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Why #MercyMe is the Most Influential Band in My Life
It’s funny how our senses imprint memories subconsciously. A certain sound, smell, or feeling can come flooding back without our knowledge. Deja Vous? Maybe, but for me, my MercyMe journey started in 1999. I was a first year English teacher at Greenville High School in Greenville, TX. I did have family close, but I was living completely on my own for the first time, navigating a new job, a new town, a new church, and new independence (coupled with some loneliness and bouts of depression). I had never heard the name Bart Millard before, but it wasn’t long before I was being given MercyMe CDs. These were independently produced albums…
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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 Own Unexpected Journal
I’m surprised I even recognized the name. It had been years: more than ten, if my calculations are correct. Not to mention the number of students I had taught since I had him: hundreds? Nevertheless, I recognized the last name and clicked on it. Sure enough, this girl had married him, my former student. We weren’t particularly close: I don’t “friend” my former students, and I have zero idea what mutual contacts this girl and I had, but there she was, nonetheless. One click revealed a breath-taking wedding photograph behind the font reading “Jesus is King”! This detail was particularly important because, while I had a few outspoken Chritian students…
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One Voice, One Hope
www.facebook.com/share/p/hzzT6PJp4Pi1Ye1k/ My latest post for encourage about unity in the body of Christ
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A Reminder to “Look up” instead of at the world around us.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/UwWsB8B6H6XaECz4/?mibextid=K35XfP
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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