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31 Days to Flourishing Friendships {Day 28} Take Initiative
Yesterday, Kristy shared about identifying connection points as you look around to assess where and with whom you can grow in friendship. Once you identify the who and the what, it’s time to make a...
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31 Days to Flourishing Friendships {Day 29} Overcoming Obstacles
There are many things that tend to get in the way of our friendships. Busyness Jealousy Fear Insecurity Differences Distance The list could go on and on. Each one of these obstacles could easily...
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31 Days to Flourishing Friendships {Day 30} Avoiding the Clique Cliche
We’ve all been victim to the female clique. It happened to me in 7th grade and it happened to me last month. A group of tight-knit girls bonded so closely together there is no room for air, let alone...
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Overcoming Obstacles in Friendship (continued)
The posts that Kristy and Jessica wrote about friendship last week were excellent and inspiring, and if you haven’t read them yet, you really should. I feel inadequate to add to what they’ve already...
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31 Days Conclusion: The Fruit of a Flourishing Friendship
Relationships that flourish produce much fruit. They enhance our lives as well as the lives of those around us. Good friendships are life-giving and essential to every human being. . .precisely why we...
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The Art of Shutting it
This post, this truth, this resolution—they pain me. This year, I am trying to embrace grace by keeping my mouth shut. I feel that, in typing that sentence, I have completed the easiest part of this...
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Marriage: Time Tested and Grandmother Approved
I’ll never forget it. I was 19 and on holiday my sophomore year of college. I was visiting my grandparents who had retired to an island off the coast of Florida. Their idea of enjoying the Golden Years...
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She’s Just Not That Into You
Picture a volleyball game between two people, where the ball is friendship. At some point somebody picks up the ball of friendship and serves an invitation to connect. This begins a natural volley...
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The Gospel According to People Magazine
People magazine is like white-flour for the female imagination. We certainly don’t neeeeed it, but a little bit doesn’t hurt and it tastes oh so good going down. Last week, I was nearing the end of...
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What Makes You Happy?
She called and left a message. We hadn’t talked in years, so she didn’t even know about my third child. To get a hold of me she had to track down my husband and ask for my number. Then a couple of...
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Finding Context For Relationship: A MOPS Spotlight
We sat around the table almost silent. No one dared be the first to utter a word. As the discussion group leader, I shared and prompted, hoping someone would join in. “Would anyone like to pray over...
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#31 Days, Day 14 A Moment of Silence
Sometimes we find ourselves at a loss. Sometimes we lose the privilege of getting to live life on earth with loved ones. Even though we often have the hope of seeing them again, our heart grieves...
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How to Grow Deeper Friendships this Year
There was time not so long ago that I stood in constant comparison of other girls. How did I measure up? Am I good enough? I’m not that pretty. I can’t do what she does. My measuring stick was...
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When Friends Lift You Forward: The Power of Saying It All
I spent this past weekend in a beautiful house beside a frozen lake. Twelve women from church came together for our winter retreat, making the hour-long drive away from home and kids and life stuff to...
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The Hostess with the Mostest: Practical Tips on Hospitality
My mom is always saying that hospitality in the home, or what she calls “entertaining,” is a dying art. I don’t disagree with her. It seems nowadays when people want to spend time together they...
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Why We Need Community (in) Real Life
Oh how I love this space and the conversations that happen here. I love that we can be real and honest and sprinkle grace through this online atmosphere. But I hope you know our heart is not to take...
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Reaching Out and Drawing In – (in)courage Community Group Invitation
It’s amazing how easy it is to feel alone. . .even with social media connections and all of the busyness we fill out lives with. Especially as moms, we can become isolated by the walls of child...
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The Power of Encouragement
I used to shy away from online interaction. Although I find it much easier to express myself with the written word than in person, it just didn’t seem authentic to me. And then I put on my big girl...
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When We Steal from Our Friends
In this last year, it feels as if hacking, fraud and identity theft have become common-place in our society. Cyber-tech crimes occur in an unseen virtual world where I’m barely literate....
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12 Scriptures to Help Us Love Well
This morning I’ll send my girl to school with a backpack full of valentines and a heart full of love. I try to be intentional about teaching her to love well but if I’m honest, she’s teaching me more...
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