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Announcing Our Fall 2015 Book Club!
Fall is here and along with pumpkin spice everything is our latest (in)courage book selection! Grab a cup of coffee (or tea, or apple cider, or whatever gives you all the warm fuzzies) and join us for...
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Authenticity: A Very Good Thing
Sometimes life hands us incredibly full seasons, and our own Melissa Michaels is in the midst of one of those right now. We hope you’ll join us in praying for her and her family as she dedicates time...
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“Simply Tuesday” Book Club Details!
Last week we announced that we’ll be reading Emily P. Freeman’s “Simply Tuesday” together for our fall book club – and we’ve loved watching so many of you join us in the Facebook group! If you haven’t...
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{Better Together} Week 2: Love Your Neighbor As Your Self(ie)
Since we’ve been given the biblical mandate that we all belong to each other {Romans 12:5, NLT}, this fall at (in)courage we wanted to spend some deliberate time together unpacking what that means. To...
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Stop Waiting and Be All In
Circled around close, we clutched our coffee mugs. With the backdrop set for conversation between myself and these precious stay at home moms, the sound of toddlers alternated between giggling,...
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Be the Blessing
We strung the Christmas lights around the tree the weekend before Thanksgiving this year. It was earlier than usual for us, but the day was quiet and in our hearts it felt right to slowly welcome in...
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Your Very Best Idea Ever
It’s locked in you. You know it. You feel it. It’s a sacred stirring. You sense it so deeply that you know it’s not an inkling of your imagination but rather an igniting of God’s revelation. God is...
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4 Ways to Let Grace in Instead of Guilt
“Real freedom is freedom from the opinion of others. Above all, freedom from your own opinions about yourself.” ~ Brennan Manning I had never written a book before. So, every day when I wrote Finding...
View ArticleThe Courage to Create from Who You Are
If you’ve spent any time at my regular blog home, Chasing Blue Skies, you know I’m a big fan of country music. What you may not know is I’m also a classically-trained musician with a college degree in...
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When Change Is Present and Creativity Isn’t
During our time as a military family, we blew into a new town every three years or so. Anxious to wrap my babies (and myself) in some sense of normalcy, I would set up house lickety-split, or as...
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Fall in Love with Home Making
I love fall. As the leaves are turning colors outside, my heart is turning back inside our home. Fall is a season when I feel like I enjoy homemaking the most. After a summer of playing, working, and...
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Recommended Reads: His Word, Your Heart
So, how about we memorize the Bible? Not all of it, of course. We can start with some of the verses you love most. I know, I know. You don’t have time. Your memory isn’t what it used to be. You tried...
View ArticleNo Doubt for His Glory
Not long ago, I posted something on my social media pages about creativity and not letting fear and doubt hide it. Not surprising what I heard back . . . people relating doubts about their talents and...
View ArticleReclaiming the Joy of Christmas
“Are you excited for Christmas?” I ducked my head, suddenly interested in the specks at the bottom of my mug of passion fruit tea. As the silence drew long, I finally met her gaze. No use hiding, I...
View ArticleOur Beautiful Beginning
I want to push you, gently but sure. Not in the way that bruises knees and pride but in the way a mama bird nudges her lovies out of the nest. She knows they’re capable of doing so much more, that they...
View ArticleOur So-Crazy-They-Just-Might-Work Ideas
Sun sliced through the window of our third-story vintage (aka old and falling apart) Chicago apartment and I thought again about this idea I had entertained over the past several months. I missed...
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