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How Are You Waiting?

February 7, 2023
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| Categories: Coaching Yourself, Contentment, Patience, Uncategorized, Yielding and Waiting
The encouragement in this post has been expanded upon in the podcast episode which can be found below.
Will you join me at Asking Is Loving?

I’ve known my friend, Susan Newkirk, for about twenty years. We started off being friends through our young adult group at a church we both attended. At that time, the two of us along with three other women decided to form a group that would seek to trust God as…
The encouragement in this post has been expanded upon in the podcast episode which can be found below.
Will you join me at Asking Is Loving?

I’ve known my friend, Susan Newkirk, for about twenty years. We started off being friends through our young adult group at a church we both attended. At that time, the two of us along with three other women decided to form a group that would seek to trust God as…
The encouragement in this post has been expanded upon in the podcast episode which can be found below.
Will you join me at Asking Is Loving?

I’ve known my friend, Susan Newkirk, for about twenty years. We started off being friends through our young adult group at a church we both attended. At that time, the two of us along with three other women decided to form a group that would seek to trust God as…

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If Patience and Slowing Feels Painful

September 28, 2014
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| Categories: Patience

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This carousel at the St. Louis zoo always makes me dizzy.  Not unlike how I feel in life.  Days rushing by like everything around this ride.

Colors and lights blurring past me like the years that have passed since the carousel’s first use in the 1904 World’s Fair.

Sometimes as the days, months and years pass I can catch a glimpse of what my aching heart longs for.

Love.

Jesus.

My loved ones.

The church.

The last months have felt like this.

I tried to take a picture of my children on…

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The Lord Gives and the Lord Takes Away

March 30, 2013
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| Categories: Patience, Suffering, Yielding and Waiting

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I was tired. The dishes weren’t done. My girl was looking sleepy and my boy was knee deep into a project. Both were sick.  From the looks of us, you’d never know that in five minutes we’d be trying to imitate Christ.  But it is Easter weekend and I didn’t want to miss the opportunities to reflect on our faith.

I brought out the basin of water, the towels, the plate with bread and the juice.  Lights down, we sat together and read the passage of the night Jesus was betrayed. The…

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