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When Holy Week Feels Anything But Holy

When Holy Week Feels Anything But Holy

Good Friday.  The day Jesus paid it all.  Literally.  Everything I owed. Everything you owed.  It was messy and brutal and devastating and He paid it. Romans 5:8 “But God shows His love for us that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” I’ve […]

Look Up

It was late.  Well past dark.  I was out picking up milk/returning a movie/whatever other errand I could run with exactly zero kids in tow after 9:00 pm.  I wonder, exhausted, where did the day go?  All those minutes and hours and seconds, gone.  Did I see […]

Insecurity

I know, I know, definitely not an original topic for a gal to write about. But the thing is, there is a reason why we see it so often. It is because we feel it so often. Every single human being suffers at some point from […]