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At The Well: Guest Post

Read this guest post here, At The Well.

Designs, Quotes and Scriptures

My Baby Daddy: A Tribute

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother” ~ Rev. Theodore Hesburgh My husband, and best friend…their daddy, and hero. I overhear them in the garage.  He is guiding the little boy whose lips might possibly be the most kissable in all the world – in how […]

Faith, Family, Marriage

{Incredible} Beer Bread

{Disclaimer: this bread is wildly delicious and may cause a spirit of gluttony to overtake you.  Double the batch} My hubby stumbled upon this scrumptious recipe last week while trying to find excuses to use my birthday present: a sexy, black Kitchenaid Mixer. He purchased it for me with purely unselfish motives, of course {cough, […]

Food

My Hacker Man and The Historical Village

In case you missed it {or thought maybe I had vanity issues and liked to talk about myself in the third person}…my husband hacked my blog yesterday.  He actually hacked it.  Compliments of Live Writer. As a birthday surprise, none the less. He informed me, only minutes after I woke up…and minutes before he passed […]

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O Hacker… er um… Happy Birthday!

  Today is a very special day. She turns thirty! The woman of my dreams is thirty. I love it. I love you babe! Not a day goes by that I am not amazed at what God has done in and through you. Your love has forever captivated my heart. Your joy is positively contagious, […]

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30 Things {You Might Not Know} About Me…

…and quite possibly, I should note, might not want to. Happy Birthday to me, I’ve officially hit thirty! And I‘m not sure how I managed to maintain sanity.   In honor of 30 years under my belt, I thought I might entertain you with these 30 little morsels… I’m a picker and a plucker.  If […]

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Girl Meets Toad

{Alternately entitled: “I’m finally getting brave enough to fiddle with my Lightroom software”} Introducing the epic sequel to “Girl Meets Worm”…   Toad. Meet Girl. Toad dislikes Girl. Girl Likes Toad.  Very much. {the end}

Complete nonsense, Photography, The Kiddos

Cake Pops for Africa

I heart Africa, it’s no surprise. It’s been almost 5 years since I was ‘home’. So until we can return, as a family {with children old enough to endure appreciate the journey over the ocean}, to touch her soil and kiss her people, we will live vicariously through my baby sister who has just landed […]

Faith, Food, Travels

At The Well: Guest Post

It’s easy to rejoice in Him when things are going well, isn’t it? But what about when our world is crashing down around us.  What then? Here’s a great verse that’ll help answer this question…check out my post on At The Well. {And again I say Rejoice!}

Designs, Photography, Quotes and Scriptures

They’re Men. They’re Men in Tight {tight} Tights.

Only, they were skirts.  And only sort of. And there were lots of them.  Hundreds upon thousands of people, in full Scottish regalia, show up to celebrate the Highland Festival in Alma each year, eager to soak in all the Gaelic flavor of this occasion…from bagpipes, shortbread and tartan, to highland dancing, sheaf tossing and […]

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The enemy may wound. But he doesn't get to write t The enemy may wound.
But he doesn't get to write the ending.

Morgan's story includes abuse, betrayal, fear, and years of healing.

Yet today she spends her life loving vulnerable children, opening her home to foster kids, and building a family rooted in grace.

What could have broken her became
the very place God planted compassion.
That's redemption.
Not erasing the wound.
Not pretending it didn't happen.

But allowing God to grow something beautiful from what was meant to destroy.

🎙️ Listen to Episode 027 of Oh, Good Grief wherever you find your podcasts

#RestorationStories #OhGoodGriefPodcast #HealingJourney
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Some stories are painful to tell. And some stories Some stories are painful to tell.
And some stories need to be told anyway.

This week on Oh, Good Grief, I'm joined by the lovely Morgan Brailley, a survivor, foster mama, adoptive mom, and living testimony to God's redemptive love.

Morgan shares her journey through abuse, trauma, healing, foster care, and the unexpected ways God can bring beauty from the deepest wounds.

This conversation is honest.
Tender. Hard.
And full of hope.

Because trauma may shape us,
but it does not get the final word.

🎙️ Episode 027 | When the Silence Breaks
  A Story of Abuse, Survival, and Redemptive Love

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #TraumaHealing #RedemptionStory
Grace and truth were never enemies in the life of Grace and truth
were never enemies in the life of Jesus.

He told the woman caught in adultery:
“Neither do I condemn you…
go and leave your life of sin.”

Mercy.
And honesty.
Together.

This week’s episode is about the rocks we carry—the anger, bitterness, judgment, and wounds we keep rehearsing long after the moment has passed.

Because sometimes the thing crushing our soul…
is the stone we refuse to put down.

🎧 026 | Dropping Your Rock is live now.
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Some wounds don’t leave us angry because they were Some wounds don’t leave us angry
because they were the worst thing that happened to us.
Sometimes they stay because they were the moment someone
stood close enough to see our pain… and still did nothing.

This week on the podcast, I’m talking about the rocks we carry—judgment, resentment, bitterness, offense—and the quiet ways they shape our souls over time.

This episode is deeply personal. Tender. Honest.

🎧 Episode 026 | Dropping Your Rock | Choosing Mercy Over Judgment is live now.

#OGGPodcast #StruggleWell #StayRooted #SojournTogether
“Healing isn’t pretending it didn’t hurt. It’s ref “Healing isn’t pretending it didn’t hurt.
It’s refusing to let the wound become your identity.”

This week on the podcast, Dr. Ansonya Burke and I talk about forgiveness, leadership, emotional healing, and the sacred process of becoming whole after hard seasons.

There’s so much wisdom in this one.
Especially for the people quietly carrying more than anyone knows.

🎧 Listen now to Episode 025 | The Power of Forgiveness

#OhGoodGriefPodcast
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Some stories don’t end the way we expected. Some r Some stories don’t end the way we expected.
Some relationships fracture.
Some seasons unravel us completely.

But grace still has a way of writing beautiful endings.

In this deeply honest conversation, my dear friend Dr. Ansonya Burke shares about healing, forgiveness, wholeness, and learning how to release what no longer belongs in your hands.

This episode is tender, wise, and full of the kind of truth that only comes from walking through fire and finding God faithful in it.

🎧 Episode 025 | The Power of Forgiveness is live now.

#OhGoodGriefPodcast #StruggleWell #StayRooted #SojournTogether
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