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The Beauty of Rest in Our Motherhood
It shouldn’t be like this, you know? This continuous feeling of being steamrolled by our own motherhood. Sheer exhaustion. Day in. And...
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easpenner
- Nov 20, 2021
- 2 min
Broken Hallelujah
I can't ever get through this song without tears. Without goosebumps. Without imagining every word. Without wanting to fall straight to...
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easpenner
- Nov 17, 2021
- 2 min
God's Sweet, Amazing Grace
Five cups of hot chocolate and a Netflix Christmas movie. That's how Friday night ended. That's not how, however, how Friday night...
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easpenner
- Nov 15, 2021
- 3 min
Sometimes, God lets you break...
Sometimes, God has to let us break to piece us back together again. Sometimes, God has to allow our layers to peel back, exposing our...
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easpenner
- Oct 11, 2021
- 3 min
Motherhood is Too Beautiful Even for Satan
I want to let you in on a little secret, sweet mamas. Satan will never stop trying. He will never, ever stop trying to destroy your...
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easpenner
- Oct 8, 2021
- 1 min
A Mother and Her Son: God's Greatest Love Story
I never understood... I never understood why she called him so much. I never understood why she still wanted to visit him so often, even...
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easpenner
- Aug 20, 2021
- 2 min
Our children needs us now, more than ever before...
If ever there was a picture to encapsulate the emotions of our children this past year...this is it. I took this photo a few days before...
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easpenner
- Aug 5, 2021
- 2 min
They'll always remember a mama who digs into life with them...
"I think they'd really like it if you got into the lake with them today," my husband whispered. I knew he was right. But, I had become a...
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easpenner
- Aug 3, 2021
- 1 min
Sometimes, being a mama means taking a lifeboat ride on the ever-giving waves of God's grace...
Sometimes, being a mama means not wanting to do one more thing. It means passing up a sink full of dishes, over and over, and over...
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easpenner
- Aug 1, 2021
- 3 min
Our girls need us now more than ever...
Our girls need us. Our girls need us now more than ever before. Satan has found ways to reach our girls in ways we could never imagine....
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easpenner
- Jul 26, 2021
- 2 min
I went to church on the water...
I went to church on the water last week. Not in a church pew. Not singing hymns. Or with a Bible in my lap. Rather, I found God under the...
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easpenner
- Jul 8, 2021
- 2 min
What if this is the year God set the world afire in His name?
God knew about this past year, you know? He already knew. He knew it was coming. What if this is the year He has been waiting for, as the...
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easpenner
- Jul 4, 2021
- 2 min
The Bittersweet Beauty of Surrender
If you’ve ever had a relapse with your anxiety, you just know. You know the wave of exhaustion. You know the unshakable fear. You know...
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easpenner
- Jul 1, 2021
- 2 min
You don't need a spotlight to hold God's attention...
Some of us will never make it big. Some of us will never have anything go viral. Some of us may never be truly known by more than a few....
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easpenner
- Jun 29, 2021
- 3 min
The Golden Moments
There are these moments. You know the ones. The ones that bring us to our knees. Shake us to our absolute core. Causing us to come...
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easpenner
- Jun 26, 2021
- 2 min
Motherhood is Humbling Yourself in God's Name
Within 28 hours of this photo being taken... I watched my baby have an asthma attack. I walked into the ER just before 2:00 AM. I caught...
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easpenner
- Jun 20, 2021
- 1 min
A Mother's Love will Forever Stop Me in My Tracks...
It stops me in my tracks every single time... The little scrunched up knees. The little busy toes, finally resting The mesmerizing,...
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easpenner
- Jun 17, 2021
- 1 min
There's just something about a grandma's hug...
There's just something about a grandma's hug. Something that makes you want to unbuckle your seat belt and run back into her house, for...
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easpenner
- Jun 6, 2021
- 1 min
A Prayer for My Daughter
Dear Daughter, I pray the world never gets so loud that you can no longer find God's voice. My prayer is never that you win every race;...
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easpenner
- May 25, 2021
- 2 min
Your Worth, In Him
“You won’t find it in there,” He sternly nudged. “You never will. What you are looking for cannot be found in your phone. In social...
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