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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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  • Start Here!
    • Hi, I’m Aprille…
    • Contact Me!
    • The Story Behind the Header
    • Blog’s Mission Statement
    • Blog Series
    • Top Ten Posts of All Time
    • Legalism and Grace: How I Left the IFB Movement and Chose Grace
    • 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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    Imprints on my heart {a post about pregnancy and early miscarriage}

    / June 18, 2014 / 8 Comments

    I'm thankful for the word pregnant on an EPT. Because that was mine, and no one can ever take it away from me.

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    Miscarriage hurts – grieving my early miscarriage even years later

    / September 16, 2013 / 54 Comments

    It's still strange to say "Yes, he's our only one," when I know that's not entirely true. But most people don't want to hear about the miscarriage I had five years ago.

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    Disconnect: when God just doesn’t seem relevant

    / July 10, 2013 / 29 Comments

    Life just got a whole lot bigger and scarier. But the God I knew was still small and stuck in the box I created for him with my incomplete understanding of his grace.

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  • Christmas,  Ezra,  Pregnancy & Birth

    A New Life Begun

    / December 9, 2010 / 4 Comments

    My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and…

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