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- Joy for 2015 and Beyond
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- Pink Socks and Dust Bunnies
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- The Performance Bug and Stinky Oysters
- Comfortable with Uncomfortable
- Where I Get My Characters: Quirks, Stalking and More
- Stuck on a Roller Coaster…But Not Moving
- No Fast Passes Allowed
- Concrete Heart
- The Fingerprint
- Sour Fruit
- Bless Her Heart: Code Words and Torn Labels
- Oxygen Masks
- Untied Shoelaces: Insecurity’s Scream
- Euphoria in a Rice Field…I Think Not
- The Legacy of…Today: Dead Man Walking
- Please Welcome Guest Blogger…Nancy McAllister and the Amazing Greta Oto Butterfly!
- But I Have This Treasure
- A Scrapping Momma…More Than Just a Hiding Place
- Selfie People, Selfie World
- December’s Songbird: How To Praise When Life Gets Hard
- The Fishbowl, the Glass house and Other Annoyingly Transparent Cages: The Life of the Preacher’s Kid
- Stuck in Second
- The Preacher’s Kids Part 2: Don’t Kill the Guppies
- How to Help Your Preacher’s Kid Part 3: Feed Those Guppies
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
- The Apology Letter: The Day I Learned to Stop Being Dr. Phil
- Stop It!
- There’s No Pit So Deep…
- Caffeinated Spirituality
- A Special Father’s Day gift from me to you!
- Running for the Toy Aisle
- Caged
- How To Handle Critics While Raising Your Strong-Willed Child
- Find the Humor
- Apple Versus Apples: An Open Letter To Myself
- Life in the Ministry Trenches: The Pastor’s Wife Part 1
- My Review of “Hiding in the Light” by Rifqa Bary
- Life in the Ministry Trenches: the Pastor’s Wife Part 2
- The Broken Piano
- Welcome my guest Linda Miller!
- How Charlotte Elliott Caught My Attention
- Welcome back my guest Linda Tracy Miller!
- Surviving Your Storm…Athlete in Training
- My Emmaus Road: What To Do In the Waiting
- Some final thoughts from the lovely Linda Tracy Miller!
- To Do or To Be…That Is The Question
- The Forgetting: Learning to Forgive…and Forget
- A Wounded Shepherd: When Pastors Suffer With Depression
- When The Makeup Runs
- Unchained: Breaking Free from the Mindset of Slavery, Part 1
- Unchained: Breaking Free From the Slavery Mindset, Part Two
- What I’ve Learned Living with Gastroparesis
- Sippy Cups: When It Seems God Doesn’t Care
- The BIG question
- The Little Girl from the Land of Gray
- Fleas and…Thanksgiving?
- The Obscure Thanksgiving List: Banana Pudding, Spanx and Tweezers…Oh my!
- Buddy the Elf Hits Walmart
- Wonder
- The Dishwasher Repairman
- Contest and Giveaway!
- The Fascinating Story of “O Holy Night”
- Holding Jesus
- What Wisdom Is Not
- Decision Making 101: Burning Bushes
- “Dear Shane, I’m your biggest fan…”
- Math, Tears and the Whys of Life
- Radical Love, Radical Forgiveness
- Impressions
- The Married Couple
- Embracing Inadequacy: The 300s.
- An Open Letter from a Recovering People Pleaser
- Homeschooling: The Good, the Bad & the Funny…5 Things No One Told Me
- Worry Squashing: How a Princess Can Get Rid of the Peas Under Her Mattress for Good
- Is Your Heart Stamped ‘Condemned’?
- Plot Twist!
- Taking the Anger Out of Interruptions
- The Little White Pill
- Unquenchable: The 2016 Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference
- 5 Ways to Bust Up Homeschool Blues
- False Evidence Appearing Real: When the Lawnmower Stole My Mother
- The Impersonator
- The Sidewalk
- When Mother’s Day is Painful
- The Faith Run
- The Heart Beat
- Finding a Voice: When God Changes the Plan
- Books are Not My Babies…and Other “Idol” Chatter
- A Father’s Love: Monster Chasers and Hallway Protectors
- Writing and Living From Your Scars
- The Redemption of Kip
- Battered Bluebirds: How to Handle Lying Emotions
- Why I Gave Up Talking Politics on Social Media
- Lie Number #1: God’s Main Concern is My Happiness
- Lie #2: If my life were different, I would be different.
- Lie #3: “I’m Worthless” and Other Labels
- Lie #4: God is not really enough.
- A Writer’s Prayer
- Lie #5: Approval Means I’m Loved
- The Boy in 22 F: When There are No Answers
- “Buzz Lightyear Did It”, “I Can’t Help the Way I Am” and Other Ways We Stay Stuck
- Hot Air Balloons, Fence Lines and Lies: Why does God Have Rules?
- Disney Theology
- The One Christian Cliché I’ve Tossed for Good
- The Window Washer: Fear-Defying Faith
- What’s Your Passion? Living for the Things That Matter
- Sippy Cups: When It Seems God Doesn’t Care
- Hanging Out with God: The Football
- Moving Down Alto Side: The Thankfulness Perspective
- How Miss Perfection Stole Christmas
- It Must be God’s Will…Really???
- The Dishwasher Repairman
- The Innkeeper
- The word for 2017 is…
- Lessons Learned in His Presence
- Drowning out Silence
- The Mean Stepsister
- When Your Kid is…Different
- Pursuing Dreams
- 5 Tips for Handling Criticism While Raising Your Strong-Willed Child
- White Space
- Jesus Wasn’t Calling: How I Learned to Walk Away from Perfectionism and Self-Inflicted Martyrdom
- Living Like Sugar
- An Open Letter from a Recovering People-Pleaser
- Rods and Staffs
- The Seeing Blind
- The Storm
- But I Have This Treasure
- Raising a Wild Child Without Losing Your Mind
- The Civil War, Messy People and Jesus: Why I Write
- Amazon Customer Reviews on the Bible: Putting Criticism into Perspective
- Learning Joy in Failure
- “To Do” or “To Be”?: Exchanging Checklists for God’s Presence
- Trolls on the Bridge: How to Keep Negative Feedback from Shredding Your Heart
- When Life Hands You…Wigs
- Stories from the Sea: Never Hide Your Scars
- Butterfingers: Interruptions & Learning How to Be a Servant
- Visiting Fox 16 News
- The Rodeo Clown: Learning to Be Seen
- The Thief: The Problem with Comparing
- When You Can’t See God
- The Broken Piano
- Lessons from the Water Park: What is Agape Love?
- Game-Changing Prayers
- Mouths and Hearts
- What I Carried Back from the United Kingdom: Angeles
- Give Way
- Las Vegas and God
- An Open Letter to My Girls: Here’s What to Look For When You Date
- A Word for People Pleasers
- The 30 Day Attitude Challenge
- The Power of Pronouns
- Cover reveal…
- Fleas and . . . Thanksgiving?
- The Bell Ringer
- Misconduct and Allegations: The Problem We All Have in Common
- The Widow of the Nativity: Anna
- The Angel
- When Christmas Plans Fall Apart: What We Can Learn From the Chaos
- Holding Jesus
- My 2018 Word of the Year
- Palms Up
- The Redemption of Kip
- The Boy in 22F: When There are No Answers
- The Problem with Perfectionism: Conditional Love
- When the Wind and Waves Won’t Obey
- The Little Girl from the Land of Gray
- What Exactly is “Perfect Love”?
- My Emmaus Road: What to Do in the Waiting
- White Space
- The Broken Phone
- Love and Like: When Agape Love is Hard
- The Broken Piano
- Broken But Never Worthless
- Fear is a Liar
- Another Christian Cliche: God’s Strongest Soldier
- Charlotte Elliott: Just As I Am
- Counterfeit: The Art of a Con
- The Underground Railroad and God’s Navigation System
- I Have This Treasure
- The Rescue: A True Story
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