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what is the cost of resisting the harvest?
What do we do when faced with the consequences of our boundaries? What happens when it’s painful to be misunderstood or not given the benefit of the doubt. When people you love continue to choose to believe the worst or at the very least don’t seem to care to find out the truth. How do…
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🌿Meadow Tea Lemonade Concentrate
This is the recipe for our family’s favorite summertime drink! This recipe to make a meadow tea concentrate is my favorite way to use up all the summertime abundance of mint leaves! My family loves to drink this tea year round and we do because it is so easy to freeze! 🛒 Ingredient List 🥄…
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raising meat birds
Last fall my son started showing interest in incubating + hatching chickens. It went like a lot of his hobbies usually do … it became all consuming and he was all in on researching + educating himself so we went with it. Made it into a mini unit for school. He incubated and hatched some…
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| my limited perception |
A few years ago when I took the Minister of Children position, I had my first taste of discrimination. It pales in comparison to what many experience, not here to pretend to compare, but to say it opened my eyes. A friendship changed after taking that position as a woman on a ministry team and…
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| but by My power |
A few weeks ago in a blog post I mentioned that during a church service one night I came to a turning point. A decision, a place I needed to get to on my own where I felt God saying to me “How many times Bethany? How often will we go around about this.” At…
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be real + stay real | flex series | live authentically | redefine | renew my mind | to know + be known
| my story for His glory |
During an extremely difficult season of church ministry I received a mental picture from the Lord. It was so direct. So specific. So me, that I couldn’t have forgot it even if I wanted to. And let’s be clear I don’t EVER want to. This revelation came to me at such a confusing, foggy, what-is-even-happening-right-now…
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master bedroom in the process
I just spent 2 hours this morning folding the 10+ loads of laundry that covered the rug and chair in our bedroom, changing our bed sheets, and cleaning our room. Our bedroom that has been stripped of wall paper but still needs patched and new paint. Our floors that got ripped up to the original…
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| grieving during pruning |
Pruning. If you read in John 15 you’ll see. You must be bearing fruit in order to be pruned. Otherwise you are like a branch cut off. Pruning towards growth. Pruning for extension. Pruning not because you did something wrong but because you are doing something right. Been feeling like the an…
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live in our spaces
Three times a day these bottles show up in this same spot. I usually love to have clutter free counters and stuff in its place. Outward order brings inward calm. You get the idea. This bottle battle … I’m surrendering. Turns out sometimes outward order is just a shift in our perspective and some grace…
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be real + stay real | live authentically | pivot series | redefine | renew my mind | to know + be known
| into the fire and over my fears |
Last fall, right before my open house I shared a post with you guys about how each year I do something more to prepare for the holiday season. Each year I try to be better prepared, try to make it easier on Scotty, on my family, on me, on my emotions, on my body. You…
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| uncomfortable but not unsafe |
Did I think because I was doing what He called me to do I might need a higher SPF? Like it’s sunnier where I am? Did I expect that He’d pull out the umbrella for me because I am obedient to His call?
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be real + stay real | live authentically | pivot series | redefine | renew my mind | to know + be known
| recognizing the purpose in brokenness |
There have been days in the past when I wished I had a t-shirt that said “Today is not the day. And I am not the one.” And then I would wish that I had the guts to wear it… If I’m really honest, I’ve had strings of days like that, maybe because of a…
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| a definition of Hope |
I’m beginning to recognize as I mature, as I learn to listen, as I challenge myself to take time to seek and dig deep, the bible stories I grew up hearing and being told; come at me, come to life, and come apart in ways only the Bible, the LIVING and ACTIVE Word of God,…
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| pivot that determines the path |
Picture this. Walking fast, with purpose, heels clicking, boots stomping, arms swinging, confident this is the way until, wham! Smack dab into a glass door. Surprised, head hurting I wonder “Where’d that come from?” Or maybe this. Walking fast, with purpose, heels clicking, boots stomping, arms swinging, confident there is no other way, but…
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| climbing the staircases of life |
I’ve climbed staircases in my life, literal ones. The one in my childhood home that stopped on a landing at the front door of our bi-level and then up to the living room. The one in our farmhouse apartment, curved and with gaps in the wooden steps where crickets would get stuck in the summertime…
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| setting boundaries with kids |
This morning one of my children missed the bus. It pulled up, squeaked to a stop, blew the horn, and had me running to the door to just wave them on. Much to my frustration but to the happiness of the long line of cars who would have needed to wait for my kid to…
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| the power of the choice of which voice |
Listen. Everyday, during every conversation, because of a misunderstanding and in almost every relationship, we can find ourselves at the mercy of another’s words, another person’s thoughts and perceptions, or misconceptions. That reality makes me want to crawl in a hole and hide. Being misunderstood is probably one of my biggest fears. Recently I…
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| when only God knows |
Many times I’ve heard the exasperated phrases “God only knows what she was thinking when she did that.” or “God knows what’s going on.” Some kind of offhand remarks for questions like What is going on? Or what was she thinking? While doing a little self reflection, I must consider how many times I’ve thought…
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be real + stay real | live authentically | love of a mother | redefine | renew my mind | to know + be known
| let your glory come alive, be magnified |
I’ve got a new favorite song. It’s powerful and maybe it’s just me and where I find myself right now, but it can bring me to my knees almost every time I listen to it. This song has been constantly on my mind these last few weeks. I’m struck by the idea of what so…
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| the gift of feeling my soul’s worth |
“’Til He appeared and the soul felt it’s worth” Every year when I’m decorating for Christmas at my home, I usually decorate with a chalkboard. I try to come up with a verse, chorus, or line from a Christmas carol or the Bible and display it for the season. Ever want to get a carol…
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| when silence is golden |
By nature I’m a talker, energetic, excited- an extrovert. I love to talk, to problem solve, to help, to fix. I thrive because of relationships. Wanna talk deep, laugh loud, cry- I’m your girl. Because of this I am often vulnerable, emotional, usually stretched too emotionally thin. I take on responsibility that isn’t mine,…
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| pallet wall project |
According to dictionary.com According to Bethany It’s a beautiful mess. Last week we tackled our first major pallet project by transforming a section of our garage wall into a display wall where I can take pictures of furniture and home decor for my shop. Major plus is that I don’t have to make lots…
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| when God softens my heart |
Have you ever physically experienced your heart softening? Like it gets a little tight, maybe you get warm, your throat chokes up, and you just get all the good feels? Thinking back I’ve probably experienced it so many times and just wasn’t aware, but for some reason today I felt what was happening. I have…
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