For several years, I’ve been living on a prayer. “Lord, please sell our house.” I wanted with all my heart to move my family away from the non-family friendly neighborhood we’d found ourselves in. You
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Tag: Faith
Summer Porch Reality
So many times we look at what others have and our innocent looks turn to coveting, when in actuality, even if we had what the others had, we wouldn’t be able to use them.
Read moreWhy We Can’t Be Afraid of Change
“We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a
Read moreYour Pep Talk
Be encouraged! Take heart! While it may seem that the world has blind-sided you today lookout! You’re coming back around. Sometimes in life, we need pep talks. Aptly spoken words that lend us the courage to get
Read moreWilling to Serve
Ken’s mother was working in the kitchen when she heard a knock on the door. She wiped her hands on her apron, headed to the front room, and turned the knob. There on the porch
Read moreThings I’ve Learned From Loss by Gail Cooper
It’s funny the things that well up inside you after experiencing loss of any kind. You begin to look at things through a different lens and you rarely take things for granted. But why does it take tragedy to see the beauty in simple things?
Read moreStuff Ends
Stuff happens. As you have read on a bumper sticker or t-shirt, or at least something along those lines. But that stuff ends. That stuff comes to pass. The worst pain I have experienced was
Read moreWhat If You Don’t Have a Life-Changing Testimony?
I’ll never forget the first time I realized God was calling me to ministry. It wasn’t a call I wanted to hear.
Read moreOpen Houses
It’s been 415 days since the for sale sign was posted in front of our house. We’ve stopped looking for our next house. Our realtor no longer shows us perspective new homes until we have
Read more3 steps to surviving change
I bounced out of the auditorium, diploma in hand, scanning the crowd for my family. A hand fell on my shoulder and the familiar voice of my dad boomed over my head, “Welcome to the
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