This year my goal is to share surrender stories, encouragement from myself and others that will encourage you to surrender the good, the bad, and—maybe one day—the chocolate. Last week Sarah Hamaker shared her story about parenting expectations. Alexis A. Goring let us in on her journey about surrendering refined sugar. My story is about…
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My 2016 Words of the Year
Yep, you read it right. Words. In 2013 it was ABUNDANCE. 2014? CHOSEN AND PREPOSTEROUS. 2015 was all about REVIVE. Each year I pray for the word or words and invest them into a theme for the year. It’s amazing to watch God work. The word/s always come back with full meaning at the end…
COTT: The Sound of Diamonds by Rachelle Rea
Readers of Jody Hedlund’s new medieval YA series and Melanie Dickerson’s fairytale-based YA novels will love Rachelle Rea’s The Sound of Diamonds. —Dawn Crandall, award-winning author of The Hesitant Heiress PURCHASE Amazon B & N Books a Million About the book: Her only chance of getting home is trusting the man she hates. With…
Sweet Surrender by Alexis A. Goring
Julie’s Note: Throughout 2016 I will have guest bloggers sharing their surrender stories. Today, Alexis A. Goring shares her sweet surrender. Sweet Surrender A guest post by Alexis A. Goring Sugar. Refined sugar. It was my solace, my relief, my healing from emotional trauma. Since age 16, sugar had been my source of…
Daniel Darling: What Pro-Life Really Means
What Pro-Life Really Means—Even if you’re not heading to Washington, D.C., January 21–22 for the March for Life event, block out some time those two days because you’ll be able to attend some of the events in the comfort of your own home. Focus on the Family and The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission will host…
Surrendering Parenting Expectations by Sarah Hamaker
Surrendering Your Parenting Expectations By Sarah Hamaker What are your parenting expectations? Whether you’ve thought about this or not, we all have our own hopes for our child rearing and by extension, our kids. It might be that our children behave like little angels in public. Maybe it’s to have kids who express…