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It’s About the Practice
Growing with Your Strengths to Be Your Best As a middle schooler I wanted to go to the Juilliard School of Music as a Flute Performance Major. I knew what I wanted so I practiced twice as long as I was instructed to and gradually increased until I was practicing 2-hours a day. Often I…
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Stuck It Out or Hide under the Table?
I wanted to crawl under the table. My first official volunteer opportunity to sit on a Board of Directors, a bucket-list item for me, was only a few months underway and I was way over my head. It was during the Covid-19 Pandemic so each member of the board sat at tables distanced from each…
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Guard your Heart and Find the Skill
She was melting at the table, forecasting her own demise. “I’m terrible at this and I’ll always be terrible at this,” she yelled over her homework, her little 7-year-old body sinking into a puddle of despair. We have all been there. Something is just a bit too difficult and we determine our outcome based on…
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Virus or What?
Day 74 – I have been processing and praying about how to write about the Covid-19. Let’s face it. It seems to be infiltrating every conversation and action in our communities and in our churches. When it comes to anxiety in the midst of a crisis (emotional and spiritual) I get on my knees and…
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Recipe Time: GF, DF Banana Bread
Day 9 – I am a very “free” person. I am dairy-free, soy-free and sometimes gluten-free and sugar-free. Some of my free-ness comes from my mold allergy/muscle fatigue/who knows what my stomach tolerates stuff. I have to be essential-oils free, too, if I want to keep breathing. When I first was so restricted, I remember…
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2019 Evaluation
This past year I embarked on two new things. The first one was to plan out our generosity. What a joy it has been to remind ourselves to let our finances live with purpose. Planning has helped me give without strings attached, instead of hoping to receive a reward for giving. Because, why do we…
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Marriage in the Midst of Loss
Two little birds and two mini stockings hang on our Christmas tree. My two little girls decorated the tree with me this year. Their quick hands clasp around my two glass bird ornaments and before I knew it, the birds were headed for low branches. “No, Girls,” I said. “These birds go up high. They…
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Go Ahead. Yell.
Key Verse: I yell out to my God. I yell with all my might. I yell at the top of my lungs. He listens. Psalm 77: 1 (MSG) My 18-month-old’s panicked cries reached my ears. As I reached the play room, two fear-struck eyes and little hands thrust out towards me, desperate for help. Immediately,…
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Be Alert and Arise
What would it be like to be alert in an instant, to rise from deep slumber in one quiet, quick move and to hold the gaze of what is before you? Today I met a lioness. My heart beat quicker, my movements slowed and I was in awe. I recently finished listening to Lisa…
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Best Intentions
It’s the first day of kindergarten and I wanted to be on it. With my alarm set for earlier than my “pre-kinder” life, I planned on making my oldest lunch, brewing coffee and spending a few sweet moments with my Jesus. Three hours before my alarm sounded my youngest made herself known, followed by her…
Stephanie Trowbridge 