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Archives for January 2017

When Your Kid is…Different

January 29, 2017 By Tara Johnson Leave a Comment

Sometimes, Moms just know. They know when all isn’t as it should be. When the other three year olds are able to count to ten but their child can’t articulate “one”, “two” or “three”. Moms know when it’s strange that their three old son can’t ask for a specific food when he’s hungry, but instead opens his mouth and yells, “Eat!” She knows that something is wrong when her adorable little boy is three and she’s still not heard him say his own name. She Read More

Filed Under: Family Life, Uncategorized Tagged With: children, Christian living, cognitive therapy, delay, God, kids, Love, parenting, special needs, Special needs kids, speech therapy

The Mean Stepsister

January 23, 2017 By Tara Johnson Leave a Comment

  Redemption is a beautiful thing. There is something so poignant, something almost sweeping and, dare I say, romantic about someone with power and position plucking a nobody from the crowd and claiming them as their own. Perhaps that’s why I’ve so frequently heard the Gospel compared to a fairy tale story. A king sweeping the lonely girl away to a land where all her dreams come true. Not long ago, I heard someone compare what God has done to the story of Cinderella. I Read More

Filed Under: Beyond What We Can Imagine, Uncategorized Tagged With: broken, cinderella, fairy tale, God's love, good news, gospel, Jesus, redemption, saved, stepsister, unlovable

Drowning out Silence

January 17, 2017 By Tara Johnson Leave a Comment

Noise can be a drug. It’s a numbing anesthesia, insulating us from pain and reality, a distraction that keeps us from looking too deeply at what haunts us most. We do the same with food, with shopping and debit cards, with possessions and degrees, with sex and alcohol, power, possessions, money, relationships, children…yet the more I consider the bombastic nature of our society, the more I believe noise has become the preferred drug of choice. By noise I don’t mean only auditory transmission, but sensory Read More

Filed Under: Uncategorized, Walking with God Tagged With: Be still, Be still and know I am God, busyness, distraction, God's presence, healing, Jesus, learning to rest, noise, quiet, silence, stillness, wounds

Lessons Learned in His Presence

January 8, 2017 By Tara Johnson Leave a Comment

Last week I told you my word for the year was presence. I’ve become desperate to release the juggling, the striving, running and cistern-filling that never actually fills. I yearn for Jesus’ presence…to sit at His feet. To learn and love and live. I don’t want to care about what each day brings as long as I can journey through each day with Him. I thought my biggest obstacle to sitting in His presence would be learning to rest. For the past few years, I Read More

Filed Under: Uncategorized, Walking with God Tagged With: at Jesus feet, divine interruption, God's presence, humble, interrupted by God, Jesus, serving others

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Tara JohnsonTara Johnson is a writer, singer, speaker and passionate lover of stories. Tara uses fiction, nonfiction, song and laughter to share her testimony of how God led her into freedom after spending years living shackled to the expectations of others. She lives in central Arkansas with her husband and children.

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