Tag: Grace
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Stay in Your Lane: A Sunday Reflection
There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand. Proverbs 19:21 KJV I had a crazy week last week. I couldn’t pull it together. I called myself managing it and instead was making messes left and right. I found myself falling into the old comfortably traumatizing habit […]
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The Back-end of Burnout (or, There’s No Tired Like Teacher Tired)
I sat this school year out for a bazillion reasons: My husband’s health was suffering. Between 2016 and 2021, I’d dealt with my husband’s health in the form of 2 heart a massive heart attack (13 or so minutes flatlined), numerous issues with circulation and mobility, a downturn in his attitude and an uptick in […]
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A message about Grace: The call to love
Grace really is a hard thing to give when you have spent your life judging and comparing yourself to others and others to yourself. Because you know what you’ve been through, you are so much more inclined to give yourself grace and others judgment. You have no empathy for anybody else because you don’t want […]
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Intercession. Compassion. Mercy.
I’m going to say something really mean. Waiting until people experience trauma to respond with prayer is super lame. And I don’t mean to say that prayer is no longer necessary once trauma occurs (indeed it becomes so vital then for obvious reasons); I simply mean that true prayer, true intercession leads to 3 things: […]
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I’ve Got “Godfidence”
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant. Em Jeremiah 1:10 confession. As I got up this morning, I started thinking about how proud I am of my students. It […]
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Being Hard versus Guarding Your Heart: These are not the same!
Butterfly caterpillars create something called a “Chrysalis” – a hardened exoskeleton that protects it whilst it changes. It’s cellular structure has already prepared it for the changes to come, and once the process has ended successfully? You have a butterfly! Let’s talk about it. The word of God instructs us to guard our hearts above […]
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(Wo)man in the Mirror
Straightened my hair one day (as much as I could…) and while the style itself was a complete and epic fail (we will talk above it the tools another day), I got to see where my hair was at. I could have just walked away from the mirror and marveled at my growth, ignoring the […]
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I been in the storm too long
I’ve been in the storm too long. And you know when storms last and last, we start looking for answers and reasons like Job. Job, whose storms lasted in such a devastating way, looked up to God for answers that were simply not forthcoming; then while he was waiting on God to say something he […]
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You Need Grace and Mercy, too
I write this one as I sit stewing in a pot of disappointment and unmet expectation. I talk a good game and with the help of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I walk a decent one despite this henh flesh but sometimes…sometimes the “real slim shady” stands up and clowns. The flesh wrestles me […]
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Won’t God make you clean…INSIDE?
Each summer my children have spent a month or so in Mississippi with my parents, freeing me up to adult in peace and rest from the ever present of pressure of parenthood. I love them, but I appreciate them more–and they appreciate me more–when they’re gone for a little minute. Meanwhile, while they are gone, […]
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