Growing In Faith Through Hope and Celebration

To say I’m overwhelmed this week might be an understatement.

You might be thinking, “Didn’t you create a course on overcoming overwhelm?”

If you are, you’re right. I did! What you might not know is that I state in the course that overwhelming life situations will always come. We can’t obliterate ovewhelm once and for all. We must face each overwhelming life situation as it happens and face each one well.

So, that’s my goal this week!

As I prepare to leave on a trip for two weeks, I face some challenges. Our air…

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If You Feel Like You’re Free Falling

Do you ever feel like you’re free falling?

If you’re a thrill seeker, maybe that doesn’t sound so bad. For me, the feeling doesn’t make me excited or happy. The feeling makes me want to run away, hide, or quit.

If you are contemplating quitting, hiding, or running away, I want to enourage you today!

I felt like I was free falling right through 2018 and into 2019 like a helpless eaglet slipping out of her nest. I knew that I had to trust that the Lord’s everlasting arms were underneath me instead…

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Overcoming Overwhelm: Giving the Omnipresent Lord All of Life – Week 1 of 8

This past year my family moved outĀ of the house I’d lived in longer than any other house. We were moving into an old farmhouse that we were rehabbing ourselves. It was a challenging process both physically and mentally. As I considered all of the things I’d miss about the home I’d brought my babies up in, I wondered what I could take with me. Was there a piece of my past that could somehow satisfy my heart in the future? I remembered that each year in late winter and early…

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