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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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First off, thank you all so much for your support of my book Return to Jesus: An Invitation to Abide with Him in Every Beautiful, Stressful, or Tedious Moment. It’s hard to believe in a little less than one month, the book will be available to purchase at actual bookstores! Eeeeekk! As a thank you ... Read More about Return to Jesus Bonus Chapter is Available TODAY!

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. Friends, I am so excited to say that my podcast is officially up and running! This has been a labor of love that is completely outside my comfort zone. I am the furthest thing from tech-savvy and have had to learn a lot of new things, but this experience has served as a good ... Read More about There are Exciting Things Happening….Podcast Updates, Newsletter Info and More

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Hi friends, First and foremost, thank you so much for being here! It is an honor and a privilege to be able to share my words with you. It is a gift I hope to never take for granted and one I thank God for regularly. I have some exciting things happening that I just ... Read More about There are Exciting Things Happening….An Amazon Giveaway, Podcast Updates, Newsletter Info and More

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We live in a Pinterest board world. A world where our fingers are constantly swiping through the advertisements that bombard our social media feeds. A world where comparison can arrive at any time of day to steal our joy and leave us feeling inadequate. We live in a world where the message we receive regularly ... Read More about The World Is Screaming More, and I Am Saying Enough

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Dear Reader, This post was originally shared on my Facebook Page Wednesday morning, and as I have tried to think of what to share on my Blog – I just keep coming back to these words….. I have not known how to respond, or what to say. I have attempted to create a space that ... Read More about We Reside Here Together

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