Tag: growth
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‘Enjoy Yourself’
This year, the Lord told me to make sure to schedule some time off to enjoy my life, my family, and my friends. It started off small; I planned a weekend away with my two best friends. From there, it kind of snowballed. My mom and I are planning two trips to see her parents…
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10 Years A Friend
Today marks 10 years since I started at my first job in Kansas City, Missouri. Because I’ve had issues with iCloud and Dropbox over the years, I don’t have any pictures from 2014, but I know I took a lot of them. So this picture of my roommate and me taken by a photographer friend…
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Music Is Memory
It doesn’t happen as often as it used to, but today I had the opportunity to just listen to music and color. In hindsight, not having anything “fun” to do on my phone definitely helped. I don’t remember what precipitated it, but I thought of a song from Hawk Nelson’s first album, Letters To The…
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What Is Surrender?
Last week, the Lord stopped me as I was wandering around aimlessly in my house and asked me a simple question: “What are you so afraid of?” And I knew what He meant, because I’ve been ignoring the Lord on this particular subject for at least 3 months. “What is that subject, Erica?” Funny you…
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Endings Bring New Beginnings
This weekend I am on the last Christmas/New Year’s, help-people-with-their-dogs adventure for at least two weeks. I promise I really did quit dog-sitting as a business. Last year Erica would wonder how much “quitting” was actually had… Speaking of Last Year Erica… I was thinking about a year ago today. I remember how tired and…
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Divine Appointments
Today, I had a fairly relaxing day. I didn’t do a whole lot, and what I did do was more time-consuming than mind-consuming. By the time I had finished, I figured I would grab something to eat on the way home and then I could unwind when I got there. So I stopped at Chick-Fil-A,…
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Light and Dark
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep… And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called…
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