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What Now? How To Cope When Your Best Laid Plans Go Awry—Psalm 139

May 16, 2020 by Loree

I messed up big time. Those words zinged like a wind-up car ricocheting through my brain. What was I thinking?  The news reports showed multitudes of airports with deserted corridors and [Read more...]

Posted in: comfort, God in control, Life & Work, Peace, Praise and Thanks, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly, Travel Tagged: Airline flight, anxiety, COVID, divine timing, frustration, Psalm 139, scheme, social distance, worry

Hard COVID Truths From an ICU Nurse in New Jersey: Psalms 10 and 13

April 25, 2020 by Loree

Lindsey Thompson April 17 at 9:06 PM My mask was soaking wet today.  Not with sweat like it usually is. (Well, maybe a little)  It was wet with tears.  It was soaking wet [Read more...]

Posted in: comfort, Life & Work, Peace, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: concentration camp quote, concentrations camp qote, COVID, doubt, fear, ICU nurse, nurse, Psalm 10, Psalm 13, sacrifice, steadfast love, why?, worry

How to Feed your Faith and Starve your Fears—Psalm 34

April 18, 2020 by Loree

He waved the green liquid in front of my face like a trophy. “Look, Mom, I found two, do you want one?” And like a dummy, I said I was all good and he could keep both the sanitizers because his little [Read more...]

Posted in: comfort, Family & Friendship, Life & Work, Peace, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: Faith, fear, feed faith not fear, Hand sanitizer, isolation, loneliness, pandemic, Psalm 3:4, top 10 list, worry

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 to Walk Bold When Your Path is Hard and the World is Falling Apart Around You

May 23, 2018 by Loree

And now the funerals begin. I can’t believe ten kids are dead.  Again. Mowed down by a troubled peer.  Again. And to think I was all set to blog about the royal wedding… maybe later for [Read more...]

Posted in: Peace, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anxiety, comfort, death, fear, grace, grief, hope, Isaiah 51:12-16, Isaiah 57 18-24, pain, school shooting, worry

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

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

The Miracle Cure to Worry

March 3, 2018 by Loree

But answers are often not so quick. Or at least answered so I can see them. So when it comes down to my own prayer walk, I can stay connected to God's tubes of life-giving air…or not. I really have [Read more...]

Posted in: Family & Friendship, Forgiveness, Peace, Praise and Thanks, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anxious, death, disbelieve, Faith, fear, forgive, illness, miracle, Philippians 4:6-7, pneumonia, prayer, Sin, worry

What Choices Would You Make if You Only Had Thirty-eight Minutes to Live? Three Steps to Living Thankful

January 21, 2018 by Loree

The text message screamed, “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL”. What followed was thirty-eight excruciating minutes of terror. An ordered world [Read more...]

Posted in: Family & Friendship, Life & Work, Praise and Thanks, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anxiety, apology, confession, Faith, fear, Hawaii, joy, love, Matthew 6:34, missle, North Korea, prayer, Proverbs 10:6, Psalm 5:11, terror, thankful, Tv, worry

Black Friday Brawl: Five Things to Focus on When You Are on The Brink of Losing Your Christmas Joy

December 10, 2017 by Loree

 It’s two weeks to Christmas people! Does that statement make your worry level rise or your heart flutter with joy? Does it make your head spin and your tension explode like the top of a pressure [Read more...]

Posted in: Life & Work, Peace, Praise and Thanks, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anxiety, Black Friday, Christmas, competition, Focus, gifts, happiness, holiday, Jesus, John 10:10, joy, love, promises, Psalm 16:11, rush, Santa, stress, thankful, worry
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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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