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December 5, 2016
Management Training and Professional Development for Military Spouses is Easy and Free at Fort Bliss
My job as the Director of Family Ministries at First Presbyterian Church requires a certain degree of management skills. I am directly responsible for 5 employees, 2 interns, and over 50 volunteers. This is not a skill that comes naturally to me, nor is it one I picked up in school (BA in English and […]
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Finding Peace in a Broken World
There are times in life where all I want to do is run. But God says be still. During the holidays there are blaring inconsistencies of peace and war, giving and selfishness, love and loneliness, a St. Nicholas who throws punches, and a child who was born to die. Finding joy and keeping a heart […]
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November 27, 2016
Steps to Relieving Stress & Anxiety
The holidays have begun and with them the busyness and stress of trying to make everything perfect. A little secret I’m still trying to live into: it doesn’t have to be perfect. I’m forever working on how to find calm. Finding quiet space in the midst of the normal is hard enough but add to it […]
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November 22, 2016
Thoughts on Gratitude, Thanksgiving, Service, and Shopping
For the last few years, my news feed during November has been full of gratitude. Every day friends would share something they are grateful for. It was 30 Days of Gratitude that somewhere along the lines even launched into 365 days of gratitude. Like anything on social media, there was a myriad of opinion pieces […]
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November 9, 2016
What The Election & Losing Gracefully Looks Like For Our Daughters
My children stayed up through most of the election but did not make it to the final-results. When I woke my oldest daughter up her first question was, “Who won?” “Trump.” “I don’t want to get out of bed, the world just ended.” She had buried her head in her pillow and I could barely […]
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October 25, 2016
People Of The Lie
Reading people is not my strength. In fact, I tend to take people at face value, or even with the belief that when things aren’t feeling quite right they are just having an off day. Potential goodness is something everyone possesses. To counteract this I put people in my life with an innate sense of […]
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August 1, 2016
Bridging the Communication Gap in Military Marriages
Deployments send two people in two very different directions. It is not just the time and geography that separate us. People change throughout the course of a year and unshared experiences send you in two very different directions. Corie Weathers captures this struggle in her new book Sacred Spaces. Elva Resa Publishing and Weathers sent me a […]
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June 6, 2016
Saying Goodbye – Children’s Sermon
This time of year brings about lots of goodbyes. Neighbors are moving, school is ending for the summer, and if you are in the military it is lovingly referred to as PCS season (which basically means half of everyone you know is packing up and moving, possibly even you). Following is the script from the […]
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June 1, 2016
Song of Silence – A Calling and an Identity
I don’t know about you, but I get pretty tied up in my profession. It is a big part of who I am. For a long time, I struggled with my calling. I let other voices tell me that Pastoral Ministry was not an appropriate calling for a woman, that somehow I was misunderstanding the call […]
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May 28, 2016
When People are Mean
School is so close to being over. Perhaps it’s the warmer days or having completed the STARR test, whatever the reason the mean girls have gotten meaner. Bullies don’t just hurt one. Their actions have multiple victims. They divide a community and destroy the atmosphere, whether it be an academic one or club of some […]
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