Some years ago as a teenager I found myself in an Art Class during Vacation Bible School at the church I grew up in. The Art teacher brought the class into a room with a wall of mirrors, sat us on the floor facing the mirrors and with paper and coloring pencils/crayons told us to…

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Yesterday, I received a printed word of encouragement on a slip of paper, in an unlikely place, at an unexpected moment. The encouragement was a scripture – Romans 10:13. “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (New International Version) I’ve read that scripture before and have heard it preached in…

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To be honest, all of us are just trying to make it. We’re trying to live the best we can with the cards we’ve been dealt. And all of us have been dealt different hands in life. Each of our story boards look different, and our positions within our stories vary, yet our angst, our…

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A few days ago my 13 year-old shared with me in a writing piece, a scripture that speaks loudly in her life right now. I was familiar with the scripture, however, the words she wrote after that made my knees buckle and my heart leap. She wrote about disappointment and moments of despair when she…

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