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A Girl in the Middle.

I teach & encourage Christian women to find God's will & live joyfully through seasons of disappointment in life and marriage.

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Don’t put God first on your list!

Is God First on Your List? Show of hands, how many of us have made lists with the intention of putting our day in order and starting with, “God First?” (raises hand) It was always a mess of a list no matter how neatly it was written.  There’s where my troubles started. I’m thankful for a...

Listening for Mom’s Voice

Phone Home Remember my gratitude of hot baths recently? Yeah, it’s not so luxurious  when your smart-phone jumps in. Last week that’s exactly what happened. Jan. 15th, sprinting upstairs to soothe myself in hot water w/a good book before “any more” did me in. Grab my book with my phone disguised as the back cover...

A week of not-Fridays

Friday not Friday January 14, 2016  Have you had weeks where you were a day ahead of yourself? My Tuesday was Monday, and today was Friday but thankfully not  a Monday, because, well– I can’t even imagine! Top 10 mondayisms of Thursday: Hidden and now stale bread is great– for  birds and squirrels My resourceful son will...

Note taking

Today’s Lesson January 13, 2016 The moments which grab my heart with the most might are almost always unexpected. Take today, for instance. Who knows what important and enlightening thing I was saying to my youngest while peering over his shoulder to see the computer screen when I noticed his notes. These were not notes required of...

Patience interrupted!

InTErRuPtIOnS! January 12, 2016 Tonight I have to stop. Stop thinking. Stop typing. Stop sitting. Stop everything. And I’ll thank the Lord for it, because I’m grateful to have my family all around me… even when it means I don’t get to finish my thoughts. But the fruit of the spirit is love, and joy,...

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He calmed the storm to a

whisper, and the waves of the

sea were hushed.

Psalm 107:29

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