed Emotions

Date: July 18, 2020
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Categories: Being Transparent, Consistency, Faith, Overwhelmed, Peace, Prayer, Rest, Spiritual Battle

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I feel and trying to figure out how to solve life’s issues right now. I’ve come up with nothing. I have no solution, I can’t fix my problems or your problems. Something seems wrong about my not being able to make things…

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Walking Forward into the Unknown

Date: May 30, 2020
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Categories: Being Transparent, Death, Expectations, Faith, Relationship, Trust

The end of May has traditionally been a harder time than normal for me. It’s the end of school for starters. I loved school growing up and I remember crying most last days of school. Yes, I continued to play school over the summer and read lots of books, but…

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