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Planted by Streams of Water
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers. Psalm 1:3 I am visual and because of what I imagine...
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Pushing back the ocean
Today marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v Wade. I saw two very different articles today about this topic, one where President Obama affirmed the right to choice in a speech, and this horrific article...
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Modern Day Amos
I am taking a class this semester, History and Literature of the Bible, from a secular university. For my class, I had to study the Book of Amos and report on how I thought the world today would...
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Depraved Indifference
It is so easy in the world we live in to see up as down and down as up. I think we as the church need stuff like this – reminders along the way of the TRUTH. Please take 7 minutes and watch.
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Team Sims Rocking the World
The Lord is doing a GREAT work in the Sims family (my side of the family), and I am so grateful – so I thought I’d share for those of us who love us and pray for us. First – My brother, Joe, and...
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Streamlining
I have read that when the body has endured trauma, it automatically shuts down organ systems that are unnecessary to survival to conserve energy for the ones that are. Because of the way the Creator...
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Bloodlines & Adoption
This video speaks to my heart and I adore it. In it, John Piper tells the story of his life growing up in the south and his adoption of his daughter, Talitha. Please watch it – it will touch your...
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Kisses from Katie
Oh my friends – I just finished a book that absolutely shook me up (in the best way possible). Kisses from Katie - the story of a girl who followed the Lord to Uganda at 19 years-old. I had heard about...
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Blessed is the one who is not offended by Me
So I have a new person I want to be when I grow up – Dr. Karyn Purvis. She’s a precious, lovely, brilliant child-development guru who wrote The Connected Child and spoke at the Empowered to Connect...
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The Prayers of Many
I have a friend who is in the middle of a very difficult adoption trial. I want to protect her privacy, so I’ll call her M. She is a kind, wise, godly person who loves children, a school teacher, who...
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Haiti Day 1
This week I travel to Haiti with a team from Community of Faith to shoot a short documentary-style video of the work COF is doing in Haiti. My friends and I have often joked that a Sims family trait...
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Haiti Day 2
Haiti Day 2 I am in Haiti this week with Community of Faith, seeing what God is doing down here through the two churches we are associated with and our school, the Community of Faith School in Le...
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Grace Grace Grace
I have realized something about myself lately, a thread that the Lord is connecting. I love getting to talk to women during the fun or scary transitions of life; it always feels like a weighty...
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The Reconcilers
Part of why I blog is to remember little lessons the Lord teaches me, so I can go back and see them later. This will be a short one, because it was inspired by the most mundane of daily tasks and I...
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Teach Me to Number My Days
In Psalm 90, in the middle of a chapter about the passage of time, the inconsequence of our lives, and the judgment of God there is a plea; “So teach us to number our days, that we may get a heart of...
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Plenty
So to briefly catch you up… we don’t exactly have a home right now. Last Monday, after three days of an exhausting but effective “shelter in place” hurricane strategy during Harvey, we woke up to...
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