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5 Spring Bliss List Items
Hello, tender friends! I’ll share the post about God tapping be on the shoulder next week because inspiration struck differently as the weather warmed up! The weather hit 70° here in Southwest Virginia on Tuesday. My body is rejoicing! I’ve soaked up my vitamin d the past 3 days as I pushed my Cubby around…
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A Friend’s Book Announcement!
Hello, tender friends! A dear friend of mine has released her book! Ok, it’s technically only released on Amazon Kindle, which I don’t have, so I’m debating between the regular hard copy but having to wait or figuring out Amazon Kindle. If you have any advice, I’m all ears! I just love this cover art…
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Time to Embrace Royalty
Hello, tender friends! Okay, I know that you’re all biblically literate and you got both of those right! What’s funny is that Paul made those statements in Romans approximately only one chapter apart from each other. How many sermons have you heard about how important it is to recognize your sinful nature? How many sermons…
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What God Told Me the Day I Got Engaged
Hello and happy belated Valentine’s day, tender friends! And yes, as I promised last year, Cub and I made homemade cards this year! Anyhow, as a follow-up to why I love that the men and women who attend night to shine receive crowns, I thought I’d share some of the biblical things I don’t understand…
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The Weekend Event More Important than Football
Hello, tender friends! As you may imagine, I don’t care that much about the Super bowl. Other than periodically checking the TV to make sure that sexualized women weren’t parading on the screen while Cubby and Anthony “watched” it, I mostly finished up our taxes. (“Watched” is in quotes because Cubby was much more interested…
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Why Decluttering Has Me Crying Happy Tears 😉
Believe me, this is worth waiting for the punch line. Sometime within the past year, the pastor included Deuteronomy 6: 4-9 in the sermon. (The fact that I remember this is significant because I’m not always the most attentive during sermons). Anthony was working with the kids in Sunday school that day, so I filled him…
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God Wants You to Love Yourselves
Hello, tender friends! I love this man’s body, mind and spirit. Yesterday morning at church, Anthony wrote down this message that he felt from the Lord: “God wants you to love yourselves.” Even though I didn’t hear it at that particular moment, I’ve actually gotten that message through decluttering over the past few weeks. I…
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You’re on Fire! Speech
Hello, tender friends! This is a copy of the speech I gave at the January meeting of my toastmasters group. I hope this description of my occasionally hapless foray into living abroad in Valencia in college for the first time entertains you! Here we go! I lugged my suitcase into my dorm foyer and obtained…
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Decluttering Makes Me Feel Closer to God
Hello, tender friends! While I’ve posted about decluttering before, I’m going much deeper now and starting to feel a spiritual shift. I know, I know, I was skeptical about Marie Kondo’s idea that tidying up could be “life-changing.” But after a few rounds of decluttering, my mood was elevated. Now I’m taking it farther than…
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Crafting and Noni are Holy Work?
Hello, tender friends! Cub and Anthony have made more noni because this Arctic blast means bigger snowmen for these two! They made snowmen and I made…earrings! Don’t mind Cub’ s face. He’s going through a phase in which he’ll only smile in certain photos. I’m wearing the pink and purple set in the photo. I…
tea and tenderness 