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How to Introduce Your Child to Jesus

Introducing Your Child To God

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Introducing Your Child To God Have you wondered how to share your faith with your child? This post View Post

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Sunday, a day of rest …

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Before this piece treads into the humorous and sarcastic, I want to give a disclaimer. There View Post

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Why Quiet Times are Difficult…Contest Winners!

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First, a little story. Tonight, I made a hearty pot of local kale and white bean soup for dinner. View Post

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Why Quiet Times are Difficult for Busy Moms: A confession and a contest

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Recently I talked about how you don't need to give excuses for yourself all the time. I'm getting View Post

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the hard thing about being a mom

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I feel like most people operate with a secret mentality that their job has one thing about it that View Post

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Part I: God Loves Mommy Ducks

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I am such a little kid at heart. Actually, being quite honest in many ways I'm not. I get annoyed by View Post

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How I Found Mr. Right

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  Disclaimer: This is a long post. I never write posts this long. But I PROMISE - it's worth View Post

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worry, and heaven, and C.S. Lewis

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There are things that become incredibly relevant when you are a mom, things that didn't mean as much View Post

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Dear Steven Curtis Chapman

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Dear Steven.Hi. We've known each other for a long time. We go way back. You probably remember that View Post

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literary analysis (are you excited!!?)

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Today I saw Ellen, a wonderful lady I know, in the Harris Teeter. At the end of the conversation she View Post

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worries, culture, and updates

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Where to start? I've received so many emails and phone calls demanding updates on my "no worries" View Post

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before 30

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You have probably heard of this thing where people list 30 things they want to do before they turn View Post

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No shortcuts

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I don't really think of myself as a cheater, or lazy. And truth be told, those aren't my weaknesses View Post

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I am no Corrie ten Boom…

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...And I have a broken cell phone to prove it. I will explain that in a minute. But first, it is View Post

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help wanted :-)

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First of all, a few notes. One. I am now completely, utterly confident that people who bring meals View Post

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The jogger, the Westin, baby Ty and me

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We welcomed Ty David into the world 2 1/2 weeks ago. He is healthy, sweet, and the spitting image of View Post

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Tailor-made troubles and hand-picked kids

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Do you know who Joni Erikson Tada is? My mom made us watch her bio video when we were kids, and View Post

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my favorite song

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Isn't it funny some of the moments that you remember exactly? For the life of us neither Todd nor I View Post

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a current events update, from someone very out of the loop

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Confession. I am horrible with current events. Horrible. I told Todd it would be genius if someone View Post

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Love and Lysol

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God speaks to us in different ways. In the old days God spoke through donkeys and whispers and View Post

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on love and worry

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I used to think love was nice. I remember watching “Bed of Roses” (which is probably a horribly made View Post

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Success and talents

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I don’t have it yet, and it’s starting to bother me. You know, the thing that I do, that puts me on View Post

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Praying the Promises of God

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This post is totally copied from some guy I heard on the radio. And I only heard about three and a View Post

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What we hope for our children

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It dawned on me recently how often verdicts are passed on your kid. Not like in an official way, but View Post

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more on death.

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I'm not a freak, I promise. I can't help it that I've been gifted.It's kind of like my sister. She View Post

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Finally, I watched it

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Confession. I have not actually read any of The Lord of the Rings. Additionally, until recently, View Post

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A Book Review and a 40-Day challenge

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Generally, I skim books. It's very obnoxious, but most books deserve it. After a twenty minute or so View Post

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i heart quotes

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Today I got the privilege of observing my friend Rachel in her A.P. Literature class. My grad class View Post

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Hi! I’m Jessica. Former English teacher turned homeschooling mom of three. ESTJ. iPhone addict (in recovery). Anxiety overcomer. Allergy mom (only slightly neurotic). Loved by God, and wife to Mr. Fix Anything. I run a mean 12-minute mile and can make just about anything dairy free. I’m glad you’re here! Read More >>>
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