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Updated! Spring Book Sale: Real Food and Healthy Homemaking eBooks 50% Off!
Celebrating the fact that it’s spring, the sun is beginning to shine (and green things beginning to grow), and most of all that in 5 short days I will board a plane that will take me and my hubby to...
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What Does It Take to Change a Life?
Though rather bleary-eyed from a day and a half of travel and far too few hours of shut eye (but thankfully enhanced by an amazing breakfast and stellar cup of coffee), our group headed off to the...
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What the Hands and Feet of Jesus Look Like
Weary to the bone, and emotionally upside down, my brain feels saturated with images and stories, but firing on too few pistons to really tell them. That’s where I’m at as I attempt to write this post...
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Of Rubber Boots, Self Pity and Ladders
I met a woman who has water flooding her house, up to her knees, for 9 months out of the year. She has to wear rubber boots inside while she cooks and feeds her family. She has two sons, and one is...
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Because I’m Afraid That I Will Forget
I was washing some of my dirty clothes in the hotel bathtub this morning. Sweating profusely every day will make you go through what you packed in your suitcase in a hurry. As I knelt over the tub and...
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How to Pry Open Swollen Eyes
I’ve been hugged more this week than I probably have in the last year. I love it, but really? I’m just getting to the point where I want to go home and hug my own kids. Ready to go home or not, this...
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Is Compassion International a Good Investment? A Husband’s Perspective.
**Many of you may have realized that I was blessed to have my husband, Ryan, come with me on my trip to the Philippines last week. Though we hadn’t originally planned for him to join me in writing, he...
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Looking Through a Child’s Eyes
I am often in awe of how God has blessed children with eyes that are so pure and innocent. Yesterday morning, I sat down on the couch to show my 4 and 6 year old the pictures from my recent trip to...
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Dirty Water, Clean Water
Updated: Thanks to my amazing readers rising to the challenge, we will be providing 4 families with clean, pure drinking water for a LIFETIME! How’s that for exciting? :) Water. So critical, so taken...
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Fresh Hope for Families and Soap Winners!
Two exciting things to announce today… Clean water for families The first is that through the 48 hour book sale, we raised almost $220 which is going directly to Compassion International’s Water of...
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Weekend Links
Links for this week: What Your Messy House REALLY Says About You @ Mothering I Asked 20 Moms With Grown Kids What They Regret Most. Here Are Their Answers. @ Smartter Each Day Cilantro Lime Chicken @...
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