4187 Love the In-Between
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Have you ever paused in front of a mirror and thought, almost? Almost healed. Almost confident. Almost the woman you know you're meant to be — but not quite there yet. That pause, that space between where you were and where you're going, can feel like the loneliest place in the world. But what if that's actually one of the most sacred places where you need to love the in-between? Because most of us have been taught — by the world, by our own expectations, sometimes even by voices inside the church or community or your job or your family — that we earn the right to love who we see only...
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4186 Lead with Your Gifts
Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo
There is something inside of you that the world needs. Not the version of you that has been shaped and polished by degrees, training programs, and years of professional experience — though those things matter. But it runs deeper. Before you ever sat in a classroom or clocked into your first job, God planted something in you that was never meant to collect dust; lead with your gifts. Too many of us have spent years building lives around what we've learned while quietly setting aside what we've been given. We show up to work with our skill sets. We volunteer with our expertise. We check the...
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4185 And That's A Wrap!
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You cross the finish line. You hit the milestone. You reach that thing you've been praying over, grinding toward, and believing God for — and you exhale. And that's a wrap. Or is it? When you accomplish a goal or finally touch a long-held dream, do you stop? Do you sit down, dust off your hands, and call it done? Or does something inside you whisper, "There's more?" It's very interesting how we see life. The moments can feel like a year, when it might have been only a day. But nothing worth having comes in a moment. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join...
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4184 Come and See
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There are seasons in life when the darkness feels closer than it should. When the weight of what you're walking through presses in from every side and you start to wonder if the light you once felt so sure of is still there. Maybe it's grief. Maybe it's uncertainty. Maybe it's a weariness that has settled so deeply into your bones that you can't remember what rest feels like. Wherever you are right now, whatever shadow has crept into the edges of your story, do something simple and holy — come and see. Come and see that the light has not gone out. Desire to be supported and encouraged by...
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4183 Don't Let the Calendar Replace the Connection
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You married your best friend. You chose each other. And somewhere along the way, the life you're building together started pulling you apart — not because the love faded, but because everything else got louder. You're not fighting. You're not even frustrated with each other most days. You're just missing each other; sitting in the same house but living in different rhythms. And that quiet distance? It didn't happen because of one bad day. It happened one full week at a time. So when life crowds in on your marriage, don't let the calendar replace the connection. However, the biggest threat to...
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4182 Listening Is Love
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It's not that unheard of to want to explain everything to your children. We carry decades of life behind us, and we think if we can just say the right thing at the right time, we can spare them the pain. But regardless of their age and stage of life, what they need is your presence. Not your lecture. Not your five-point plan. Your presence; listening is love. You don't have to have all the answers. You don't have to be the problem-solver every single time. What they need from you is ears to hear. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . ...
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4181 The Heat Is On
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There are moments in life when everything feels like it's pressing in — the deadlines, the demands, the weight of expectations, and the relentless pace that never seems to slow down. And right in the middle of all of it, you realize something: the heat is on. Not just the kind that comes from outside pressure, but the kind that rises from within, the fire that tells you it's time to move, to grow, to step into the fullness of who you are and who you are created to be. No matter what happens in your day, at some point you have to be willing to go the extra mile, play full out, and do whatever...
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4180 The Soil No One Talks About
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People will tell you about the blooming, the breakthrough, and the moment they finally stepped into the calling God placed on their life, where everything clicks because He has been planning it all along. But nobody really talks about the soil no one talks about — the stuff underneath the surface that made the bloom possible in the first place. The seasons that felt more like a burial than planting. The prayers that seemed to bounce off the ceiling. The plans you laid out in good faith that God, in His gentle sovereignty, folded up and tucked away. And if you've been in one of those...
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4179 Set the Pace for Your Daily Race
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Have you ever watched a tennis match and noticed the winner isn't always the one hitting the hardest? Sometimes it's the one who knows when to slow down, when to push forward, and when to reset between points. With the US Open in full swing right now, there's no better time to be reminded that the way we approach our daily lives mirrors what's happening on those courts in Flushing Meadows. It's time to set the pace for your daily race — not someone else's, not the world's, but the one God specifically designed for you. Tennis is a game of rhythm. Every elite player has a routine between...
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4178 Laboring For What Lasts
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There's something beautifully ironic about Labor Day. It's the one day of the year when we're told to stop laboring — to set down the to-do list, fire up the grill, and just breathe. But as the burgers sizzle and the kids splash in the last pool days of summer, a quiet question has a way of surfacing: What am I really working for? Today, as we celebrate the gift of rest, let's talk about Laboring for What Lasts — and why the answer to that question shapes everything. Jesus said it plainly in Matthew 6:21 (NIV): "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Desire to be...
info_outlineThere are those days when you don't feel like a patriot. Instead, you feel like a referee, a short-order cook, a lost-and-found department for one sock, three chargers, and somebody's retainer. There are evenings when the dinner table looks less like the heartbeat of a nation and more like a negotiation between two very strong-willed people who share your DNA and absolutely refuse to eat what you made. And somewhere in the middle of the dinner, dishes, and dogs, you forget that what you're doing matters. So let's remember together —the home front.
The Declaration They Never Tell You About
On July 4th, 1776, fifty-six men signed their names to a document that would change the world. We celebrate them every year, and rightly so.
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But there is another declaration being written — quietly, daily, in kitchens and minivans and bedrooms and backyards all across this country. It doesn't have a single author. It doesn't hang in a museum. It's written in the habits you're building, the values you're repeating, the moments you show up even when you're exhausted and nobody is watching, and nobody is clapping.
It's the declaration of your family.
And if it had words, it might sound something like this:
We hold these truths to be the foundation of our home: that every person under this roof is seen, known, and deeply loved. That we will tell the truth even when it's hard, show up even when it's inconvenient, and choose each other even when it costs us something. That we will fight for this family the way soldiers fight for their country — with everything we have — because the stakes are just as high and the cause is just as worthy. We pledge to these walls, to these people, and to the God who gave them to us, our full hearts, our imperfect best, and our unshakeable commitment to keep trying.
That is not a small document. That is the bravest thing most of us will ever write — even if it never gets written down at all.
Family Is the Heartbeat of America
You want to know the real foundation of this nation? It was never just the Constitution. It was never just the military, the economy, or the institutions. It was always the home.
John Adams understood this. One of the most decorated founders in American history credited not a fellow statesman but his own mother for who he became. John Adams is credited with saying the following:
"All that I am, my mother made me."
Not Congress. Not a university. Not a policy or a program. His mother. Four words that carry the full weight of what happens inside a home when someone decides to take the long view and pour themselves into another human being.
Abigail Adams — one of the most remarkable women in American history, who raised children while her husband was away building a nation — wrote to her son John Quincy with words that sound less like a letter and more like a commission:
"These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed."
Great characters are not formed in easy seasons. They are formed in the hard ones — in the arguing and the correcting and the apologizing and the trying again. They are formed at dinner tables where someone insists on honesty. In bedrooms where someone prays over a sleeping child. In the car, on the way to school, in the ten-minute conversation that the child will remember for the rest of their life and the parent will forget by Tuesday.
That's where great characters are made. In your home. By you.
You Are on the Front Line
Let's be clear about something: a soldier on the front line is not there because it's comfortable. They are there because the thing behind them is worth defending. They plant their feet in hard ground, face what is coming, and hold the line — not for glory, but because they love what's at stake.
Moms and dads, that is you.
You are not on the sidelines of history. You are not in a supporting role. You are on the front line of the most important battle being fought in America right now — the battle for the hearts, minds, and souls of the next generation. Nobody else can fight it for you. Nobody else has your assignment. The child at your table is not a coincidence. They are your post.
The K.I.S.S. ~ The home front declaration!
Moses didn't leave this to chance. Before the Israelites entered the promised land, before they built cities or established government or wrote laws, God gave them a charge that started at home:
"And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." (Deuteronomy 6:6–7)
When you sit. When you walk. When you lie down. When you rise. In other words — always. In the ordinary, unremarkable, un-photographed moments of daily life. That is where a generation is shaped. That is where a nation is either strengthened or slowly hollowed out.
The enemy of the family has always known this. That's why the home is the target.
Which means the home must also be the stronghold.
The Imperfect Patriot in the Kitchen
Here is the confession at the center of all of this: you are going to get it wrong sometimes.
You are going to lose your patience on a day when you needed to keep it. You are going to say the thing you can't take back, miss the moment you can't rewind, and go to bed wondering if you're doing any of this right. You are going to have seasons when the family you're building looks nothing like the one you pictured, and the gap between your ideals and your reality will feel embarrassingly wide.
Welcome to the front line. It has always been messy here.
The founders weren't perfect men. The nation they built was not a perfect nation. But they kept showing up to the vision, kept tending the thing they'd planted, kept believing that the experiment was worth the effort. And 250 years later, we are the evidence that their imperfect faithfulness mattered.
Your imperfect faithfulness matters too.
The nights you got it wrong and went back to apologize — that's being mom. The days you held the line when it would have been easier to give in — that's being mom. The prayers you've prayed over children who have no idea you're praying for them — that's being mom. The ten-thousand ordinary moments of choosing your family over everything else competing for your attention — that is the declaration of your home, signed in real time, every day.
Don't You Dare Underestimate This
As America turns 250, we celebrate the generals and the statesmen, the documents and the monuments, all that got us to where we are today.
But the truest monuments in this country are not made of marble. They are made of people — people who were raised in homes where someone decided they were worth fighting for.
The home is the heartbeat of America. And the heartbeat only keeps beating because someone is tending it. And that someone is you!
So on the days when it feels like nothing — when the laundry is unfolded, and the argument is unresolved, and the vision feels very far away — remember that you are not just raising children. You are planting citizens. You are shaping souls. You are writing the next chapter of something that started 250 years ago and depends, in ways you cannot fully see, on what happens inside your four walls.
The founders bet everything on a dream they could not guarantee.
You are the evidence, though, that it was worth it.
Now go be the evidence for the generation coming after you.
"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." (Joshua 24:15)
Don't let this be just a wooden sign hung on a wall. Let it be the home front declaration, and then be willing to sign it every day.
"Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!"
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