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16. A Season for Everything
There is an occasion for everything, and a time for every activity under heaven: a time to give birth and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a time to build; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace and a time to avoid embracing; a time to search and a time to count as lost; a time to keep and time to throw…
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God Made You for More
Because I’m a sucker for a theme, I’ve decided to start a blog series entitled “God Made You For More.” Women have, time and again, given up so much of themselves for things other than God’s goodness and glory. The enemy has used a million little things to distract us from what we were made to be, and it is time we stand up and say “no more”. Don’t you want to be used by the God of the universe for His purposes? If that idea doesn’t excite you, you will definitely not like this series! All I want is to do the work that God has put before me,…
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Dear Nursing (A Love Letter)
Dear Nursing, Why you gotta be like this? I kid. I love you. But you are hard and you make me crazy. I have tried in earnest to quit you because I thought that is what was best. I genuinely believe that God asked me to lay you down and walk away. I prayed and prayed that He would let me take you back because surely we are meant to be together. But sadly, thats not the case. Don’t get me wrong. I have a job. Two new jobs, in fact. In nursing! I’m going to be working shifts and learning new skills and walking with people through their health…
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Why I Am A Christian
It occurred to me that maybe some of you don’t know why I am a Christian. Some of you may not even know all that much about Christianity or why I would choose to get up early on a Sunday and spend 2 hours sitting in a pew. So rather than just jumping in to more things I suck at I thought I would backup and talk about how I got here. As most of you know, my dad is an Anglican Priest so I basically grew up at the church. I was homeschooled until High School so almost all of my friends were from church, I would go to…
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Things I Suck At: Dreaming
Now, this kind of feels disingenuous because let me tell you, as an enneagram 4 I have ZERO problems with dreaming. I can get very lost in dreams and ideas and creativity. So much so that to stop my brain from spinning I usually have to write out all my ideas and dreams into some kind of chart with specific strategies on how to accomplish them, lest I go insane. But when it comes to actually listening to dreams, being in tune with the Father and what He wants to accomplish through our dreams, I’m not very good. A lot of it comes from what I think is something we’ve…
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Things I Suck At: Purpose
I mentioned in another post that I have been really focused on purpose lately. I’ve felt completely restless and like I was being called to something, with zero clue as to what that something could be. So I started seeking out Christian resources on purpose in an attempt to maybe once and for all figure myself out. I started off with Annie F. Down’s 100 Days to Brave which is, you guessed it, a 100 day devotional. It was great and I recommend it, but it didn’t quite go deep enough. It did have some really great insights like listening to ideas that pop into your head because those ideas…
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Things I Suck At: A Journey
So this whole trying-to-figure-myself-and-my-God-out thing has been a long time coming. In fact, I think it started in the fall of 2017 when I started to have a pretty strong hunch that the baby I was growing was going to be of the female variety. I came to this conclusion after months of feeling the worst I have ever felt while pregnant. I was tired and nauseous all the time. I ate approximately 5 apples a day because it was all I wanted to eat and I couldn’t drink water because it was too “thin.” Milkshakes? They were fine. Life sustaining water? Hard pass. My two other pregnancies were good,…
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I’m Quitting Nursing.
Lately I’ve been really focused on purpose. How does what we do here on earth work towards God’s kingdom? How am I going to spend these short days that I have here, pursuing God’s glory? In this search, I started reading the book Made for This by Jennie Allen. One of the things Allen talks about is laying everything before the Lord, and being willing to follow Him anywhere. I felt so confident that I had done this. Over and over again I offered prayers of thanksgiving and devotion where I would say “I will go wherever you lead me Lord, everything I have is yours” and then in the…
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New Year, Same God
It is a brand new year, and you know what that means! We all have a renewed sense of self and are ready to take on new adventures, fully confident in who we are and what we have become! …..of course I’m kidding. Most likely, we have all decided that this will finally be our year. We are going to make real changes this time. It’s allllllll going to be different. Here is the thing about different. It’s not always good. Before you start listing all the ways in which you need to change to meet the new year, take a minute to list out the gifts and talents that…
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Exchanging Busyness for Holiness
I’ve had a bad week. One of those weeks where you seem to be so bad at absolutely everything you do that you wonder why God called you to get out of bed in the mornings. Oh right, because I have three little humans that I have to keep alive. These days I am a lot more focused on mommy-hood than nursing as I’m on mat leave from my casual position. And yet I am so much more busy now than I was when I was working. Moving from 2 kids to 3 definitely plays a big role in it my busyness, but I have also taken on so many other…
