Category: Faith

  • The Art of Being Still

    I don’t know about you, but being still is HARD! I often find myself unable to just sit still. Sit in the quiet. I am nearly constantly moving. Whether it be cleaning while watching TV with my family. Listening to the Bible while creating graphics. Bouncing my leg while sitting in a work meeting. I…

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  • Easter – not just a one day celebration

    Easter – not just a one day celebration

    We are in the beautiful season of Easter, but how often do we forget what that truly means? Yes, it means gathering together with your family and celebrating. Yes, it can mean having fun with Easter egg hunts and decorating. Lots of food and going to church together. But do we remember what we are…

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  • Be Still, Be Quiet

    Last summer my husband and our kids took a trip with my parents and sisters and their family out to the Black Hills. The Black Hills are beautiful and we got this gorgeous cabin in the midst of the forest in practically the middle of nowhere. Literally had to drive through a quarry to get…

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  • Purple Shirt

    Twice a year, my church does a 21 Days of Prayer. During this time, we make sure to dedicate time spent in prayer. People from the church and sometimes outside the church send us all sorts of prayer requests ranging from cancer and health needs to jobs and kids. During the weeks of 21 Days…

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  • But….

    What’s the first thing you think of when you hear but? No, I’m not talking about your caboose or your rump. 🤣 But: Used to introduce a phrase or clause contrasting with what has already been mentioned. I was doing a study recently on the book of 2 Kings. After a while, the book can…

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  • The Inevitability of Death

    There is nothing that makes you think more about your own mortality than when someone you know passes away. Recently, one of my my co-workers that I had worked closely with on projects in my job passed away. Not much older than myself, with children and a wife, a car accident claimed his life swiftly.…

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  • Keep Growing!

    Keep Growing!

    Have you ever had a garden? Watched it grow from a seed in the dirt into a beautiful flower, or a hearty tomatoes? I am not much of a gardener, but over the last few years I have successfully gotten cucumbers and tomatoes to grow in my garden. I’ve turned my black thumb into more…

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  • Not Living, Simply Not Dying

    As we are still in the midst of this pandemic, though there is a light at the end of the tunnel, I feel pressed to remind and encourage everyone to keep living. For most of us, we’ve been stuck in this quarantined state, barely leaving our homes. For many, they are paralyzed by fear of…

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  • 2020

    It is definitely a different world that we are living in right now. A different kind of norm than we are used to. Oftentimes now when we have the opportunity to leave our homes, this is how we leave or are greeted by others. Yes, this is definitely different and hard. And with everything negative…

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  • Hold on…there is hope in the midst of darkness

    In the words of the wisest crab of the ocean: Life is….hard and there are times that it is so easy to let yourself be overcome. It is tough to see the rainbow when you are going through the storm. We have seen this more and more frequently and over the course of the last…

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