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Hi friend, The holidays are upon us and I don’t know about you, but I am already feeling it. It’s a familiar feeling. A mixture of joy and stress and happiness and the feeling of being on the verge of snapping at every person who lives under my roof.  Every year when the holidays approach, ... Read More about This Year Will be Different – Only It’s Not

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Friends, So much of what we see on social media, especially this time of year, is the shiny stuff. It’s the freshly baked cookies and the images taken by the Christmas tree. It’s the matching pajamas and the immaculately decorated home. It’s another year of wonderful traditions and the twinkling lights covering the outside bushes ... Read More about It’s Not About the Shiny Stuff

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This morning, while drinking my coffee, I looked at the items scattered across my kitchen island and was reminded of the goodness of God and the importance of community. A tray of gluten free chocolate brownies baked with extra chocolate chips sits next to the freshly baked gluten free bread loaf. Each of these gifts ... Read More about A Season of Pain and Growth

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When I spend time with people who really know me and get me, with people who love me as I am, with people who have seen me in my highs and my lows and all the in-betweens, with people who don’t expect me to fulfill something that was never mine to fulfill, with people who ... Read More about The Kindle Version of Return to Jesus is On Sale This Week for JUST $1.99 (and an excerpt from Chapter 9 for you to enjoy)

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I’m in a season of midlife sifting. It’s not a crisis. Crisis implies something bad is happening. And this isn’t bad. On the contrary, I believe it’s good. I’m in a season of life where I’m becoming increasingly aware of how quickly time passes. It’s a season of caring for both children and parents. It’s ... Read More about I Am Not In a Crisis – I Am Sifting Through Midlife

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Excerpt taken from Chapter Five – Return to Restoration: Put On Your Oxygen Mask from the book, Return to Jesus When we’re on an airplane, the flight attendant instructs us to put on our oxygen mask first before helping others. The reason is simple: We need air to fill our lungs before we can help ... Read More about The Overflow of Self-Care

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I met the Lord in these waters. Nearly every day when I was in Northern Michigan, I would float, weightless on the water. With my arms outstretched, I would feel the cool waves on my body as the warmth of the sun caressed my cheeks. I would talk to God and imagine Him holding me. ... Read More about I Met the Lord in These Waters

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When we found out our daughter, Amelia, had a lung abnormality and there was concern she may have cystic fibrosis, the world stopped. When my parents told me my dad would be moving out, never to move back in again, and then again, when my dad and stepmom declared their marriage was beyond repair, the ... Read More about Jesus Wept

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I’m exhausted. The kind of exhausted that you feel in your entire body. It’s head to toe to soul exhaustion. Part of the reason is that it’s May and May is just a wild ride from start to finish. Part of it is that I am working more than I ever have before. Part is ... Read More about To Everything There is a Season – and This One is Exhausting

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(This post originally appeared on my Truly Yours, Jen Facebook Page) It’s May, and that means people everywhere are tired. Teachers are tired. Bus drivers are tired. School staff members are tired. Coaches are tired. Parents are tired. All the people are tired. Except kids. Kids are not tired. They are wired and excited and ... Read More about Because May

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