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June Desktop Wallpaper {& Other Thoughts}

Happy June, friends! I can’t believe we’re almost halfway through 2011.  It’s true what “they” say…the days are long, but the years are short! Boy, is this truth hitting home as I examine the incredible length of my little’s ones legs today and tuck away more clothes that are suddenly too small for their growing bods.  It’s astounding.  Wasn’t I… Read More

Daily Life, Designs, Desktop Wallpaper

Mother’s Day Thoughts & May Desktop Wallpaper

I love being a mum! On most days, that is. One of the greatest gifts I’ve been given in life, is the example my own mother fleshed out. In her extravagant love for my father, her unconditional love for their 4 crazy girls, and her authentic love for her God. In thinking about this day, set apart for honoring and… Read More

Designs, Desktop Wallpaper, Motherhood

April Desktop Wallpaper

The snow that has blanketed our back yard for the past week is {finally} starting to melt and I am practically giddy at the fact that April has arrived. While March boasts the first “official” day of Spring…April holds a considerably larger proportion of warm days to chilly.  And that makes my heart sing! Bring on the April showers…the May… Read More

Designs, Desktop Wallpaper

Getting Fresh {Desktop Wallpaper}

I don’t know about you, but I can feel Spring in my bones! It’s calling my name in it’s signature, lilting fashion. Wooing me. I think Spring sounds like rain.  The non-freezing kind.  And a little like a duet between Michael Buble and Colbie Caillat would sound. With the sound of defrosted birds chirping randomly in the background. And while… Read More

Designs, Desktop Wallpaper

Happy Month of Love {Desktop Wallpaper}

Seeing there’s nothing quite like cutting out paper hearts, rimming them with sprinkles, sticking them in the snow and photographing them {what?  You don’t do that?!?) in the name of February fever, I thought I’d share the love… Just choose the size {below} that works best for your computer, download and save it, right click it and make it your… Read More

Designs, Desktop Wallpaper

Happy NEW Year {Wallpaper for you}

Here’s a little New Year’s prezzie for you…desktop wallpaper for January 2011! {insert wild applause here} For large {1680 x 1050 pixels}, click here For small {1280 x 800 pixels}, click here Voila!  Pretty computer. Now go make yourself some pretty little Sugar Cookies… Ingredients: 2 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder 1/2 teaspoon of salt… Read More

Designs, Desktop Wallpaper

Christmas {Desktop} Wallpaper: For You!

I’ve been itching to create my own spiffy wallpaper for months now…and seeing it’s Christmas and the sharing vibe is surging strong through the air…I finally gave it a whirl and wanted to share my first ever with you! Aren’t I sweet?  {just smile and nod} Simply select the size you want, click on the link, right-click on it to… Read More

Designs, Desktop Wallpaper, Quotes and Scriptures

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May you remember that God is not only the God of d May you remember that God is not only
the God of destinations, but of detours.

When life takes you somewhere you never intended to go,
may you recognize that you have not been forgotten.

May you have eyes to see the people in front of you,
hands willing to gather the sticks,
courage to shake off the snakes,
a heart willing to welcome and be welcomed,
and faith to believe that even here,
especially here, God is at work.
What if the place you keep calling a detour is act What if the place you keep calling a detour is actually part of the story?

Paul was headed to Rome. Instead, he ended up shipwrecked on Malta.
It wasn't the destination. But it mattered.

A reminder for all of us: don't waste the waiting,
the detour, or the place you didn't choose.

🎙️ 042 | Make Malta Matter | Finding Purpose in Divine Detours
  The latest Oh, Good Grief Podcast episode is out now.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #MakeMaltaMatter #SimplyBloomCo
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What if the years you thought were wasted… weren't What if the years you thought were wasted…
weren't wasted at all?

In Part 2 of my conversation with Leah Harvey,
we go deeper into what it means to trust
God when the outcome is still unknown.

Leah has spent years carrying the ache of infertility,
and she doesn't offer a tidy answer or a spiritual shortcut.

Instead, she talks about restoration.
About eternity.
About choosing Jesus over her preference.
About looking for treasure in the middle of the story.

And about the surprising realization that there
may not have been wasted years after all,
because God was present in every one of them.

He is.
Even here.
Even now.

🎧 Part Two with Leah Harvey is live now.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #StruggleWell #StayRooted #SojournTogether
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What if trusting that God is good doesn't mean bel What if trusting that God is good doesn't mean
believing He will give us everything we ask for?

That's one of the questions my friend Leah Harvey
and I wrestle with in this week's episode.

Leah and her hubby, Jake, have walked through years
of infertility and the kind of unanswered prayer that
doesn't just hurt once—it asks you to keep
trusting God over and over again.

We talk about grief, surrender, the questions we sometimes feel afraid to ask, and what happens when we stop trying to put tidy answers over messy pain.

This is a tender conversation about choosing Jesus over our preferences, embracing the mystery of God, and learning to believe that His goodness doesn't depend on whether He gives us the thing we're asking for.

Part One of my conversation with Leah Harvey is live now
🎧  040 | The Goodness of God in the Waiting

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #StruggleWell #StayRooted #SojournTogether
Before the world told you who you needed to become Before the world told you who you needed to become...
Before fear taught you how to survive...
Before shame convinced you to hide...
God looked at you and called you His own.

Not because you had healed.
Not because you had figured yourself out.
Not because you had become your best self.
Simply because you were His.

You are still becoming.
And you are already loved.

Keep coming home.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #SimplyBloomCo
What if the goal isn't to become a different type, What if the goal isn't to become a different type,
but to become more fully yourself?

We've spent the last several weeks exploring the Enneagram:
our gifts, wounds, coping strategies, and the stories we
learned to believe in order to survive.

Now it's time to come home.

Episode 039 closes this Summer Series by asking
what happens when self-awareness becomes surrender.

The Enneagram can help us understand our patterns.
But it was never meant to become our identity.

You are not your number.
You are not your trauma.
You are not your coping strategy.

You are a beloved child of God.

🎧 Oh, Good Grief — Episode 039 is available now.
Sitting on the front porch with a cup of coffee, m Sitting on the front porch with a cup of coffee, my Bible and a book of maps in my lap, and the sun on my face, has me thinking about how strange and beautiful life can be.

It’s no small honor to be given the opportunity to preach at our church from time to time. Had you told the broken, shoplifting, lying, giving-her-body-away-for-free teenage girl I once was that one day she’d stand in a pulpit and talk to people about God’s goodness and grace, I would have laughed at you.

But maybe that’s exactly why God delights in using the messy, the unlikely, the misfits. Because these are the stories that make His redemption impossible to miss.

One of my favorite lines from The Chosen, spoken by Mary Magdalene, sums it up perfectly: “I was one way, and now I am completely different. And the thing that happened in between was Him.”

That’s my story, too.
And if I were to hazard a guess, it's yours as well.

It’s one of my greatest joys to dig into God’s Word, share what He’s laid on my heart, offer some encouragement and conviction, confess the uncomfortable things, and ultimately point people back to Jesus.

Because there’s no denying the extraordinary power of redemption when you’ve lived it yourself.
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