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Combating Anxiety with the Power of Intentional Moments
I’m thrilled to share the wise words of my friend Nichole Suvar with you today! Nichole and I met in the world of online writers, and every time I read her words, they touch my heart deeply. Today, I’m honored to share a post from Nichole about combating anxiety with the power of small, intentional moments. Nichole recently released a new book called Numbering Our Days, and this book is helping me slow down, consider my thoughts, and make the most of my moments in light of eternity. It’s exactly what I needed in this season. This wonderful book contains 49 short devotions challenging us to overcome anxiety and embrace intention…
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How to Overcome the Storms of Life
Not long ago, we awakened to a world encased in a silver sheen of ice. Crystal droplets, frozen in time, hung from the railing of the deck like daggers waiting to fall. The wind howled, and frozen shards flew from the jostled branches of the poplar tree. The scene prompted me to consider how to overcome the storms of life. How to Overcome the Storms of Life The storm raged all day, and when I came home from getting groceries in the evening, our daughter, Bekah, was outside attempting to feed our three pet beagles. Our beagles are hunting dogs, and they are happiest living in a well-insulated kennel in…
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A Sneak Peek into Our New Mother-Daughter Tween and Teen Devotional Book
Calling all moms and daughters! Today’s post will be a bit different! Bekah and I are just dropping by to share an excerpt from the mother-daughter tween and teen devotional we wrote together this year! In case you missed our announcement last week, it’s called Girl to Girl: 60 Mother-Daughter Devotions for a Closer Relationship and Deeper Faith. The book is designed for mothers and daughters to read the devotions out loud together (or aunts and nieces, grandmas and granddaughters, or mentors and younger women), and we’re excited to share one of our devotions here with you today. The book will go on sale in mid-November, but we want to…
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8 Hope-Filled Bible Verses About the Storms of Life
We all face storms in life. If you feel like your ship is about to sink, let’s dig into God’s Word together as we uncover eight hope-filled Bible verses about the storms of life. Bible Verses About the Storms of Life The summer I lived in Alaska, we took a ferry through the fjords near Seward. A cloud of mist shrouded the bay like a crumpled quilt as our small vessel inched closer to a mammoth glacier. Without warning, a chunk of ice the size of a small house broke free from the ancient ice field and crashed into the cobalt sea. Our tiny boat rocked and bobbed like a…
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5 Bible Verses About God’s Faithfulness in Life’s Storms
Are you searching for Bible verses about God’s faithfulness? I invite you to join me amid a raging storm as we open God’s Word together. 5 Bible Verses About God’s Faithfulness in Life’s Storms The other night, a storm rained itself empty like it was working something out. Sometimes life is kind of like this—you wrestle with God until you’re spent and poured out. The aftermath might look like everything thirsty has been watered, or it might look like the carnage after a tempest unfurls in anger. We’ve wrestled with God more than once throughout this past year. At times, life hasn’t gone according to our plans, and we’ve faced…
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Three Truths for the Trials and Tribulations of Life
The spring beauties are pushing white petals through the beige of last autumn’s fallen canopy, and I wonder if they’re some sort of sign. Would God really speak through the petals of a dime-sized white flower? In some quiet way, I wonder if he sent these little miracles to remind me that even amid the trials and tribulations of life, hope is still rising. Spring is still rising, even amid late March’s tormenting white flurries. Life is still rising, even when everything around you starts to feel like the worst kind of death. I read Peter’s words as I sit down amid the tiny flowers: “do not be surprised at…
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Six Encouraging Bible Verses About Overcoming Adversity
Are you facing a difficult time? Today, we’ll unpack six encouraging Bible verses about overcoming adversity. Let’s start with a conversation about what happens when we learn to push through pain and hardships. Bible Verses About Overcoming Adversity I take the boys to the woods on an almost spring morning. The skunk cabbage is rising through the muddied earth like a foretaste of the vibrant life soon to fill this wooded valley. Caleb’s seven-year-old legs have grown long and lean over the past year, and he hardly complains when we walk together now. I’m taken back to a season when every walk through this valley was a test in pushing…
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10 Bible Verses About Overcoming Fear and Worry
Are you facing any fears? Today, we’ll dig into God’s Word and unpack 10 powerful Bible verses about overcoming fear and worry. First, let me share the story of a great fear that threatened to paralyze me. 10 Empowering Bible Verses About Overcoming Fear Our first child was born on a Tuesday. I could barely believe she was hidden within me for all those months. After the hyperemesis diagnosis and the months of lying on the bathroom floor in a cloud of nausea, I couldn’t comprehend the love I felt for her. I never knew love like that was possible. In the months following her birth, I spent hours marveling…
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God Will Make a Way: When God’s Ways Don’t Make Sense
A thin band of pale light hovers over the horizon like a breath only partially exhaled. I watch from my window like I’m waiting for the day to exert itself by letting go of the light it holds in restrained lungs. I’ve been wrestling with God lately—the kind of wrestling you do when you begin to doubt the promise that God will make a way. I open the Bible with the turquoise cover, and my eyes fall upon the words: “For the Word of the Lord is right, and all his work is done in faithfulness” (Psalm 33:4). It sure doesn’t feel like God’s faithfulness when the dream you were…
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Has God Forgotten Me?
A single oak leaf glides on the breath of dawn like it’s in no particular hurry to meet its final resting place on the icy earth. I watch from the window and reflect on the events of the past day. We’ve been walking through some long months here, and a painful question lingers in my mind: Has God forgotten me? I long for the gentle reminder that God is still at work in the areas where I’ve been waiting on him for years. Most of us know how it feels to wonder if the Lord has forgotten us. Whether we’re trudging through dark valleys of life-shattering losses or walking through…