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Strategies for Finding Peace When Swimsuit Season Approaches [Grace in the Mess of Body Image]
Spring is such a lovely season, but it harbors a time of insecurity for many. During this time of year, the inevitable campaign to “look good” grows strong. The extra pounds and flabby abs were easier to hide under the multiple layers worn in winter. Spandex and “cinching up the belt” no longer suffice with shorts and…
Three Proven Steps To Follow When Failure Looms Large [Grace Overcomes]
If you’ve read much of anything I’ve written, you know I fail regularly in living a righteous life. I try to modify my behavior: be less critical, speak softer, exercise regularly, be in the Word more, and be gracious and merciful, loving and kind, and I fall short … every single time! And from comments…
How To Hold On When the Little Messes Grow Too Big [Despair]
Yesterday, motherhood was celebrated. Fabulous tributes given to amazing mothers. It felt good. It felt right. But today … today is back to the reality of our days. And sometimes that reality seems like one not worth celebrating. Sneaking a peak into my world, you’d see not a supermom, but a harried mom. Not an organized, well-put-together Proverbs 31…
Three Steps To Take When Nothing Makes Sense
What do we do with a child who can’t speak and will never live independently? What do we do with those babies we lost before our lips ever touched their velvety soft heads? What do we do with a horribly abusive childhood: parents who acted like enemies, neighbors who stole innocence, bullies who ridiculed and berated? What…
What Really Matters (the Struggle)
My eyes shot to my inbox yet again. Still nothing. No one responding to my words of encouragement. Thoughts of worthlessness invaded my mind: Who am I kidding, thinking I can do this thing called writing. Couching it in devotional terms or Godly speak doesn’t make it any more likely. You’re not cut out for it. Just…
How To Live as a Redeemed Child
Easter Sunday has once again come and gone. The cross is empty. The passion complete. The Lord is risen! He is risen indeed, alleluia! Now what? How do we live in the aftermath of the resurrection? What does it look like to live as a redeemed child? Maybe it’s easier to point to what it…
A Life You Don’t Want To Miss (Savor Revisited)
This year I set out to savor my days. To embrace and delight in each gift of a new sunrise. Imperfect Progress But it’s easy to get bogged down in the day-to-day (focusing on limitations, monotony, and tough circumstances) and begin to just get by. Going about the days with little passion and purpose. This isn’t the…
The Most Important Lesson for Life
Many accounts in the Bible fascinate me. Some because they are exciting and full of adventure and action. But more often because I can relate to one or more of the participants. Every book of the Bible chronicles real-life. I can’t remember a single biblical man or woman where their life began wonderfully, continued with…
Where Does Your Hope Rest?
“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.” C. S. Lewis / “Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis” (2006) My family traveled through this past week with cricks in our necks. Well at least a couple of us did. Poor Zachary and Rachel spent…
When You Stumble in Your Christian Walk [Are You a Hypocrite?]
There are parts of many days when I feel a bit like a hypocrite. As in someone who is not acting in accordance to who they profess to be. I profess in the hope of Christ yet at times feel hopeless. I list daily joy dares (thanks to Ann Voskamp for the inspiration) but dissolve in…
Hello, I'm Julie, an imperfect wife and mother of four. Life in this broken world is not always easy. Yet, joy can be found in each day through the grace and mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I find it's easy for our day's blessings to get lost in its happenings. But God's "mercies never end" (Lamentations 3:22) and His "grace is sufficient" (2 Corinthians 12:9).
May the posts and pages on this site offer you a measure of peace and encouragement.
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