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A Mother’s Day Letter to Fill Your Heart with Love and Gratitude
Dear Moms, The days feel as though they are getting shorter while the to do list is getting longer. The tiny hands that reached up for you to pick them up just keep getting bigger, and you’re starting to wonder how many more times they’ll reach out to hold your hand. Your babes are getting taller and stronger every day. At the same time that you find yourself needing to buy clothes for their growing bodies, you find yourself aching to see them little in the rompers they wore when they were younger, even if it was only a few short months ago. Their personalities develop more every…
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Special Gifts for Mother’s Day to Show Her Love
Hello Friends, I am so excited to share with you some special gifts for Mother’s Day to show her love! It is just so special to celebrate your mom and to be celebrated as a mother yourself. Motherhood is both an amazing gift to cherish forever, and an exceptional challenge that we get to meet every day. I read recently that we will know our children for most of their lives as adults, so we should try to cherish every moment while they’re little. When we’re engrossed in the throws of mothering young children with diaper changes or potty training, feedings, cleaning, and play and all of the…
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Your Relationship With God Can Make You Beautiful
Dear Friends, Today I want to share with you how your relationship with God can make you beautiful. First I should define beauty. Is it only skin deep? No of course not, but I do believe that who you are on the inside is reflected in your outward appearance. It is for this reason that your relationship with God can make you beautiful inside and out. I was listening to a podcast recently by Julia James Davis from The War On Beauty, I just love the way she describes beauty, and I agree with her definition of beauty completely. Julia defines “beauty as being objective not…
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Reading Your Bible is the Best Way to Have a Great Day
Dear Friends, Today I want to talk about how reading your Bible is the best way to have a great day! We are into the soul section of the healthy habits series and there is really nothing better for the soul, in my opinion, than reading your Bible. We all have faith in something, because I am a Christian I have faith in God. Nurturing your faith is truly soul food. I believe the absolute best way to nurture your Christian faith is specifically to read your Bible. I say your Bible specifically; because that seems to be the best way for you to have a…
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How to Keep Your Romantic Relationship Amazing Forever!
Dear Friends, It is the beginning of February and that has us all thinking about love and relationships because we are so close to Valentines Day, so I am going to share with you how to keep your romantic relationship amazing forever! Let’s start by talking about the fact that most of us think love is that amazing feeling of butterflies in your stomach, excitement just when you hear your love interest’s name, that warm feeling you get when you see them, and the joy that washes over you when you hear from them. These are all wonderful feelings but are they love or feelings of lust? I…
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How to Actively Listen to Enjoy Time with Others
Active listening to enjoy the holidays to the fullest with family and friends with views different than your own. Dear Friends, We live in such a unique time in history. Everyone is more polarized than they have been in any point in my life, and I’m sure yours as well, and we are being expected to choose a side for any opinion we may have. It is as if there is no room for neutrality anymore. This is just so taxing on our relationships with family and friends and it can feel so devastating and isolating. We do not need to lose friends or disconnect from…
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On the sixth day God created the first family
The Sixth Day Family Hello, My name is Amanda. I am writing this blog because I have a passion for helping families and friends build meaningful relationships that will last a lifetime. I am a Christian, a wife, a mother, and a friend. I believe that God did not just make Adam and Eve on the sixth day of creation, rather He made the first family. God did not make us as humans to be alone, He made us be be in community and fellowship with one another. This is shown in multiple places throughout the Bible beginning on the sixth day of creation when…
