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Five Words and Five Scriptures To Help Create a Beautiful Life

February 10, 2020 by Loree

Like a monster from Hell, hungry flames leap toward the sky, devouring every morsel in its path. Driven by drought and the extreme summer temperatures, Australian fires rage on. As of February first, [Read more...]

Posted in: grace, Life & Work, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: Australian fires, encouragement, hospitality, Johns 3:16, Matthew 7:12, Phillipians 4:6, Prov 18:4, social media, tolerance, wombats, word of the year

How Hilarious 2020 Predictions From the Past Help Us Be Content in the Present

January 26, 2020 by Loree

What a futuristic-sounding number—2020. It feels like something phenomenal should transpire this year. Like some great discovery should be unveiled such as the ten commandments on the actual stone [Read more...]

Posted in: Life & Work, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anxiety, be present, content, joy, Matthew 6:24, predictions, protection, Psalm 5:11, refuge, resolutions, worry

How a Word of the Year Can Make You or Derail You

January 4, 2020 by Loree

Hello friends! Happy New Year! I’d like to first apologize for the long silence. Writing a devotional book takes more time and energy than I ever imagined, even when writing with three friends. But [Read more...]

Posted in: grace, Life & Work, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: busyness, failure, fear, grace, Isaiah 28:12, new year, rest, slow, word of the year

25 Words to Change Your World—One Day at a Time

January 27, 2019 by Loree

He cuts me off like a zooming maniac. As his silver streak of a car rockets down the left lane past the long line of waiting cars, he whips in front of me. Hey! We are all trying to be patient here [Read more...]

Posted in: grace, Life & Work, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: failure, frustration, grace, journal, life cahnging, meditate, peace, Phillipians 4:8-9, pick a word, ugly words

How to Be All In When Asked to do Hard Things

July 7, 2018 by Loree

You want me to do what? Move back to Texas??  I argued with God. I whined. I balked. I asked for three fleece. I felt a bit like Gideon, but my request was for one more than Gideon even asked [Read more...]

Posted in: Family & Friendship, Life & Work, Peace, Praise and Thanks, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anxiety, Avengers, blessings, comfort, comfort zone, Deborah, dread, family, friendship, Gideon, Hulk, joys, Judges, Judges 6:17-20, Judges 6:36-38, Judges 6:39-40, Judges 7:15, Moving, peace, plans, Samson, Texas, trust, Wonder Woman, work

Five Promises to Help You Paddle Upstream When Life Beats You Down

June 23, 2018 by Loree

“Where were they? They can’t have just disappeared.”  Escaping with the giddy feeling of power in outsmarting their “jailers,” three students snuck off campus and headed for 7-Eleven three blocks [Read more...]

Posted in: Life & Work, Peace, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: Beloved, children, despair, discouragement, disgust, guilt, loneliness, promises, shoplifting, shopping, teacher, trials, unhappiness

Could You Use a Good Laugh Today? 10 Hilarious and True Facts about Motherhood

May 12, 2018 by Loree

For your Mother’s Day enjoyment, here are my favorite mom facts and quotes modernized with a hashtag: 1.  #Detectivework: Silence is golden unless you have kids. Then it is just suspicious. 2.  [Read more...]

Posted in: Family & Friendship, Life & Work, Peace, Poetry, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly, Raising Boys Tagged: chocolate, encourage, exhaustion, fear, grace, hashtag, hilarious, kids, laugh, love, messy, mother, Mother's Day, Perfect, Philippians 4:7, worry

When the World Thinks it’s Smarter than God: Five Reasons to Believe the Bible is Truth

May 2, 2018 by Loree

“Repetitive, self-contradictory, sententious, foolish”- GQ explaining why the Bible is on its list of books you don’t have to read. —The Skimm My heart broke and anger welled bitter in my stomach [Read more...]

Posted in: Life & Work, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: 1 Corinthians 2:14, 2 Timothy 3:16, believe, bible, Billy Graham, choices, Daniel 9:25-27, discouraged, GQ, hard heart, heart, Hebrews 4:12, Isaiah 53, Josephus, Micha 2, power, prophecies, soul, troubled, truth, Weak

Three Quick Ways to Find Peace When Chaos Rules the Day

April 21, 2018 by Loree

He looked rumpled like an unmade bed, as if he had fought hard for his peace. But with his charming demeanor, this whimsical bear seemed to be begging me to grasp the secret he knew deep. Carved with [Read more...]

Posted in: Life & Work, Peace, Praise and Thanks, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: annoyance, anxiety, beauty, breathe, carpool, Colossians 3:15, distraction, John 14:27, nature, obsession, peace, Pray, Psalm 23, sunrise, sunset, worry

To Tell the Truth: Why We Should Cling to Honesty in a Dishonest Society

March 19, 2018 by Loree

I had four sunshine yellow pillows staring me in the face. On one hand they begged to add some cheer to a lonely sofa, on the other hand, with an accusing eye, they crossed their arms and sternly [Read more...]

Posted in: Decorating & Design, Life & Work, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: cheat, dishonesty, honesty, Luke 16:10, lying, Ricky Gervais, Satan, slippery slope, The Invention of Lying
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Learn how to rewrite your messy stories one grace at a time. In these 52 devotionals, we share stories of hilarity and hardship to uncover how God transforms our mayhem and invites us to live free.
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