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The One Who Holds the Keys
Dear Woman of Breakthrough, Today I am sitting down to write my last post for this blog. I have spent three and half years fulfilling the...


Can You Tell the Flowers From the Weeds?
Last week, while outside playing, my children scooped up a bunch of flowers from the back yard and brought them in to me. I love flowers,...


Oh What a Difference the View Makes!
Often, when facing difficulties in life, we feel like the woman in the picture above. Troubles and trials seem insurmountable and...


What Will Be Said of You?
{Photo images courtesy of http://www.pixabay.com } One day, when our time on this Earth is done, someone will reach back into our...


Yes…And
It’s a known human weakness that we tend to see more of what we want to than the things we don’t. Denial of that which threatens our...


Maintaining Release From the Power of the Past
In last week’s post, I wrote about the importance and power – the necessity – of forgiveness (if you didn’t get a chance to read it, you...


Releasing the Power of the Past
As we step into a new year, hoping for new promise and potential, I want to write about a subject that tends to keep us imprisoned in the...


Mining Gold From a Dark Season
2020 has been named many things by many people. It has been an astonishing year, indeed. Someday we will look back upon it and remember...


Joy to the World!
“But the angel reassured them. ‘Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people.'” Luke 2:19...


Showing Up
“Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the LORD and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the...


Unwrapping Christmas
Like most of you, every year at Christmas I drag my decorations out of storage and attempt to create an atmosphere akin to a winter...


The Pearl Holder’s Perspective
I had an incredibly revelatory moment this weekend while sitting at my cousin’s table. She was telling me the story about her pearl ring,...


The Collision of Grief and Hope
Thanksgiving is upon us, and for many, there is an internal fight to summon a celebrating heart. I can relate. There is a familiar weight...


Peek at a Prayerless Heart
Many are familiar with the Scriptural parable of the Prodigal Son (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2015%3A11-32&version...


Hope is a Silver Lining I Can’t Erase
My earliest memory stretches back to two years old. While it’s not common for most people to remember things that happen at such an early...


Fire Does Not Mean Failure
There are times and seasons in life that feel like the fiery furnace of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego’s day (see Daniel chapter 3)....

What Love Looks Like
Famed minister David Wilkerson, who gave his all in devotion to Christ, once said: “Love is not only something you feel, it is something...
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