Around the Table with Shauna Niequist (a trio of reviews)
Bittersweet actually sat in a stack of books on my bedroom floor for almost a year before I dug out the decadent looking blue cover. But once I opened its pages, I couldn’t put it down.
Search Results for: Natasha Metzler
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A Peek Into Our Personalities
Did you know that more than half of the current Kindred Grace writing team are firstborns? 10 are oldests, and 3 more are firstborn girls! When we first started brainstorming for “A Peek Into Your Personality“, we realized that as much diversity as there was in our team, a lot of us had birth order…
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Search and Rescue: how you can be part of ending human trafficking
Sometimes I forget. I sit on my couch, and read about the thousands and thousands of women and children who are enslaved. Once in a while, it strikes close to home. Human trafficking doesn’t just happen “over there”. It happens here. Right here in our backyards all the time. I feel so helpless. So desperate….
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when anxieties are like dustbunnies
It’s 3am and my heart is restless with anxieties that grow and multiply in the dark like dustbunnies under my bed. I suspect that most of us who wage war with anxiety know from painful and personal experience that dustbunnies of, well, dust are easier to manage than dustbunnies of anxiety. The dusty kind are…
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Dear Me
The blogosphere has been full of letters to our teenage selves this past week, in celebration of Emily Freeman’s new book Graceful (For Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life. And it was quite a trip down memory lane for some of the writers here at YLCF who decided to join in. We’ve collected some excerpts for you…
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Redefining Redemption
My story isn’t a Hollywood one: I didn’t marry my first love or end up with my best friend. In fact, my story is still being written — but I have the best part already. My ‘happily ever after’ is starting now, right here in the middle of my manuscript. Several years ago I suffered…
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Love Stories
Wondering if true love still exists? We believe that true love, real freedom, and authentic identity can be found only in the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And we know that God still writes the best love stories. What if you could have your faith restored in a God Who still delights…
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Meet the Kindred Grace Team
Each of the women God has provided through the years to encourage and challenge the Kindred Grace community bring unique experiences and perspectives. Some are single, some young married moms, and some have been married for years. All are an “older woman” to someone. The diversity of our writers – and readers – is beautiful….
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When All You Want for Christmas is a Baby
Ever since we got married, I dreamed of Christmas with children. I love Christmas. Always have. Partly because my parents always labored to protect us from materialism by focusing less on the presents beneath the tree and more on stuffing the season with traditions like trimming the tree together, making a gingerbread house, and watching…
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To the Mama Who Already Feels Overwhelmed by Her Resolutions
I’m sitting here at four in the morning writing you this letter. My two month old got sick and threw up all over my side of the bed. I’m now on the couch, with a towel on the floor beside me in case she has another round. I’m in a medium amount of pain because…
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How to Respond to Correction from Other Believers
I was confronted not long ago by a fellow Believer. She questioned my actions in a situation and then gave me Scripture references to back up her words. She wasn’t mean, or spiteful in any way, but of course it still hurt. This wasn’t the first time this has happened. In fact, over the course…
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How to Be An Introverted Mother with an Extroverted Daughter
After many years of infertility, my husband and I finally brought home a daughter. She was eight years old, adorable, precious, and…extroverted. A few months went by without any issues because, hello! I had a daughter. Of course she can talk to me nonstop, of course she can be attached to my side 24-7, of…
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