Love
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Faith, Hope, and Love: Anchors for a Busy Mom’s Heart
Some legacies are measured in accomplishments or possessions, but my dad’s legacy is rooted in something deeper—faith, hope, and love. These three simple words defined the way he lived, and they’ve become anchors I cling to when the waves of life feel overwhelming. As busy moms, we often feel like we’re being pulled in a…
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Finding God’s Comfort When Grief Feels Overwhelming
When we lose someone close to us, grief torments us and compels us to question the morality of such a profound loss. It’s when these losses hurt so badly that you start realizing that you cannot experience this level of grief without having an equally high level of love — the kind of love that…
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The Power of a Kind Word: Lessons from Proverbs 31
Do you snap at your kids and your husband when you’re stressed out, overstimulated and just over it all? As a busy, working mom, it can feel like our actions and reactions in the midst of the chaos can cause words we regret to come spilling out of our mouths – toward our kids, our…
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Healing Our Nation Through Love and Service: Reflecting God’s Love in Divisive Times
Our nation is crumbling. We have no love or joy left in it. We only have hatred and divisive beliefs that pit parents against children, friend against friend, neighbor against neighbor. Martin Luther King, Jr. shared, “Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political,…
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5 Life-Changing Lessons I Learned From My Dad
It was the last day of fifth grade and I remember it vividly. Okay, well, maybe not vividly but pretty distinctly. We weren’t the kind of family that made the kids go to the last half day of school and be there the whole time. Dad took us to get our report cards and say…
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Spring into Faithfulness
When I think about faithfulness, I think about the bulbs in my garden that are beginning to bloom. All winter they have laid dormant underground in the dark just waiting for the day to come that their leaves can start peeking through the soil and mulch. I knew they were there yet I did not…
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Love is not…
What a blessing it is to know that God loves us so much that He would send His only son to walk on Earth with us, show us the way to live, and then sacrifice His life on the cross to offer us salvation and life everlasting. God models this love for us as a…
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Love is…
I read something recently that spoke about moving through life with the desire to love others well. Each night at the dinner table, this family asked each other how they loved others well that day. What a great way to live life! Friend, how have you loved well today? This week? This month? If you…
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3 Ways to Show Love to Others
Happy Valentine’s Day, friends! My family has been fighting off all kinds of winter bugs so I’m a little behind on my writing. Valentine’s Day is the perfect day to talk about relationships and what we need to do to maintain happy, healthy relationships. While some feel today is a Hallmark holiday, others use it…
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Relationship Struggles
Happy ❤️ month, everyone! I love February! In my mind, February is all about relationship building and heart health so that’s exactly what I’m going to talk about this month. I’d like to give you a little background on why I am so passionate about cardiovascular health. Four years ago at the age of 50,…