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When God Moved Us

December 12, 2013

As I write this we are traveling to our next destination during this lifetime. About six weeks ago we were told to move to Franklin, TN as fast as we could for my husbands work. My love and I decided to give it a go. Any other time when we’ve been asked to move in the past six years was followed by laughter. We were planted in a run down, deserted neighborhood. There was no possible way our house was going to sell. We got in to a new build neighborhood right before the economy crashed. The name was Edemoor. What was supposed to have been 2200 homes turned into around 50. There were dangerously deep sinkholes along the roads. A 20 foot “grand canyon” in the empty lot across from us. Drug dealers and promiscuous teenagers. Random gun shots from drunk country boys sneaking into our backwoods. Moving was just not a possibility.

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Grace for Moms

November 4, 2013

Another Allume story for you that overflows with grace. This was the same night that Ann Voskamp encouraged me.

Little did I know I would be experiencing true Grace for Moms.

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My sweet baby was fatigued and there was no end in sight to his neediness. It was dinner time and I had a sweet friend, Kristy Chowning, invite me to sit at her table. This was a huge offer to me because I really didn’t know anybody. The room was full of women and I was feeling like a tag along. After all, I was only at the conference because my husband was there representing Food for the Hungry. I couldn’t eat dinner with him because he was speaking that night. Taking a fussy baby and sitting in the front would not have been a thoughtful act on my part.

So after thanking her profusely I sat and enjoyed a salad. I was seated between Kristy and her friend Jessica Wolstenholm, the co-owners and authors of Grace for Moms. At one point my little one was getting far too fussy and I was about to leave when Kristy grabbed him and exited so I could finish eating. I was so thankful! I tried to finish quickly yet also tried to get to know Jessica. I went to relieve Kristy but when I left the large room she didn’t have Josiah!

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The Road Less Traveled

November 3, 2013

Yesterday we wanted to take our family on a trip to the mountains to go apple picking. We’ve done this many times before. This time we stopped at Mast General first. Who doesn’t love Mast General, right? Hendersonville is a photographers dream {just don’t go on a Saturday}.

When leaving to continue our trip to the apple orchard we set up the directions on our phone and off we went. We took out first turn and saw that our directions were taking us a way we had never been before. Me, being a photographer, and my husband, being the awesome man that he is, decided to continue on this new way. Why? Because it looked gorgeous! The trees were weeping color on the dirt roads. He pulled over and I popped out and got down to snap some photos. I ran up roads. Got down low. Tip-toed up high. Stood atop smooth rocks.

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The Touch of Christ

November 1, 2013

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We were standing in the hallway at the Allume conference. There was a buffet lunch and the line, directly in front of us, was almost complete. My littlest one had had just about enough. He was in need of some rest. I secured him into his umbrella stroller and attempted to walk as quickly as I could to the exit. Then I saw her.

Ann Voskamp.

I walked past her. Seeing that she was speaking with somebody. I didn’t want to bother so I kept walking. I had almost gotten to the doors when my feet stopped and turned back toward her. Afterall, this may be the only chance I ever get to say “thank you.”

I waited patiently behind for her conversation to finish. Then more people came to talk with her. My little one was getting restless but I just couldn’t let this moment pass. Like a few months previous when I had waited hours in line just to tell Michelle Duggar “thank you.”

I gently laid my hand on her shoulder and told her a very light version of my story. How I run a blog called Eucharisteo and yet it wasn’t until recently that I fully understood what that meant to me. The embrace of knowing that life is appreciated left me feeling loved. I was thankful the Spirit turned my feet back to her.

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Allume Recovery

October 27, 2013

My sweet friends, I am so anxious to share with you the trying, yet wonderful, time I had at Allume! However, this evening we were in a car accident. So my entire schedule has been readjusted. Everybody is ok! And we are so thankful that Yahweh was taking care of us. It easily could have been much worse. And yes, I’ve repented of my immediate knee jerk reaction. I was chauffeuring my four daughters to Awana at the time. Needless to say, we never did get there. I am so incredibly thankful, again, that Yahweh had His hand over us.

You see, my oldest daughter turns 11 tomorrow. We were planning on taking everybody to the mountains to go apple picking. But If He is protecting us from going there then we will praise Him. Maybe He is guiding us toward somebody to minister to tomorrow instead. No matter what it may be, He allowed this into our lives and we will praise Him.

We will be celebrating life tomorrow! I still can’t believe in the past 11 years I’ve been blessed to be a mother six times over. Who am I that He should bless me this much??

Blessings!

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