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Putting our health first
I found myself in with an almost spotless house screaming at my children. Screaming commands. Commands to clean. I realized in that moment just how much I sucked. It was a healthy realization. Realizing we suck is a good thing when we also realize just how much power we have to change. After that I…
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Running the race as a mother
All my life I wanted children, and now I have three. It has allowed me to see things more clearly. I analyze things longer and deeper than before. I have learned so much. Made so many hard decisions. Made so many promises to myself and them. Promises to end generational curses, to lift them into…
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To Birth a child
To birth a child is to sacrifice yourself on the alter of hope. Nothing will be easy from here on out. You didn’t birth this baby to enjoy a leisurely always satisfying life. You birthed this baby in hopes that they will bring this world joy, peace, and beauty. That hope is not enough to…
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BEEUTIFUL Creation
One day while scrolling on Facebook I came across a news article about honey bees, and how their numbers are quickly declining. I was shocked to read how so many of our lifestyle practices are killing them. Things like: killing “weeds” with sprays you get from the hardware store, spraying insecticides in your gardens, and…
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Finding your joy
This is a beautiful poem I wrote while teaching my daughter’s about joy and happiness. I want all children to understand and embrace their emotions.
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A word for those who grew up in legalistic religion and ran from it.
They fought to keep their children pure and holy with the belts and the threats. They focused so heavily on perfect superior behavior that they didn’t have energy left to care for the inner person of each child. Daughters fearfully covered more and more. Embodied perfect submission. Denied themselves the right to feel, think, or…
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We are heard
Growing up I always knew God could hear me. Some of my earliest memories I am praying. There were times in my teens I was convinced God wouldn’t want to hear from me. That I was too dirty and unworthy to be acknowledge by such a Holy and Sovereign God, but I found my way…
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Brave as a Lion
I wrote this poem for my own daughters when teaching them about fear. I want all children to understand their emotions and thrive with them. I myself have experience a raising where emotions, unless it was joy, must have been hidden. This has caused me to spend years of my adulthood learning to embrace and…
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Baptism
Oh, how precious to be baptized. To share with all that you have met Christ and the Holy Spirit. 1 Timothy 2:3-4 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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Teaching children to cry.
I wrote this poem to encourage my own daughters to feel their emotions and work through them in healthy ways. Let us create a generation of emotionally healthy humans who love themselves and one another.
