The Life We Never Expected Review

Imagine attending a beautiful dinner party with a group of friends. Your host appears with gifts for each of you. They’re small tennis ball shaped orbs wrapped delicately with a bow on top. As each of your friends opens their gift, they light up in delight at a delicious chocolate orange. Twenty perfectly segmented slices…

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Broken, Yet Free. Working on Being Unashamed

Unashamed

Over the past five years, my husband and I have been on a journey of healing from brokenness. It’s amazing how you can accept the forgiveness of God, and yet remain ashamed of who you were. I guess that’s not really accepting forgiveness then is it? Believing that God’s grace is sufficient means clothing yourself…

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101 Reasons Every Mom Should Be a Reader

I remember when I was graduating from high school with an unlimited amount of opportunities in front of me. Oh the Places You Will Go resounded in my ears, and dreams were mine for the taking. Fast forward a couple of years and I was married, graduating from college, and pregnant with my first. I chose…

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Can Fairy Tales Really Foster Morality?

I recently heard Andrew Pudewa speak about Fairy Tales and the Moral Imagination. It was a curious topic for me because I wasn’t sure that fairy tales really had anything to do with morals. Can fantasy really cultivate right living in reality? Why does this idea strike me as so strange? Is it because I’ve…

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10 Books that have Movies Worth Watching

If you’ve read my blog for a while, you’ll know that I love all kinds of books. If you’ve been to my house, you’ll know that the walls are being held up with bookshelves! I’m an avid reader, collector, and lover of great books. Even though I’m fond of print, I do, however, enjoy movies…

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