Ever Feel Inadequate?

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Ever Feel Inadequate?

Living With Purpose in Every Season: Week 6 Do ever feel like everyone else is doing life better than you? I get it. I see what everyone else is doing and how awesome they are doing it and wonder what I am missing. As a homeschool mom for the past three years, the trap of comparison is so evident all around me. It only takes one glance around me to get me all choked up about how inadequate my homeschooling skills are. As a blogger, it only takes one click to realize how much I don’t know about the huge

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Living With Purpose: Week 4

Welcome to the series Living With Purpose in Every Season! If you missed the other posts in this series, you can find them here: Week 1: Silent Seasons Week 2: Seasons of Blessings Week 3: Seasons to Stop And now for WEEK 4: Seasons of Uncertainty   Some people just seem to know the direction for their life. For me, it is a constant learning curve. Just when I think I have it figured out, God seems to redirect me a different way. In some ways it’s exciting and other ways it brings frustration and a constant string of questions

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Living With Purpose: Week 3

Welcome to the series Living With Purpose in Every Season! If you missed the other posts in this series, you can find them here: Week 1: Silent Seasons Week 2: Seasons of Blessings And now for Week 3: Seasons of Surrender What is purpose? Purpose is knowing why we do what we do. It’s believing there is value in obeying the voice of God. It’s knowing that when God calls us to do something, He will give us what we need to accomplish it. But what about those times in life when it’s not so easy to obey? What about

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Living With Purpose: Week 1

Happy New Year! In this brand new series “Living With Purpose in Every Season” we will: *Discover what it looks like to walk daily in the unknowns of life with confidence in your calling even if your calling isn’t exactly clear. *Discover how to live intentionally in every season even when it feels like things aren’t quite working out the way you planned. *Discover the way God uses different seasons to draw you closer to Him. *Uncover the truth about yourself when seasons change. *Find purpose when you feel lost or uncertain. *Be encouraged as you gain a fresh understanding

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A Heart Full of Joy

We stood for the invitation and I felt God nudging my heart. He said, “Let the boy get baptized.” Immediately following the simple nudge from God, my little boy looked up with sincere conviction and said, “I’m ready to get baptized.” It’s amazing how God can speak to each of us individually. Jaxon made the decision to believe in Jesus and trust Him for salvation last year, but he had decided to wait until he was seven to let the church know about his decision through baptism. So we put it to rest and waited. My natural answer to his

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Loneliness, Loss, and Love

Life has a way of making us think about what really matters most. As we gathered yesterday to practice for our annual Christmas concert, there was another gathering going on not far from us. A group, who had lost someone they loved dearly, gathered to remember their loved one. The chair once filled with life and love, now sits as a reminder of loss. If there’s an empty spot in your life, and you are feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the hype of the holidays, take time to be comforted with these thoughts about the reason for the season:

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