Designer Baby Only, Please

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By Contributing Writer, Bambi Moore In just a few more weeks I won’t be able to see my toes. It wasn’t long ago that the tiny punches and kicks were an intimate secret shared by my baby and I alone. Now they are forceful enough to be felt by the strong hands of daddy, as [...]

Miscarriage…For the Glory of God

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By Contributing Writer, Tina Entz I lay stone still in the darkness, just as I had so many times before.  The walls were closing in.  The grief within me was suffocating.  I wanted to cry out and beg someone out there to hear me, to really understand the agony of my soul.  Instead, The house was [...]

A Story of Cancer, Adoption, Death, and Hope

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Some of you already know about this story.  For those who don’t, it is an incredible and moving story of faith and hope that culminated in the death of a 14 year old boy yesterday.  BUT the story is NOT over!  There’s an eternal component that will not be known in all its amazing fullness [...]

Are You Hurting?

While I try to figure out what to share with you next, I encourage you to go over to Your Sacred Calling to read a VERY encouraging post…especially soothing if you are in the midst of any kind of pain in your heart.  I’ll post a teaser here…and then you can follow the link below [...]

Feelin’ Lousy and Lovin’ It

I’m home!  God was MERCIFUL in allowing me to fly home with three of my children on Monday afternoon.  On top of all the other camping issues, morning sickness hit me last Friday afternoon.  (Wasn’t expecting that until this week…)  It proved to be too much. I can handle a lot when I’m healthy and [...]

Rise to Bless You Still Part 3

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Mallie and Kyla As the storm raged, I could hear my siblings crying out for mom and me. I was broken-hearted. I couldn’t get to them. I couldn’t hold them or tell them that God would see us through. I couldn’t dry their tears and rock them. I just sat helplessly, shaking and praying that [...]

Rise to Bless You Still Part 1

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Beauty for Ashes As the early morning sun caressed the foothills of the Appalachian mountains that Thursday, it revealed utter devastation as far as I could see. The trees that once casted shadows lay piled in a heap, roots jutted into the air.  Instead of birds and critters stirring in the full green boughs, there was [...]