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Redemption Stories

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

August 15, 2017 by Aprille 1 Comment

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 start here.) After walking away from “fundamentalism” in my mid-twenties, I’m now in the process of letting God reconstruct my faith as … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Redemption Stories Tagged: Bible, camp, church, faith, god, hell, messy faith, peniel bible camp, scripture, summer

Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith

June 29, 2017 by Aprille 2 Comments

A few weeks ago a fellow faith blogger asked me to write a guest blog for her some time about my faith journey. “I’m particularly interested in your journey to finding Jesus…how grace has changed your life…or something of that nature.” I readily agreed. That was a month ago and I haven’t written a word…until now. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Redemption Stories Tagged: church, faith, grace, legalism

Easter Grace: how God shows up in jelly beans and covers my mistakes

April 16, 2017 by Aprille Leave a Comment

This morning I drove to church – alone, feeling guilty. Between working all week on moving things over to our new house and my having to play the piano for both Easter services at our church this morning, “Easter” activities for the kids got the short end of the stick… By short end, I mean … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Ezra, Messy Faith, Motherhood, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Redemption Stories, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: church, Easter, Ezra, piano, resurrection, special needs

What America Means to this Veteran’s Family

July 3, 2016 by Aprille 1 Comment

As I write this, I am in the backseat of our minivan on the way home from our family’s 4th of July Summer vacation. For now, everyone is behaving. My heart is full, but I am unsure quite where to begin. Every patriotic holiday evokes emotion for us, but Independence Day is the happiest. It is … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Beauty in the Mess, Ezra, Family, Fatherhood, Independence Day, Little Brother, Military and Veteran Life, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Redemption Stories, Special Needs Parenting, Travel Tagged: 4th of july, america, beach, Ezra, family, fatherhood, independence-day, little brother, north carolina, oak island, ocean, strawberries, trip, USO

No Matter What, I Believe: On Broken Faith and Healing Birth

October 31, 2015 by Aprille 6 Comments

August 25, 2015 – 39 weeks, 6 days I had originally planned to title this post “Strong enough? Finding the balance between female empowerment and dependence on God.” And I’m going to talk about that, I promise. But I realize, at 1 day shy of 40 weeks up at 5:30AM having contractions, that I can’t … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Hope: One Word for 2015, Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Pregnancy & Birth, Redemption Stories Tagged: cesarean, church, faith, god, TOLAC, VBAC

Redemption Stories: A Time of Need and the Friendship I Gained

December 11, 2014 by Aprille 9 Comments

Christmastime last year was a very difficult one for me. My husband was working a low-end temporary job making $15 an hour – with no time off for the holidays (not even Thanksgiving or Christmas). We had no Veteran’s benefits coming in yet. Neither of us had healthcare. We were living in an 850 square … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Christmas, Friendship & Community, Messy Faith, Redemption Stories, Writing and blogging Tagged: blogging, christmas, friendship, provision, redemption, redemption stories

Redemption Stories {A New Blog Series}

November 19, 2014 by Aprille 10 Comments

I think that there’s still a way to keep telling my story. To keep sharing openly and vulnerably. To shift focus more onto the beauty and still honor others in the telling.

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Posted in: Allume 2014, Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Redemption Stories Tagged: redemption, redemption stories

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