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Everyday Life

Divine Appointments

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December 22, 2011

Greetings favored woman of God! The Lord is with you!!    Luke 1:28    NLT Wow. Now THERE is a divine appointment. What precious words. Priceless. Timeless. Life Changing. Can you just imagine Mary’s first response to those words? As a woman we sometimes yearn for words of blessing and affirmation to fall upon our [...]

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Poop Potential

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November 21, 2011

Everyone loves the story of the attitude experiment between the 2 little boys. One was put in a playroom filled with wonderful toys and gadgets. The little boy was very pleased for short while but before long was complaining about how slow one toy was or how crummy the other worked. He whined about the [...]

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Dragon Slaying Mamma

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November 16, 2011

Thanksgiving is next week and my refrigerator is bare. I really need to go to the grocery store today. My furniture is dusty and my wood floors are dull. I really need to clean my house today. My best friend has a birthday coming up. I need to go shopping for cards. I REALLY need [...]

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Imagine Me–Under a Broom Tree

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November 6, 2011

Discouragement comes at the strangest times. I am a person so un-prone to down days that I am absolutely caught off guard when one attacks. This morning, I dragged myself out of bed in spite of the fact that “Fall Forward” gave me an extra hour of sleep time, I still dragged. My husband and [...]

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Things I Love about Leaving Home

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October 31, 2011

It has taken me a few days of wallowing in my home to be able to pen this post. Although it was on my heart when I wrote that last one, I just had to have a few days to get my strength back. Strength that I only get from my home and family. Honey [...]

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10 Things I Prayed for My Children and Grandchildren Today

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September 22, 2011

Prayers for my Family Father God, in the sweet name of Jesus; in the presence of The Father, The Son and by the Power of the Holy Spirit, I bring my children and grandchildren before your throne, again, today. 1) I praise you and thank you that each one has received Jesus as their Lord [...]

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Lessons Learned in a Crash and Burn

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August 26, 2011

There are times in life when heartbreak hits so hard, so fast, so unexpected–your breath leaves your body and the sound of your own tears is all that is going on in the entire universe. Sometimes the thing that breaks your heart is something everybody understands. The death of a loved one. A gut sucking [...]

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Born to Bloom

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August 9, 2011

Whoo Hoo! I am home! For 11 days My next trip takes me off to Grand Rapids, Mi to pray and plan and party with the amazing team of women who are hosting our upcoming “Imagine me…Set Free” Woman’s Conference on October 7 and 8th. We are planning for 400 women! Do you want to [...]

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I have nothing–except…..

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July 8, 2011

It has been a super busy week. Take a day away and I’m lost. The Book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3 reminds us that there is a season for everything. I have been in a season of very wonderful things, mixed with some very complicated things. A season of new territory in ministry along with some [...]

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Am I “leaning into change” or just drooping over it?

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June 30, 2011

I am surrounded by CHANGE PAIN. This past week has made me DROOP with discussions about CHANGE. New Paradigms..blah, blah, blah….. New ways of thinking..blah, blah, blah….. The OLD is gone the NEW has come…blah, blah, blah…… One discussion involved my Bible study group, a group of WAY YOUNG CUTIES who somehow manage to make [...]

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Life Lessons Learned in a Sunflower Maze

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June 1, 2011

Adventure and surprise waited around every tick of the clock throughout our Memorial Day Weekend. If you have read my past couple of Living Free post you have seen that I had a plan for last weekend. A plan to PLOP! But God–had another plan. That happens. His plan is often a bit different from ours and [...]

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A time to PLOP!

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May 23, 2011

I PLOPPED into my Prayer Chair this morning. Are you familiar with “PLOPPING” verses “sitting”. You may need to be. PLOPPING makes more of an impact, more of a statement. It is more intentional and has more purpose behind it. PLOPPING has the purpose of STAYING in the placed plopped for a substantial period of [...]

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Could I have a dash of Salt on my Ice Cream Sundae?

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March 16, 2011

I heard from my young friends that last weeks “Twirty Girls” meeting lasted until well past 1am! These young women are serious about chewing on some tough issues. I left last night at 10:30 and they were still in sweet conversation. My brain, on the other hand, was deep fried!! Our meeting last night took [...]

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Valentines Truth EVERY Woman Must Understand

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February 14, 2011

These are men’s rules! Please note.. these are all numbered “1 ” ON PURPOSE! 1. Men are NOT mind readers. 1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You’re a big girl. If it’s up, put it down.. We need it up, you need it down. You don’t hear us complaining about you leaving it down. [...]

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She Did What She Could.

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February 12, 2011

This phrase has been the buzzword around our ministry all week as we prepared for our annual Valentines Event. This year it was called “Girls Night Out” (clever huh?) and our keynote speaker was the bundle of joy and energy, Elisa Morgan. If you haven’t heard her share, you need to get to her website [...]

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Some Days are Diamonds (Some Days are Stones)

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February 2, 2011

My Mom has always said that. I think she got it from this old country music song. Listen to it as you read. It came to my mind this morning when I woke up on the “Stoney” side of attitude. I had a sweet conversation yesterday with a ministry sister who was having a very [...]

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