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    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
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    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • Homecoming 2009
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Family,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Special Needs Parenting,  The Preschool Years

    Still Messy…Still Beautiful {the rebrand that’s not really a rebrand}

    / April 8, 2019 / 2 Comments

    But isn't that the point, really? Because you can brand a website, but you can't brand your life. You can create a style sheet for your blog, but you can't create a style…

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  • Messy Faith,  Motherhood,  Mothering Through Fatigue,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Special Needs Parenting

    How do you pursue a relationship with God when you’re exhausted?

    / July 26, 2018 / 4 Comments

    Over the last few posts in my series, Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith, I feel that I’ve done the best I can do to present theologically-sound, Scripturally-based truth about pursuing…

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Regeneration: transforming the way you look at your spiritual identity

    / June 22, 2018 / 0 Comments

    Regeneration. Congratulations. If you have even clicked on this post I admire your bravery in tackling a big scary Bible word. Even growing up in a Bible-saturated environment like I did, I admit…

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Approaching the spiritual disciplines with grace and expectancy

    / June 5, 2018 / 0 Comments

    At our March 2017 care group meeting, our discussion turned toward the topic of spiritual disciplines. By definitions, “spiritual disciplines” are generally those things that should be habitual to the Christian walk: reading…

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    {More} creative faith and Bible journaling resources

    / May 16, 2018 / 1 Comment

    It’s been over two years since I first talked about Bible journaling here on the blog. I haven’t spent nearly as much time on this as I would like, but I wanted to…

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Christian living post-legalism: how I got stuck in my “walk with God”

    / January 21, 2018 / 0 Comments

    The practical struggle of everyday Christian living when you are a recovering legalist When I spent two and a half months in 2013 fleshing out the theology of grace while telling my personal…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    How to deal with spiritual abuse triggers at church

    / October 29, 2017 / 3 Comments

    Nearly every Sunday morning I sit down in the pews of our church with ease, knowing that I am safe and loved. But that doesn’t keep me from sometimes being blindsided with songs,…

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    A Messy Prayer in the Wake of the Nashville Statement

    / August 31, 2017 / 3 Comments

    In the wee hours of the morning, I had an incredible dream. I feel like it so deeply depicts my heart in this current political and religious climate, especially this week after the…

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Redemption Stories

    Face to Face: A Messy Tribute to the Place I First Met God

    / August 15, 2017 / 5 Comments

    If you have ever been on my blog before, you probably know that I feel like I have a complicated “faith story.” (If you are new to my blog, you might want to…

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  • Family,  Friendship & Community,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Stained Glass Masquerade: 6 Reasons We Left Our Church

    / July 17, 2017 / 10 Comments

    To continue on telling the story of how a recovering legalist moves forward in faith, I must share the steps (and missteps) that our family taken in regard to church. What I will…

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