Prayer

Can You Resist Temptation?

Date: September 30, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Boundaries, Overwhelmed, Prayer, Relationship, Rest, Spiritual Battle

Temptation is such a colorful word. Sin, wrongdoing, bad places, bad friends, Satan, and Adam and Eve are just a few things that come to mind. Along with temptation, I think of failure, guilt, shame, and disappointment in myself or others. Temptation tends to have a negative connotation to me….

And, Now, We’re Moving On…

Date: August 25, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Friendship, Prayer, Relationship

This week we took our oldest daughter to college. It was a new experience for us; both exciting and weird. For those of you who have gone before us in this part of life, you might have a better word than weird. Unfortunately, I’m still in the process of processing…

Celebrating Life!

Date: July 3, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Friendship, Prayer, Relationship, Simplify

Today is our final day of our 26-day trip in our RV. I literally woke up with a pit in my stomach just thinking about it coming to an end. It has been a joy and a privilege to spend this time together as a family. Our family of five…

Living a Dream

Date: June 9, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Death, Expectations, Peace, Prayer, Relationship, Trust

I’m writing this post from an Arkansas state park early in the morning as the kids are still asleep. The family is on the start of a 26-day journey across parts of America in an RV. This is something Brian and I thought we’d do one day when we were…

Time to Move Forward

Date: January 31, 2018
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Categories: Being Transparent, Expectations, Faith, Overwhelmed, Prayer, Relationship, Spiritual Battle

After a hard, long, and rough month of my life, I decided I was going to stay home from church and have some one-on-one time with God and my Bible instead of going to my normal Bible study. I needed to talk with Him personally and not talk with others….

God Has a Plan for You

Date: October 27, 2017
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Categories: Baal, Being Transparent, Israel, Prayer, Spiritual Battle

Jeremiah 29:11: “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” (NLT) The Israelites were losing everything they had ever known. The Babylonians came after Jerusalem and took exiles to…

Hate Cancer?

Date: May 27, 2017
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Categories: Being Transparent, Faith, Prayer, Relationship, Trust

This has been a crazy year in our household for sure! The more I’ve prayed for God to help my heart break for what breaks His, though, I’ve been amazed at how much I have come to hate cancer. Most of us have a person close to us that’s been…

Defeat or Hope?

Date: May 13, 2017
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Categories: Being Transparent, Death, Expectations, Overwhelmed, Prayer, Relationship, Stories, Trust

We lost another good person to cancer this week: Jerry. He was the one we met during the first round of chemo treatments. He and Brian hit it off and they talked everyday that week of treatments. Jerry was also the one I wrote about back in November when I…

Holy Week — Are You in the Dark?

Date: April 15, 2017
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Categories: Being Transparent, Death, Expectations, Faith, Friendship, Israel, Prayer, Relationship

This is the week of Passover: Holy Week. The Jews have been celebrating Passover ever since they left Egypt so many years ago and made their way to the Promised Land. The idea of Passover was for them to remember where it was they once came from and to celebrate the…

Wars and Rumors of War

Date: April 7, 2017
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Categories: Being Transparent, Israel, Prayer, Spiritual Battle

There is a lot of uncertainty in our world right now as the United States launched rockets into Syria last night in response to Syria’s people dying from chemical warfare. Wars. Rumors of Wars. Civil Wars. Murder. Chaos. Injustice. Evil. The picture above was taken when we went to Israel….

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