Dear {City I Live In} Housing Market, You suck. Love,Emily Dear Midwest America, There is something I should tell you.  Two years ago – heck, a few months ago – I would have said, “No I will NOT live in you!  I am a SUH-THURN girl.  The South will rise again [totally just kidding about

I was feeling overwhelmed.  Like I was running in circles and accomplishing nothing.  Then I read my sister’s lastest post and I am compelled.  To take my sweet little girl swimming.  Because the cleaning can wait.

You do not have to be the best at everything you do.  You only have to do the best you can do with what God gives you to do.  There are better writers, mothers, wives, and followers of Jesus than you.  That is true.  But if the goal is not to be the best or even be among the best,

I am grieved and overwhelmed by the enormity of what needs to be done – within my own heart and in this world.  I feel as though I am fighting a gigantic war against my selfishness and their poverty, against my complacency and their brokenness.  It is, without a doubt, a war I cannot win. 

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…and have yourself a Dee-dah Day! That’s the exact word I got from the Lord this morning.  As previously stated, it’s been an intense few weeks of wrestling with what God expects from me as His follower.  Intense and a bit exhausting.  And this morning during my time with the Him, I was reading through

We live in a condo currently.  We share a yard with the rest of the complex.  And with the expressway it backs up to.  There is an extreme shortage of natural light and convenient storage.  The furniture is not ours.  The carpet is old.  The walls are vanilla.  But we don’t pay rent.  Not one

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I’ve been wrestling.  Wrestling with what exactly I think it is to be a follower of Jesus.  And in doing so I’m discovering a part of God I’ve long left buried.  The part of Him that is holy and perfect and must pass judgement on sin and complacency and unwillingness to follow.  The part that