• 10 Things I’m Learning | Spring Quarantine Edition

    I hate even calling it quarantine. Yes, I’m jumping right in with this season’s What I’m Learning post inspired by Emily Freeman. I find myself less likely to sugarcoat things lately. Jumping right in. 1. Quarantine bugs me I’m not even talking about the rules and being home and the changes. Quarantine, true quarantine, is

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  • Deciding What to Keep

    Taking a good look at our hearts and laying out everything inside is the excavation work in this spring cleaning series. It’s the digging, the revealing, the heavy lifting. And now we’re asking a question: What do I do with all that’s left? Going through my closet looks so easy as I peruse Pinterest. My feed is flooded with ideas

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  • Assess the Situation

    Looking around the living room floor of my mind I am surrounded. There is stuff everywhere. Garbage mixed with forgotten gifts. Old, dirty laundry next to that special thing I had forgotten about. Clean, perfectly functional things that are covered in the cobwebs of neglect. When we’re cleaning something out things often look worse before

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  • It’s Time to Dig In and Dig Out

    I’ve deleted and retyped portions of this post over and over. It still feels scary, but I’m publishing anyway. This is not a cry for ego stroking or a pity party. This is real, and I hope you can be real too. I’m really good at going through my day, my week, my life happy.

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  • Why Your Heart Needs a Good Spring Cleaning

    Embarking on a Spring Cleaning for Your Heart tends to leave people at the ends of two extremes. I don’t need that. My heart is fine. OR My heart is a mess. I don’t know where to start. Either way, I will assure you of two things. We all have work to do, and with God’s help we can

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  • Spring Cleaning for Your Heart

    As we get ready to turn the seasonal calendar page we are filled with new things to do. It’s spring after all and that means it’s time to throw open the windows, get out the deep cleaning tools and the elbow grease. There’s one spot forgotten on our spring cleaning checklists, and it happens to

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