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31 Days of Hindsight: Day 15
31 Days of Hindsight: Day 15 Today is day 15; therefore since we are just about at the half-way mark on this 31 day journey, I am adding a reminder of WHY it began in the first place. If today is your first day on the adventure, I hope you will read days 1-14 when… Continue reading
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GENTalks Episode 8: Open-Book Living With Guest, Toya Poplar
GENTalks Episode 8: Open-Book Living With Guest, Toya Poplar In Episode 8 Kaitlin and Katie have their first interview and it is live and local! Toya Poplar is the epitome of “Open-book living!” She is the author of “Stop Write There” (http://stopwritethere.com) “…an interactive journal that prompts you to probe your heart before and during… Continue reading
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31 Days of Hindsight: Day 7
Today is the 9 year anniversary of my “NOTHING BUT NOODLES” lunch. December 7, 2007 is the day a “sleeping giant” awoke in me, the day I surrendered to the Holy Spirit. …the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world. 1 John 4:4 NLT That date is… Continue reading
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31 Days of Hindsight: Day 4
We are on day 4 of this 31 day journey looking backward before moving forward into 2017! If you are new today, checkout days 1 through 3 for the foundation of this hindsight writing challenge. I pray you leave encouraged and inspired to start your own year-end review. In looking back, I hope you are… Continue reading
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31 Days of Hindsight: Day 3
We are on day 3 of this 31 day journey looking backward in an effort to glean, grow and go forward into 2017! If you are new to the journey today, checkout day 1 and 2 for the foundation for this hindsight writing challenge. I pray you leave encouraged and inspired to start your own… Continue reading
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When Scars Become Beauty Marks
As 2016 comes to a close, let’s take the time to look back. What have we learned? What are we working on? What was painful and where are we in the pain process? (*Pain will not be ignored. If we don’t acknowledge it and work with it, it will kick harder and wear us out!)… Continue reading
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Choose Your Story
Our private decisions always have public ripple effects. Are we leaving beauty marks or scars in our wake? #ChooseYourStory We don’t live in a vacuum. Every choice we make effects the world around us, whether we like it or not. If we are really honest in our heart right now and evaluate: Up to this… Continue reading
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5 Blogs I Like and Why
Bloglovin’ is a tool for keeping up with blogs. It is a way to manage feeds. I just added my blog to this platform and you can get to it here Psalm8110.com on Bloglovin’ One of the posts on Bloglovin’ today was looking for contributors: We’re Looking For Contributors I loved the way they asked you… Continue reading
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(Week 32) Bama Bound: Let’s Hear It For the Boys
Story Behind the Painting: This watercolor elephant is a graduation present for a friend’s son. I asked her what I could possibly paint that a freshman boy might actually hang in his dorm and an elephant was the safest, school appropriate bet. Although the title gives it away, the elephant is intended to as well.… Continue reading
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(Week 28) Hope: My Lighthouse
Story behind the painting: I had originally titled this blog post, “Compound Words: Lighthouses and Honeymoons.” “Why?” By definition, “a compound word is the combination of 2 (or more- but leaving OR MORE out for obvious reasons regarding marriage:) words that function as a single unit of meaning.” Therefore, Marriage is like a compound… Continue reading