Category Archives: heart

Mother

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Chrystal

There are many kinds of mothers. Here’s to the ones who smilingly dandle nieces and nephews while their trash cans hide the heartbreak of yet another negative pregnancy test. Heres’s to the ones who carried and released a child they … Continue reading →

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Writing it Out

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Chrystal

Sometimes I wonder what will be left when the Carpenter is finished. Sometimes it feels like my part in the display is to be the sawdust scattered across the floor. There’s such tension between being called and being humble. It … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Glasses

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Chrystal

Jesus saw everything spiritually.  He took everything to His Father in prayer.  He was uncompromising and unapologetic about His standards, and He expected those who followed Him to be as He was. There is an abomination raging through the church … Continue reading →

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30 Days – Day 7: Deut. 23

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Chrystal

An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD forever, because they did not meet you with bread and water on … Continue reading →

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30 Days – Day 6: Matthew 19

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Chrystal

Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good?[f] No one is good but One, that … Continue reading →

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