4189 Find Your Calm in the Chaos of Parenting
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Every parent knows that moment when the house is loud, the demands are relentless, someone is crying, and you're not entirely sure it isn't you. Parenting was never meant to be quiet or perfectly composed, but somewhere between the sippy cups and the slammed doors, you can find your calm in the chaos of parenting. Not a calm that pretends everything is fine, but a calm that holds steady because it's rooted in something deeper than the moment. Raising kids takes every ounce of dedication and determination you have. It pulls from reserves you didn't know existed and asks you to pour out again...
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4188 Unpack the Old
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There is something about this time of year that stirs up a sense of possibility. The air shifts, routines reset, and whether you have children heading back to school or not, fall carries with it a quiet invitation to begin again. But you cannot step into something new if your arms are full of everything old; unpack the old and leave it behind. Think about the last time you traveled with too many bags. Every doorway became an obstacle. Every step felt heavier than it needed to. You spent more energy managing your luggage than enjoying the journey. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other...
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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
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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...
info_outlineWhen was the last time you looked at yourself, really looked and didn't flinch? It's not the quick glance in the rearview mirror to check your lipstick or the passing reflection in a storefront window where you tug at your shirt and keep walking. It's the kind of looking that requires stillness. The kind of seeing that asks you to stay. Because you, my friend, are the woman in the water, and the only reason you can't see her clearly is because you won't stop stirring.
We live stirred-up lives. We stir with busyness. We stir with worry. We stir with comparison, scrolling through someone else's highlight reel and wondering why our behind-the-scenes looks so different.
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We stir with control — trying to manage every outcome, plan every step, guarantee every result. And the more we stir, the more distorted our reflection becomes. We look down into the water of our own lives, and we can't make out the woman looking back at us. She's blurry. She's broken into fragments. She doesn't look like anyone we recognize — and certainly not anyone we love unconditionally.
But you see, the water isn't the problem. The woman isn't the problem. The stirring is.
Psalm 46:10 says, "Be still, and know that I am God"
— And I wonder if we've read that verse so many times that we've stopped hearing what it's actually asking of us. It's not a suggestion. It's not a gentle nudge toward a fifteen-minute quiet time.
It's an invitation to lay down every anxious thing you're holding and trust that God is God and you are not. Being still isn't passive. It's one of the bravest things a woman can do — because stillness means you stop performing, stop managing, and stop running from whatever you're afraid you'll see if you actually look.
And this is where becoming begins.
I believe with everything in me that we are entering a season of becoming — a season where God is inviting us to go deeper than the surface, past the routines and the roles, past the titles and the to-do lists, all the way down to the roots.
But before we can grow, before the budding and the blooming and the beautiful transformation that's ahead, we have to start here. Right here. At the water's edge. Willing to be still long enough to see who's actually looking back.
Here's what I've learned about reflections — they don't lie, but they do require the right conditions. If you throw a stone into a lake, the ripples shatter the image.
But if you wait — if you have the patience and the courage to let everything settle — the water becomes a mirror. Crystal clear. Every detail visible. That's what stillness does for us. It doesn't change who we are. It reveals who we are. And for a lot of us, that's exactly what we're afraid of.
We're afraid that if we stop long enough to see ourselves clearly, we won't like what we find. We'll see the doubts we've been hiding. The insecurities we've been covering. The tiredness we've been pretending isn't bone-deep. We'll see the gap between who we are and who we thought we'd be by now. And so we keep stirring. Keep moving. Keep filling every quiet moment with noise because silence feels too honest.
But here's what the enemy doesn't want you to know — the woman in the water is not your enemy. She is not your project. She is not a problem to be solved.
She is a daughter of the Most High God, and she is right where she's supposed to be. Not perfect. Not finished. Not polished and presentable in every area. But planted. Present. Breathing. Held by a God who sees her clearly even when she won't look at herself.
Isaiah 43:1 says, "I have called you by name; you are mine."
Not you will be mine when you get it together. Not you are mine when you look the way you think you should. You are mine. Present tense. As you are. In this season. In this stillness. With this reflection.
Did you ever think that when you refuse to see yourself the way God sees you — beloved, chosen, becoming — you're not being humble? You're disagreeing with Him. And I don't know about you, but I've spent too many years arguing with God about the value of His creation.
So what does it look like to let the water settle?
It looks like turning off the noise — not forever, but long enough to hear your own heartbeat again.
It looks like sitting with the Lord without an agenda, without a prayer list, without a devotional plan, and simply asking, "Who am I right now?" Not who was I. Not who will I be.
Who am I right now — in this season, in this skin, in this story?
It looks like refusing to compare your chapter three to someone else's chapter twelve. It looks like releasing the one thing you've been gripping so tightly — the worry, the expectation, the "what if" — and watching the ripples finally, finally go still.
It looks like becoming, one breath at a time. So be still and see.
The K.I.S.S. ~ Be still and see!
Be still so the water can settle, and then you can reflect.
- Set aside ten minutes this week with no phone, no task list, and no noise — just you and the Lord — and ask Him, "Who do You say I am right now?"
- Write down three truths about who you are today — not who you were, not who you hope to be — and read them aloud to yourself.
- Release one thing you've been stirring up — one worry, one comparison, one "should" — and let the water settle.
My friend, we're beginning a journey: A season of becoming that will take us from the roots all the way to the bloom — through budding and stretching and opening and, yes, through the storms too. But it starts here. At the water's edge. With the courage to be still.
I want you to know that the woman in the water is worth seeing. She is worth knowing. She is worth loving — not the future version of her, not the cleaned-up, figured-out, fully-arrived version. This version. The one listening to the words right now. The one who showed up even though she's tired. The one who's still here even though the season has been long.
God is not waiting for you to become before He begins. He's already begun. And the first thing He's asking you to do is be still long enough to see it.
Let the water settle. Look at her. She's more beautiful than you know.
"Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!"
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