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Aligning Our Wills with God’s

April 15, 2022 By Tim Gavin Leave a Comment

My fondest memories of my father focus on the times we worked together. My father knew how to fix everything

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: Good Friday, Holy Week, Jesus Christ, parents

God’s Lesson on Boundaries

November 15, 2019 By Emily Rutledge 5 Comments

A few weeks ago I was diagnosed with shingles. The week before that I had strep throat. A few weeks before that my children started a new school year and the church program year began. A few weeks before that my mother died of dementia.I’m 35.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: parents, self-care, sickness

I love you. Thank you.

September 27, 2019 By Sarah Carr 2 Comments

They sit in their carseats, next to one another holding hands. The palest caucasion skin of anyone in the family, enfolding the brown hand of his Hispanic little brother. “Are they both yours?” The woman meeting us for the first time asks. “Yes,” I reply, but she wants more. “How did you get that black haired one?” “Same way I got the blond haired one.”

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Filed Under: Parenting, Prayer Tagged With: foster parent, motherhood, parents, Prayer, siblings, young children

Seeing ourselves in picture books

July 3, 2019 By Miriam McKenney 2 Comments

Picture books can help you explore diversity with your kids. How do we know that we belong in the world? Seeing ourselves in books is a vital way to learn that we’re all beautiful in the eyes of our creator.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: books, bookstores, diversity, kids, librarians, libraries, library, parents, picture books, reading

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