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When People Hurt Your Heart
If you are visiting from Encouragement for Today, thank you for stopping by! If you missed the devotion, you can find it HERE.
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Can We Really Cast All Our Anxiety?
My heart literally feels broken in two. It’s a physical result of emotional strain. Maybe you know the feeling. Life happens, and it hurts. So you take deep breaths to try to release it, but no form of meditation or deep breathing exercise seems to release the grip that anxiety holds behind the breast bone. If you could reach deep…
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Foster Care – The First Night
I don’t think anything can prepare you for the first call. You can take the classes, fill out paper work for months, prepare your home and heart, but when the phone rings, everything stops. The voice on the other end of the phone line was serious and matter of fact. “Can you take a placement?” In this moment the word…
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Cancer Changes Us
Life is a roller coaster. Cancer takes the ride to a whole new level. Just when you think the ride is slowing down, a rushing force can take you to a place of complete shock and terror. This has been the roller coaster I’ve been riding since the calendar changed to 2018. Just when I thought I had faced some…
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Talking to Jesus Book Review
Talking to Jesus is a new book by Jeannie Blackmer. You can find out more about Jeannie HERE. In her new book Talking to Jesus, Jeannie takes the conversations Jesus had with the people in the book of Matthew and shows us how each of these conversations could be giving us some insight on how to “pray” or talk to…
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Worry: The Big Time Waster and How to Get Rid of It
If you missed previous posts in the series, you can find them here: Week 1 – Worry: It’s a Real Thing Week 2 – Worry: One Simple Change Week 3 – Worry: “What If” vs “What Is” Sometimes when God calls us to do something for Him, we get caught up in the details and begin to feel like we…
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Worry: “What If” vs. “What Is”
If you missed previous posts in the series, you can find them here: Week 1 – Worry: It’s a Real Thing Week 2 – Worry: One Simple Change The “what if” questions of life are hard, heavy, and honestly difficult to ask. Yet so often we live our lives beneath these questions and never say them out loud. What if…
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Worry: One Simple Change
If you missed the first post in the series, you can find it here: Week 1 – Worry: It’s a Real Thing I bolted from my room as the fire alarm sounded and I rushed to the bedrooms where my children lay sleeping. When the fire alarm goes off in the middle of the night, there’s really nothing like it.…
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Worry: It’s a Real Thing
Worry. It’s the jaw-clenching, gut-wrenching, heart-pounding thing that makes you wonder what life will hold next. It’s the fear over what you said yesterday, or what will happen tomorrow. It’s the ache in the pit of your stomach that won’t give up, and the wrinkles in your forehead that can’t relax. It’s real. And it’s wreaking havoc on our souls…
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Guest Post: I Will Miss the Mountains
I am thrilled to welcome Sarah Frazer to encourage us with a guest post today! Her new devotional, Coming Home: Finding God as Our Dwelling Place, is available now. One of the best parts of my state is the change of seasons. Each season is so distinct, unique and beautiful in its own way. West Virginia is not portrayed accurately…
