Legacy, Faith, and the Sacred Work of Finishing Well
Legacy, Faith, and the Sacred Work of Finishing Well In the final stage of the family life cycle, focus often shifts from building to blessing. From striving to stewarding. From…
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God’s Faithfulness in the Letting Go
God’s Faithfulness in the Letting Go Letting go is rarely clean. It’s layered, repetitive, and emotional. Each milestone brings fresh reminders that time moves forward whether we’re ready or not….
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Praying for Your Teen When You Feel Powerless
Praying for Your Teen When You Feel Powerless There is a particular helplessness that comes with parenting teenagers. You see risks more clearly. You know consequences more deeply. And yet…
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Trusting God When Parenting Feels Overwhelming
Trusting God When Parenting Feels Overwhelming There are moments in parenting when competence gives way to humility. When no strategy seems sufficient. When fear rises quietly in the background. Overwhelm…
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God at the Center of the Marriage System
God at the Center of the Marriage System Every marriage has a center. Something shapes decisions, priorities, and responses under pressure. For some couples, it’s convenience. For others, fear, control,…
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Faith When You Step Into Adulthood Alone
God Goes With You: Faith When You Step Into Adulthood Alone Stepping into adulthood can feel lonely, even when you’re surrounded by people. Especially when the structures that once held…
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Naming Your Season
Naming Your Season Before we go any further this month, let’s pause. Not to analyze.Not to fix.But to notice. What season of family life are you in right now? Are…
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Hope Beyond Awareness
Content Note: This post discusses suicide, suicide loss, suicidal thoughts, grief, mental health, emotional pain, or crisis support. Please read with care. If this topic feels activating, it is okay…
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7 Verses to Read When You Feel Like Giving Up
Content Note: This post discusses suicide, suicide loss, suicidal thoughts, grief, mental health, emotional pain, or crisis support. Please read with care. If this topic feels activating, it is okay…
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Dear You, The One Who Feels Like Giving Up
Content Note: This post discusses suicide, suicide loss, suicidal thoughts, grief, mental health, emotional pain, or crisis support. Please read with care. If this topic feels activating, it is okay…
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Spiritual Disciplines That Center You, Not Shame You
Spiritual Disciplines That Center You, Not Shame You Somewhere along the way, many of us learned that spiritual disciplines were a checklist. Pray more. Read more. Fast more. Serve more….
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How Jesus Modeled Rest in a Demanding World
Jesus healed the sick. He preached to multitudes. Jesus walked with the hurting, raised the dead, and answered the deepest cries of the human soul. Still, He rested. Rest Wasn’t…
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Trust the Period
Trust the Period There are times in life when God says, “It’s done.”A relationship ends.A door closes.A chapter finishes.And yet—we still stand there, confused, clutching the pen, trying to rewrite…
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You Were Made to Overcome – Believe in Yourself and What God Planted Inside You
You Were Made to Overcome – Believe in Yourself and What God Planted Inside You There will be days when you feel small. When the mountain in front of you…
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God Rested Too – A Biblical Look at Rest
God Rested Too — A Biblical Look at Rest Sometimes we forget that the very first thing God called holy wasn’t a person or a place. It was a day…
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New Beginnings are the End of One Chapter and the Start of Another
New beginnings. They carry a quiet kind of hope which is soft, steady, and full of promise. Today is the last day of June, and with it comes a shift….
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With Every Joy and In Every Hope
This journey with OMS has brought me to my knees more times than I can count. It has stretched me, refined me, broken me open and built something stronger in…
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Trudging Through the Muck of Life
Let’s be real…parenting is hard. Parenting a child with a rare disorder like Opsoclonus Myoclonus Syndrome (OMS)? That’s a whole different level of hard. Some cases of OMS are tied…
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Praising God in the Cold and the Storm
There’s this image I used to carry. It is an image of me, my family, sitting around a cozy campfire, singing Kumbaya. Everything is warm, glowing, peaceful. That’s how life…
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Forgiving Yourself: A Path to Grace
Forgiving Yourself: A Path to Grace We often talk about the power of forgiveness—how freeing it is to release bitterness toward others. But what happens when the person you need…