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Mastercard Garden Reflections
Hello tender friends! Our garden regularly makes me cry the good kind of tears. As the season winds down, I’m getting nostalgic. Maybe you remember the Mastercard commercials from the late 90s. My nostalgia and remembering those commercials has inspired this: Seeds to plant for the next season-$120 A new hose and sprinkler – $90…
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Joy is Free
Hello, tender friends! Joy is simple, like a tulip. Joy is simple, like bare hands in dark soil. Joy is simple, like a belly laugh from a 3-year old. At the gas pump last Sunday morning, I relished Cub’s joy. While Anthony stood outside my car filling my tank, he ducked down so Cub couldn’t…
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Raising Up Righteousness: Proverbs 22:6
Hello tender friends! The window of time we have to mold our kids can be terrifying. Nobody wants their kid to end up a jerk, and so many experiences when kids are young create lifelong preferences. The first time I walked into the church where Anthony and I met and got married, I took a…
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Just Call Me the Ant!
Hello tender friends! Remember the fable of the ant and the grasshopper? Nobody wants to be a grasshopper. Spending two hours of the morning harvesting okra and tomatoes may not be everyone’s idea of a good time, but fortunately it’s mine! Being out in the early morning light while the ground is still wet with…
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Famous in My Father’s Eyes
Hello tender friends! I’m sorry this post is a day late. Anthony worked all weekend. So we spent the day at home yesterday just enjoying the time together since we hadn’t seen each other since Thursday. (It was also our 7-year anniversary, but we were a little too tuckered out to do anything). So let’s…
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Who Are You Blossoming For?
Hello tender friends! Who are you blossoming for? (I wrote this post with single women in mind because I’d said I would many posts ago. I’ve actually recently been applying these lessons to a very different set of circumstances, and I’ll write about those next week). I played the comparison game in my younger years,…
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When God Said I Was Already Healed
Hello, tender friends! What are you calling in to being? Proverbs tells us that the power of life and death is in the tongue. God himself brought the universe into existence with the word. The power of language is evident in the Bible. What are you speaking over yourself? What may have been spoken over…
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Bridal Shower Bliss+Real Talk
Hello tender friends! We had a great time at my friend Grayson’s bridal shower this weekend! Good food, good friends, and good wishes for the future. (I’m on the far right in the green floral dress). Every time we attend a wedding, Anthony and I take off our rings during the ceremony and slip them…
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Celebrating Success!
Hello, tender friends! We peered into the chicken coop. Cub shouted, “Hooray!” Anthony and I picked him up and twirled him around. “We did it!” I said to Anthony. I’ll never forget that family moment we had when we realized two of our chickens laid their first eggs! (Sorry about the pictures being so pixelated…it’s…
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7 Strategies for Increasing Emotional Resilience
Hello, tender friends! We don’t need to live enslaved to our emotions, but I didn’t know how to break free for for far too long. I spent years praying that God would reveal the desires of my own heart to me. Years. I was so disconnected from myself that I didn’t even know what would…
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