Tag: family
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🌾 The Grace of Ordinary Days: Finding Gratitude in the Weight and Wonder of Life’s Storms
This past year has taught me more about thankfulness than perhaps any other season of my life. Not the easy kind of gratitude — the one that flows naturally when everything’s going right — but the kind that aches in your chest and trembles through your prayers. The kind that whispers, “Thank You, God,” even…
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🔔 I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day — The Sound of a Nation Divided
“I heard the bells on Christmas day, Their old familiar carols play, And wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on earth, good will to men.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow There’s something haunting about those words — written in a time when the world had grown weary of bloodshed. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow penned them amid…
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🔔 I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day — A Thanksgiving Reflection
As the holidays draw near, I feel a stirring deep within my soul — not merely for the glow of Christmas lights or the aroma of pumpkin pie wafting from the oven, but for something far more profound. Gratitude. Reflection. Hope. And perhaps, a quiet call for peace in a world once again at odds…
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The Fall of Leaders and the Faithless
As we journey deeper into these testimonies of Hell, the truth becomes unmistakable — Hell is not reserved solely for those the world calls “wicked.” It is not merely the dwelling place of murderers, tyrants, and atheists. Hell has many chambers, many circles, and countless souls within its grasp. Some of the most tragic among…
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Weapons of the Spirit: Finding Freedom from Darkness
There are battles that reason can’t win. Wars that no amount of willpower can conquer. When the enemy sinks his claws into a life through addiction, trauma, or witchcraft, you can’t talk your way out of it — you have to pray your way through it. You have to fight with spiritual weapons, because flesh…
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Look Out Devil: Freedom Through Christ Alone
When I tell you that spiritual warfare is real, I’m not talking theory or something I read in a book. I’m talking about my childhood nights in the Northeast Georgia mountains, lying on the bottom bunk of my brother’s bed because my own bedroom was worse. I’m talking about watching demons — yes, demons —…
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Country Girls Can Survive
There’s a grit that runs deep in the veins of a country girl. It’s not just about boots on the ground, farm chores, or knowing how to wrangle life when it comes at you hard—it’s about love, loyalty, and devotion. Devotion to God, to family, and to this great nation we’re blessed to live in.…
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Into the Inferno: Testimony and Truth
As I delve once again into The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, it isn’t in honor of Halloween or mere curiosity about medieval poetry. It’s a reflection on profound spiritual truths that continue to echo through time. My studies in English at Maryville University have deepened my appreciation for ancient and medieval literature, especially works like…
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What Is Good?
With everything happening around us lately, I’ve come to a sobering realization: the Bible is true, and its prophecies are unfolding before our eyes. Written nearly 2,000 years ago, these words feel like they were written for today: “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers…
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A Message in Light of 9/11 and Yesterday’s Events
Hello friends, I don’t usually post on Thursdays, but with last week’s holiday, and in light of yesterday’s tragic event as well as today being the anniversary of 9/11, I feel a strong urgency to speak. A Turning Point for Our Nation Yesterday, every Amendment in our Bill of Rights was violated in a single…
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