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A thrill of hope {my #oneword365 recap, end of the year highlights, and top posts of 2015}

December 17, 2015 by Aprille 1 Comment

In contrast to years 2013 and 2014, I didn’t write at all about my one word for 2015 – hope. Partially because I sort of forgot. Partially because I was blogging less. Partially because I was busy. I thought about just leaving it in the archives and letting it die. But yesterday, I was driving … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Ezra, Family, Hope: One Word for 2015, Little Brother, Messy Faith, Miscellaneous, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: 2015, ezra, family, hope, little brother

Broken faith: more of my testimony and what God has done (and is doing) for me

January 20, 2015 by Aprille 16 Comments

What’s your testimony? What has God done for you? I’m unsure how to answer the questions posed by a trusted counselor. In the past the story of my testimony has been the “easy” answer to the church-ese question: When did you get saved? I’ve never shared the answer here because my testimony is so much … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Hope: One Word for 2015, Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings Tagged: brokenness, faith, fear, grace, hope, legalism, recovery, salvation, testimony

Hope: One Word for 2015

January 1, 2015 by Aprille 7 Comments
Hope: one word for 2015

I started out 2014 seeing a lot of hurdles to climb. I saw a lot of stuff within our home that was messy, hard, frustrating, and unpleasant. A lot of days looked hopeless. My husband was working a low-paying temporary job. We hadn’t yet learned how to navigate the veterans benefits system. I didn’t have healthcare. We … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Hope: One Word for 2015, Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings Tagged: answered prayer, doubts, faith, hope, provision

Hope

September 10, 2014 by Aprille 2 Comments

I don’t know if I fully believe that hope can change everything. But at least for the last three days, I’ve felt a spark of hope.

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Hopeless no longer

April 15, 2014 by Aprille 7 Comments

And now this hangs above the very spot where I prayed a prayer out of complete hopelessness.

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Posted in: Family, Finding "Home" in 2013, Messy Faith, Military and Veteran Life, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings Tagged: anxiety, combat veteran, god, hope, hopelessness, prayer

On Writing Vulnerably ~ Part 2: The Motivation

December 13, 2013 by Aprille 20 Comments

This is why I write vulnerably, raw, and exposed. To offer hope by letting people know that they aren’t alone.

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Posted in: Writing and blogging Tagged: blogging, hope, lies, writing

Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 03.24.13

March 24, 2013 by Aprille 4 Comments

Is life ever not messy? For the first time in days I actually find myself with a moment of quiet and access to my computer, but words are failing me to fully express the mess that has been my life, our lives, for the past few weeks. All I can say that it’s been messy. There … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Beauty in the Mess, Ezra, Family, Marriage, Messy Faith Tagged: anniversary, books, cats, cheesecake, coffee mugs, cuddles, dandelions, date day, date night, Ezra, hair, hope, jewelry, meatballs, no 'poo, pinterest, pinterest party, playdates, provision, roses, sledding, snow, strawberry lemonade, walks

Faith…refreshed

December 12, 2012 by Aprille 13 Comments

Celebrating the birth of Christ this year has been not only a natural response, but the ONLY response I possibly could have to God after all He’s done for me this year.

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Posted in: Christmas, Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings Tagged: addiction, christmas, church, freedom, gym, hope, jesus, joy, legalism, MOPS, pagan, paganism, peace, perfectionism, PWOC, sunrise, wandering

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