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Why a Simple Word Of the Year is Better Than a List of Resolutions—Psalm 52

February 16, 2021 by Loree

Snowbound in our hotel, we decide to take a drive in ritzy Highland Park, less in curiosity and more about food for our stomachs. With the sun peeking out, we venture forth, layered up like a pan of [Read more...]

Posted in: God in control, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: 2020 challenges, confidence, Doeg the Edomite, HIghland park, hope, King Saul, Psalm 52, resolutions, snowballs, trust, Unfailing love, word of the year

How to Rise From the Ashes of 2020 And Change Your Life in 2021—Psalm 56,100

February 4, 2021 by Loree

Well it’s over and done.  Finisimo We finished that train-wreck of 2020 and all the carnage that left us feeling vulnerable like never before—sliced as thin as tissue paper. We wade out of [Read more...]

Posted in: comfort, God in control, Life & Work, Peace, Praise and Thanks, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: fear, God is for me, isolation, loneliness, Psalm 100, Psalm 56:8-9, sorrow, thankfulness, transformation, trials

Why Our New Year’s Resolutions May Look Different This Year-Psalm 75:3

January 1, 2021 by Loree

Yard games cease as five-year-old Jett looks up and asks, “Who’s coming to my house?” We wonder the same…Lumbering up our long drive is a truck. A U-Haul truck. What in the world? But as the guy jumps [Read more...]

Posted in: Family & Friendship, God in control, Life & Work, Peace, Praise and Thanks, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: anxiety, bingewatching, COVID woes, global worries, masks, New Years, pandemic, Psalm 75:3, record hurricanes, resolutions, Winston Churchill quote

How to Banish the Grinch and Find Joy on Christmas Day: Psalm 98

December 25, 2020 by Loree

The list lengthened month by month. Which list? Not the Christmas wish list, or the naughty vs nice list, but our 2020 Grinchy list of woe-is-me. It turned us not only green from sickness but a putrid [Read more...]

Posted in: comfort, Family & Friendship, God in control, grace, Peace, Praise and Thanks, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: Isaac watts, joy to the world, Luke 2:8-12, Psalm 98, The Grinch

The Key to Coping When Christmas 2020 is Anything But a Hallmark Movie—Psalm 41:1-3

December 19, 2020 by Loree

Mired in a holiday traffic snarl, I drum on my steering wheel, inching forward slow as a slug on a sidewalk. As I wait and scan the never-noticed-before landscape, I spy a fleeting movement in the [Read more...]

Posted in: comfort, Family & Friendship, God in control, Life & Work, Peace, Praise and Thanks, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: christmas cheer, depression, giving of self, homeless plight, isolation, joy to the world, Psalm 91, unlike a hallmark movie, volunteer

Five Ways to Find Joy When You Feel Like Crying: Psalm 100

November 26, 2020 by Loree

A niece, her husband, my parents, and 3 dogs. That’s it. The whole of the Thanksgiving gathering. So if you count the fur babies, and who wouldn’t, we have 8. Missing my kids, my sister, the [Read more...]

Posted in: comfort, Family & Friendship, God in control, Life & Work, Peace, Praise and Thanks, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: choose joy, Christmas, COVID, covid rules, loss, praise, Psalm 100, thankfulness, Thanks, thanksgiving

Our Book Has Released on Amazon!

November 24, 2020 by Loree

Hi Friend!  We can’t contain our excitement! Today is the day! GRACED: My Mess is Not the Boss of Me is now available on Amazon.  After 3 years of writing and re-writing and writing [Read more...]

Posted in: comfort, Family & Friendship, Forgiveness, God in control, grace, Life & Work, Marriage, Peace, Praise and Thanks, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: God is in control, God's love, grace, Graced, mercy, Messy life

Sneak peek book excerpt–My Dirty Little Secret

November 9, 2020 by Loree

(Our new book will land on Amazon in a couple of weeks so I thought I'd share one of the devotionals:) The drive-thru barista knows my dirty little secret. Tinted windows befriend me because [Read more...]

Posted in: comfort, Family & Friendship, Forgiveness, God in control, grace, Life & Work, Marriage, Peace, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: Beloved, book release, devotionals, devotions, grace, Graced, perfection, Romans 3:24, secrets

What’s in your Boxes? How God offers Us Hope and Peace– Psalm 121

October 11, 2020 by Loree

Looking at the blunt email with disbelief, I read it again and enlarge the attached photos. How could this happen? The picture shows stacks of boxes for a coffee shop in Oklahoma. My invoice [Read more...]

Posted in: comfort, God in control, Life & Work, Peace, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: COVID, hope, King David, King Saul, peace, promise, trials

My Traveling Nightmare: Finding Comfort in a World of Woe—Psalm 91

August 15, 2020 by Loree

Who thought a road trip was a good idea anyway?   After a 10-day visit from the kids, home was calling. I volunteered to ride back to Colorado with them to help curb the chaos of travel with a [Read more...]

Posted in: comfort, Family & Friendship, God in control, Peace, Pursuit of All Things Godly Tagged: airport, Colorado, compassion, hope, love, motion-sickness, promises, Psalm 91, road trip, sick world
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Learn how to rewrite your messy stories one grace at a time. In these 52 devotionals, we share stories of hilarity and hardship to uncover how God transforms our mayhem and invites us to live free.
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