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They were blue and white, and I loved them. It was not just love, it was luuuvvvvvvv. Their narrow vertical stripes alternated. Navy blue. Stark white. Navy blue. Stark white. Like a dusty, old record that skips, the blue and white repeated the pattern over and over, encasing each pant leg. The stripes were smaller,…
A devotional is a devotional, right? Oh no! Not this one. The pages of this devotional, Wife after God, Drawing Closer to God & Your Husband, are a heart study. The book is much more than surface-level. It has depth. Each morning I looked forward to studying with God and the author, Jennifer Smith. Really!…
Wilted lettuce. The men were like wilted lettuce in my opinion. Oh, they believed. They walked side-by-side with the Messiah. They watched his miracles first hand and soaked in the droplets of his words like a tall cup of refreshing sweet tea on a hot, humid day. It was good. But there was more. Their…
“That’s okay. You didn’t need them anyway,” my brother voiced. His words were sweetness to my rejected 9th grade ears. They shed a ray of sunshine to this gal’s heavy, rejected, you-didn’t-make-the-team heart. They brought hope, that maybe, just maybe, there was life after rejection. Negativity swirled in my brain the…
It’s a week for love, is it not? Maybe it’s a different type of love, this one we’re focusing on today. But it has its place at the very core of our being. It’s a love that weathers all storms, delivering its personalized mail through rain, sleet, hail, and snow. Nothing can…
“Sometimes those that are the hardest to love are the ones who need it the most, Kristi,” she said. I winced at those words. Hard people are hard to love. Period. But her words were a gold mine. They always were. They dripped with wisdom at every syllable, so I took note. I looked…
Leaving the past behind ~ linking up with Suzie Eller at #Livefree Thursday. There’s a sweetness, an air of beauty to Ruth. The strength in her flow, in everywhere she goes, cries out that Ruth is a God girl. She’s my hero. In Tuesday’s post we skipped through Ruth 1 and garnered strength…