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The Power of Fear—Why Disney’s Closure Causes Panic

March 15, 2020 by Loree

The Coronavirus conspiracy theories fly. The realities soak in as more sicken. And there remains—Not even a scrap. Of Toilet paper. To be purchased. Anywhere. The toilet paper catastrophe [Read more...]

Posted in: Peace, Praise and Thanks, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: boa constrictor, Chick-Fil-A, coronavirus, Disney is closed, fear, Mickey, Psalm 23, Psalm 26:3, toilet paper crisis

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

“Where are you God?”–Finding the Beauty of Nature in Rwanda (#2)

September 18, 2018 by Loree

“Where are you God?” Frustrated, fearful and despairing—bitter words we all know familiar—gush forth as they sneak into our souls. Our head tells us he is there. But in our core, we don’t feel his [Read more...]

Posted in: africa, Praise and Thanks, Pursuit of All Things Godly, Travel Tagged: Anne Frank, anxiety, be present, beauty, calm, comfort, despair, faithful, fear, frustrated, garden, gifts, hard, healing, heaven, optimism, Psalm 23, Rwanda, savor, scars, slow, soak, sunrise, sunset, thankful, wisdom

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

Good or Bad? The All Seeing Eye of God

April 8, 2018 by Loree

I came around the corner and Bam! There it sat in all it’s bulging glory—a ginormous two story eyeball loitering with nonchalance in the grassy space. Talk about unnerving. The icy blue stare seemed [Read more...]

Posted in: Praise and Thanks, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: fear, grace, joy, love, mercy, mess, pain, Psalm 139:1-12, rebellion, sees, Sin, thankful, wash sins, weep

Living Fearless: How to Banish Guilt and Shame

March 13, 2018 by Loree

"Who has the weirdest item in your purse?" "And the winner is…a dental tray?? Whaaat?" Laughing until your sides ache, playing a raucous game of purse scavenger hunt, sprinkled with wise words [Read more...]

Posted in: Family & Friendship, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: 2 Timothy 1:7, anxiety, Brene Brown, choice, comparison, control, Faith, fear, free, guilt, joy, Ladies Retreat, laugh, promises, Psalm 119:96, Psalm 68:19, shame

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

2018 Olympic Update: How the Bobsled Reminds me of the Secret Sauce to Finding Peace

February 24, 2018 by Loree

2018 Olympic Update: I'm obsessed with the Olympics. While watching the bobsled last night I couldn't believe last summer, I hurtled down a 103 foot vertical drop on the track from the 2002 Winter [Read more...]

Posted in: Peace, Praise and Thanks, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly, Travel Tagged: anxiety, bobsled, fear, Olympics, Park City Utah, peace, prayer, Psalm 5:3-4, stress, terror, thankful, thrill, tubing, yes, zip line

How to Cope When the Grief of the World Weighs You Down: 4 Crucial Verses

February 18, 2018 by Loree

We all know someone with cancer as it runs like wild horses through our towns, our churches, our families, our selves. Our children sicken and die of the flu of all the blasted things. And cars wreck [Read more...]

Posted in: Peace, prayer, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: 1966, anxiety, cancer, Faith, fear, flu, Isaiah 41:10, marriages, pain, prayer, Psalm 23:4, Psalm 34:4, Psalm 91:14-16, school shooting, statistics, suffering, trust, University of Texas
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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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