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A First For Me

Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving. Colossians 4:2 As a first time mom, there wasn’t anywhere I went without words of been-there-done-that-wisdom showered on me. Grocery stores, the cleaners, sidelines at my kid’s sports events, all became classrooms for colic, ear infections, and potty training lessons. I … [Read more...]

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One Exciting Day! Book Release Time!

Today is a day that will go down in Kraft family infamy. It's official. My book has been released, launched, shot out to the masses. Yeah, I think BIG. I woke up this morning and thoughts of blog-tours, book launch parties, and a cross-country book-tour/MOPS conference danced in my head. I had to email my publisher about a couple things, and … [Read more...]

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Perspective-People

Cheryl lost her husband this year after a tragic car accident. After almost thirty years of marriage, she now sits without him in church on Sundays. It physically pains me to see her sitting with her teenage son and without her other half. Elaine was diagnosed with breast cancer this summer. A brilliant author-speaker and mother of four, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: eternal life, perspective, time, value of time Tagged With: devotion, faith, redeemed

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Spiritually Dry

Spiritually dry. It’s an awful place to be. Hell for those who have been satisfied by cool, refreshing living waters. For the past few weeks, I’ve experienced a spiritually dry time. Today, while in the Word, His presence was near. It had been quite awhile since I’d experienced Him, it almost felt like a reunion. I’d never wept in my devotion time … [Read more...]

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From Mountaintop to Valley Floor

Life has been good lately, really good. I've been soaring on a mountaintop plateau that I was praying would last much longer. Yesterday, I took a nosedive off of the highest cliff.It began early Sunday morning as a handful of officers walked into the chief's office to receive the dreaded news...they'd lost their jobs. A few hours before, one … [Read more...]

Filed Under: cancer grief, job loss, mountaintop to valley floor, valley dwelling Tagged With: faith, redeemed

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