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i deserve this

I Deserve This

May 9, 2016

Life can throw us all not just one, but sometimes a number of curve balls. One of those for my husband and I was a diagnosis of dual infertility. Leading up to that moment, and even past the blessing of adoption, I went through a series of rises and falls in my emotions. You name […]

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When Your Soul Becomes A Desert

May 2, 2016

I used to write just as much as I breathed—or at least that’s what it felt like. I would go to bed with my next blog post in mind. I would often find myself scribbling notes across a beat up notebook when something came to mind. Blogging was my small corner of the world that […]

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Love of a Lifetime

April 25, 2016

Love of a Lifetime And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. – Ephesians 5:2 In June my parents will celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. It fills me with so much pride (not the bad kind) to be the daughter of such […]

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erika patterson

Blessed Assurance …These Kids Can’t be Mine!

April 18, 2016

I know we’ve all been there. Maybe you are there right now. I go there just about every other week—to that place where I believe every aspect of my life must be PERFECT! Per.fect. PERFECT, I SAY! And of course, it’s not. The house: Why doesn’t my house look like Pottery Barn catalogs? How did […]

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go there with compassion

Go There With Compassion

April 11, 2016

This devotion was written by Suella Jones. It was an unusual sight even in the early 1950’s—a mother and her children walked along the country dirt road a few miles from the small town where they lived carrying a pot filled with home raised, home cooked vegetables. Two of the older children each had a […]

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Set Free to Live Free

April 4, 2016

Romans. I love reading Romans. The whole book is a rich assembly of deep theology and beautiful explanations of God’s redemptive plan for us. But Romans can be hard to digest in large quantities. It’s like eating steak and baked potato for every meal, followed by a peanut butter milkshake—so good, but so heavy. Reading […]

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Jesus Loves Me This I Know, For the Bible Tells Me So

March 28, 2016

These words—simple enough for a children’s song, yet filled with the truths that we base our lives on! How often do we gloss over these truths? In our studies, in our times with God, we jump right past these elementary truths in search of a new nugget to feed our faith. Yet these truths are […]

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A Watering Cup of Grace & Encouraging Cup of Goodness

March 21, 2016

This story of Redemption is from the heart of Amy Woody, Missions Ministry Assistant at Warren Baptist Church When I was a little girl I was always taught right from wrong. As I grew up, life would knock me so far down that anyway up looked good. I am a walking witness that we are […]

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My Story of Redemption

March 14, 2016

My life before God redeemed me was empty. It was as though there was something missing. My life was full of things to do, people and stuff but deep down in the depths of my soul there was this unsettling feeling of sadness. Now at the time, I would not have articulated it that way, […]

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The Image

March 7, 2016

This devotion was written by Linda Yorio I went to lunch at one of those restaurants that has a special menu offering, “pick two”. This means you can choose two items from a variety of soups, salads, and sandwiches for a set price. The picture at the top of the menu looked really good to […]

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