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5 Simple and Effective Ways to Improve Your Daily Motivation

With the new year comes new habits and new motivation. Last year I had a lot of plans that I had written down, and while I was being very disciplined about implementing them, life happened. In fact my life changed dramatically within the first month of the new year, last year. Now I am just […]

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Grace is the Cure

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” – James 4:6 Grace is the cure for bitterness. Grace is the cure for jealousy. Grace is the cure for anger, resentment, and hurt. Grace is the cure for all of the gaps in our life. Grace […]

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Advent Day 22: He Is Patient

If there is one thing I’ve learned about God through the birth of Jesus it’s that God is patient. Often the thing that can cause us to stumble is to feel like God is urgently pushing us forward, or that something needs to be done right now. I think we definitely need to make sure […]

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Advent Day 21: He Came to Share the Good News

I think Christmas season can be full of wonderful, and not so wonderful, distractions. From cookies, to Christmas lights, to family time, to spending way to long Christmas shopping, we can often lose sight of the true reason for the season. But not only the good things we get to enjoy this time of year […]

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Advent Day 20: He Gives Us Hope

There was a point in my walk where I had turned away from Jesus. I grew up feeling indifferent towards God, but then gave my life over to him when I was 19 years old after I had a serious car accident. Three months later I declared I no longer believed in Jesus. Several years […]

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Advent Day 19: He Helps Us to Forgive

Often around Christmas time we can be reminded of offenses made by people who are in our lives, or we are reminded of the people who are no longer in our lives because of offenses that were made and never resolved. Let’s be real for a moment, sometimes Christmas is more difficult than we would […]

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Advent Day 18: He Gives Us Strength

The beginning of 2016 was heartbreaking. It was a difficult time and sometimes there were simply no words for what was happening. I wanted so desperately for someone to “fix” what was going on, but it was in that moment I realized there was no one that could fix it, but my belief in Jesus […]

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Advent Day 17: Repentance Prepares Our Heart

This advent season I am remembering my imperfections because they are what keep me grounded in The Lord. In 2 Corinthians 12:9 it says God’s strength is made perfect in our weakness. Sometimes God’s grace gives us the strength to recognize our weakness, and to find healing in spite of them. Unfortunately it’s difficult to […]

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Advent Day 16: He Gave So We Can Give

My son was Charlie Brown in his school play “Merry Christmas Charlie Brown.” One of his first lines was that it was almost Christmas and it just didn’t feel like Christmas. I’m sure we’ve all seen the Charlie Brown Christmas special and how Charlie Brown was not a fan of all the commercialism surrounding the […]

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Advent Day 15: He Gives Us a Garland for Ashes

The other day I was sitting with my husband on the couch staring out the window at the small snowflakes falling to the ground, and I told him I felt depressed and I didn’t know why. With life sometimes we just get depressed and we don’t know why. Life isn’t always about the happy, or […]

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