Inspiration

When It Ain’t Easy

April 27, 2011 The Good Word
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There are things that come naturally to some of us, but not so much to others. You might find it really easy to open up your home and life to the people around you. Or you may find hospitality totally draining and prefer to leave it to the people who like it. From learning to [...]

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you’ve got to be you

April 18, 2011 The Good Word
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S ometimes, I start to wish I could just keep the laughs coming like the Pioneer Woman. She takes beautiful pictures and has great style and will soon have her own cooking show and she is just a hoot! I am not that funny. I also wish I could creatively create like the Nester, or [...]

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Four Years Past Scotland, Hang a Big Right

August 4, 2010 Stories

Last week I quietly celebrated a little personal anniversary. It was five years ago that I boarded a plane from Atlanta, Georgia to venture toward a new life in Scotland. My big brother and I landed in London on July 28th, and on the 29th we were on our way up the island to my [...]

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Mercy Rising Giveaway

June 14, 2010 Giveaways

Hey guys and gals! There’s a giveaway over at the Run-a-Muck right now for a book called Mercy Rising. Perhaps in some ways akin to the Hole in our Gospel which has been rocking my socks off for the past wee while, it is an inspiring book that will help you believe you can make [...]

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Jesus, My Rubbish Collector

June 14, 2010 The Good Word

I was following along with a conversation on a friend’s website about entitlement the other day. And I began to recognise something that has been changing in me without me being fuly cognizant of it: I’m becoming aware that there is more (and more) “rubbish” in my heart, and I need help taking out the [...]

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Free for All Friday: Poverty and Beauty

June 4, 2010

I hope your weekend gets off to a scrumdiddlyumptious start! There are a few great reads I’d like to share with you this Free-for-All Friday. Plus, I’d love to suggest stopping by to see the latest pics of my adorable niece here. I cannot wait to meet her! Can I also suggest you enjoy the [...]

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I Get On My Knees

May 10, 2010 Prayers in Poetry & Prose

I‘m not one for creating a religious rule to abide by any means. Or for saying something always ought to be done a certain way, at a certain time, or in a certain place. (Since Jesus seemed to move in different ways at different times.) So please don’t think for a moment that with the [...]

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When God Doesn’t Seem Good

May 7, 2010 The Good Word

In Matthew 15 and Mark 7, the story is recorded of a Syro-Phoenician Woman who asks Jesus to heal her daughter. Every time I read this story, I see something new. And as we’ve been speaking of pressing through it seems yet another lesson is here, waiting for us to get it. The woman asks [...]

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