Over the past few months God has shown me how small changes in my life make a difference. Often the most meaningful change we need to make is how we view our lives, God, and ourselves. Each day this week I will share with you one […]
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I can’t believe I’m starting my third year as an empty nester. Our youngest, Kerry, worked on campus this summer so we didn’t have her home over the summer and her classes start tomorrow. I haven’t written much about my process of releasing her and being an empty-nester […]
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Recently I was asked what books I’ve used in my time with God to teach me and grow me—other than the Bible, of course. What a great question! Why haven’t I shared these titles with you before?! As I read each of the seven books I have felt as if […]
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I talk a lot about priorities—prayerfully deciding them and then faithfully living them. I truly believe that is the way Jesus lived. He knew what was His from His Father and what was not. Sometimes it’s hard to figure that out. This summer God has loaded up my life. His […]
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“Thank you for being so real.” Women make this comment to me many times after I speak. I love it. It means they heard my heart and we made a connection. But more than that I trust it means that they joined in my journey with God and that experience […]
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I found this picture in an ad in a magazine in the seat of an airplane. It perfectly illustrates the conversation I recently had with a couple of moms in my generation. One was an empty nester and the other a soon-to-be empty nester. We were nostalgic as we realized […]
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It’s Day Two after the retreat I spoke at for the Family Church in Sutherlin, OR. I had a fabulous time, and from what the women shared with me, they did too. In the couple of days they were away from their regular lives they were able to hear more […]
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I spent last week with Katie. She’s a graduate student in Indiana. I took up residence in the living room of her tiny apartment, sleeping on an air mattress. Katie works lots of hours so I didn’t see her a lot. However, I did see more clearly into her life […]
Read More...This blog originally appeared on Jill and Jeremy Tracey’s blog, upsidedownfamily.com, February 7, 2014. “Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.” W.H. Auden I love this quote on friendship. […]
Read More...Setbacks and Surprises are part of intentional living and are beneficial. My first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. When pregnant with our second child, Gene’s job was unexpectedly terminated. He was without work for five months. In the 2008 stock market crash we lost a considerable amount of the […]
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