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The Cure for “Facebook Envy”: Be Thankful
If I admit it, I’ve always been this way-the coveting type. I envy others’ sense of style, popularity, fun personality, job, or life in general. You’d think I’d have outgrown this ridiculous habit. It’s not like I don’t know that there isn’t a single person who hasn’t been touched by this fallen world. Time and time again, I have idolized a person's life just to learn of a heart break they’ve endured, usually something much more tragic than I’ve never even come close to experiencing. Broken relationships, wayward children, contentious relationships, debt, discontentment-dysfunction is rampant, even in the lives of those who have the most convincing Facebook photos.
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Reflections on an #Unproductive #Garden: Facing #disappointment in our everyday lives
Now, Lord willing, I will have a thriving pumpkin plant soon (they always surprise me), but I hate waiting. I want immediate satisfaction, no snags (or slugs), immediate success. I don’t know about you, but I feel the same extreme impatience in many areas of my life. I want immediate results in my relationship with my husband, my prayers for my children, my mentoring relationships, and my educational and professional goals. I know, I know, we live in a fallen world ruled by God’s purposes, not mine. But when I pray, I want an answer, when I make an effort in a relationship, I want results, when I make a…
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My latest post encourage on being available to what God has for us each day
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/272Gf5aHLkeq7vGY/?mibextid=K35XfP
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The Quest for Peace
www.facebook.com/share/p/XzMj927Rv76w5Cj5/ My latest post for enCourage on peace.
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For those who struggle with #prayer like I do
https://www.facebook.com/share/1WPtuM9KvaoYLzBW/?mibextid=K35XfP
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My latest post for enCourage on parenting boys
m.facebook.com/groups/connect.pca.women/permalink/6276695289080377/
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Raising Children in a Success Obsessed World
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The Quest for Appearances
https://www.facebook.com/groups/connect.pca.women/permalink/5700914459991799/?mibextid=S66gvF
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A Mother’s Game Day Prayer
It’s funny how I would never Pray for my favorite NFL, MLB, or NHL Team to Win Of course, you are so much more concerned With the state of your church, and the many lost and hurting souls Than my team’s current rankings I know what you value Yet find myself praying for my son’s soccer, football, or running team To beat the cross-town or cross-state rival Or even worse Praying he will beat out His teammate we have known since elementary or middle school For a varsity spot This pitiful behavior begs the question How do you want me to pray For my son or daughter on game day?…
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When All I Have is a Mustard Seed
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Yes, Exits Are Required
I wasn’t too concerned. We had just driven this a year ago. How difficult can it be? I lived in Dallas for two years without google maps. Did we really need to use it every second? Well, despite my husband’s warnings, I missed two exits. In both cases, I didn’t think we had to turn off at all. I thought the other traffic veered away from us. Nope. I was wrong. Exits are funny things. They take action, a commitment. Once I’ve exited an interstate, I can’t just get right back on. I have to leave that route behind and join a new one. Recently, my department head at the…
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The Waiting Game: Learning to number my days
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. In a lifetime of living within an hour of this small resort town, I hadn’t seen anything like it. A rare flood engulfing the main street receded, leaving the street filled with river rock-not small river rock, but large rocks requiring heavy equipment to remove them. We thought we were past it, disasters like the one last year that made camping, hiking, and tourist activities difficult. Last summer’s dry conditions left my home state-and this particular town- engulfed in flames and smoke for the majority of the summer and fall. This year, however, we had snow and then rain, and lots of it.…