Category Archives: nurturing my spirit

how to trust in the mess

Sometimes, life gets really messy before it gets any better. We don’t like things to be untidy, do we?  When life’s all disorganized – we don’t know if we’re coming or going and what is the point? Life has its messy moments however, none of us remains untouched long.  Challenges, difficulties will eventually find their...

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The Voice of Truth speaks out

We can be women of God and still believe lies… We can share in the beauty of being His, yet still speak ugly about ourselves, …or others.  Our way out?  The Voice of Truth. *** Today I’m over at Sisters in Bloom sharing on How to Speak Beauty, Not Ugly. For there’s this voice-in-our-heads taking room in...

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the community you need as a woman {finale} :: three key relationships

I tend to dig into a subject, spill it all out at once… This week has been about community, of female relationships and their importance in our lives.  I hope you know this isn’t replacing or dismissing other key connections such as God or our husbands if we’re married.  Those hold their own. We began...

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the community you need as a woman {part two}

We need this, though we may reject it:  a circle of community. Along with being hard-wired by an intelligent God for relationship with Him, we humans also have a need for relationship with one another.  As women, we seek those female friendships out from the time we’re little girls. Then little girls become big girls...

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the community you need as a woman {part one}

Oh, yes.  We all know the quote well and most likely have referred to it sometime in our lives. “No man is an island.”   When and how this quote originated isn’t important as much as the significance.  Deep in our souls we believe fully of the need for friendships, for connection. I’m convinced that...

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what I love today :: a note to a reader

  dear reader… you wrote in after I spilled words yesterday.  words of life I called it and rehearsed them all day long. I’m nervous…leaf-shaking, heart-trembling kind about the gains in my life, tremendous opportunities.  how He’s moving and leading and am I really prepared? but you?  sweet sister…you wrote to me of the loss in...

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