Peace in the Unknown

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Peace in the Unknown

Welcome to a new series – Peace in Every Place! If you are in a season when peace feels a bit distant, I hope this encourages you. We all go through tough times. So hold on and know this too shall pass. If this series encourages you, be sure to leave a comment or shoot me an email! I am praying for you! Peace in Every Place We all know that feeling of facing circumstances that cannot be predicted. It’s the waiting periods of life that make us evaluate our faith and question our motives. Have you been there? You want

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Calling All Perfectionists

Living With Purpose: Week 8 Sometimes we wait for the circumstances to be perfect before we take a leap of faith. I’m not a good waiter. I like things to happen fast. Once I get my mind made up, I like to make an action plan and leap with all my might. Sometimes it’s good. It means I act in faith and let God work out the details as I go. Other times, it’s complete foolishness. I jump ahead of God and get into deep water that I cannot navigate on my own, and then I wonder why I feel

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Ever Feel Lonely?

Ever Feel Lonely? I entered the room of women excited to make new friends. While they laughed about old memories and giggled over inside jokes, there I stood on the outside looking in – alone. I wanted to laugh and join in the fun, but I didn’t know the inside stories and didn’t understand the jokes that caused them to explode into simultaneous laughter. So there I stood with a smile plastered on my face, and an empty sinking feeling filling up my entire chest. I was surrounded by people, but felt completely alone. Have you ever been there? You

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Living With Purpose: Week 5

Week 1: Silent Seasons Week 2: Seasons of Blessings Week 3: Seasons to Stop Week 4: Seasons of Uncertainty And now for Week 5: Seasons When You Feel Shattered   As a teenage girl I knew what it felt like to feel shattered. On the first day of school, a boy who I really liked, asked me to go to the biggest event of the school year. One day after lunch, he asked if we could talk. Right there in the middle of the lunch room he ripped out my heart and told me we would have more fun with

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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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