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4 Strategies for Living at Home as an Adult Daughter

My younger sisters (Ellissa, Rebekah, and Suzanna) and I sat in our kitchen nook late into the night. We chatted about our weeks and then landed on this topic: How to be an adult daughter who chooses to live at home. Rebekah is nineteen, Ellissa is twenty-six, and I am thirty (I lived at home […]

2 Truths to Replace Self-Pity with Joy

Jennifer’s tears rolled down her cheeks as she struggled to express her thoughts. “I just don’t feel like God sees me or cares about me. He’s never answered a single one of my prayers and I never see Him working in my life. I don’t have many friends, my parents don’t give me the time […]

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The Tradition of the Christmas Angel

My family adores Christmas traditions; we look forward to them every year. Christmas breakfast always looks the same. Christmas dinner always looks the same. The stockings hanging on the fireplace always look the same. We love doing the same things year after year after year! One of my family’s most special Christmas traditions started when […]

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How to Become a Woman Who Thrives

With my calves on fire and my body soaking wet from the hours of running in the rain, I finally crossed the finish line. The months of training that I’d spent leading up until this point paid off. I had officially run my first (and probably only) marathon. You better believe I put that 26.2 […]

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10 Things Purity Was Never Meant To Be

I was her. I was the teen girl reading Christian books on modesty, purity, and relationships. I often read my favorite books over and over again. I loved learning and I loved striving to understand God’s design for my life as a Christian girl. I wore the purity ring. I read I Kissed Dating Goodbye. […]

5 Ways to Practice Hospitality as a Single Woman

As a newly married woman with my own space now, one of the things I can’t wait to do is show hospitality to others. As I unpack my many boxes, I’m imaging how fun it’s going to be to invite people into my new little apartment and serve them a good meal. I can’t wait to […]

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