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When Life Looks Nothing Like You Thought

When Life Looks Nothing Like You Thought

You know those moments in life that turn into stakes crushed into the ground of the path you’ve been walking; the moments that completely change you, change your life’s plan, or even the way you see people? We are all inevitably delivered moments that smother our ideals and desires. This thing called sin, it truly wreaks havoc on our world and our hearts. May is Lyme Disease Awareness month, which leads me to share about one of those staked moments I mentioned above.

Encouragement in the Valley

Encouragement in the Valley

Hiking isn’t that hard, right? It’s basically just walking, and I walk everyday, so I can totally do this. This is what I kept telling myself as my trip to hike the Grand Canyon from rim to rim in one day (roughly 26 miles with 4,000 ft of elevation lost and then gained) came closer and closer on the calendar.

Counting it Joy Even When Cancer Comes: An Interview with Billie Meadors

Counting it Joy Even When Cancer Comes: An Interview with Billie Meadors

Billie Meadors was convinced God was about to redeem a difficult part of her past. Having survived an extremely tough marriage and then long season of single motherhood, Billie had just wholeheartedly spent the entire summer recruiting team members, preparing to launch and lead an all new Single Moms Ministry, when a routine mammogram threatened all that.