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Reflect: Settle

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Mrs Gray / 2 Comments

Since I started sharing goals, aspirations, words for the year, I have also pretty much always come back with a recap at the end of each year. This year, my wor...

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Just a Season

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Mrs Gray / 0 Comment

In so many ways, I feel so behind in this space. I feel like I am not giving it the attention I always have. In the past five years (FIVE YEARS next month), I h...

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Who Says I Can’t Be Free?

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Mrs Gray / 1 Comment

I’ve been in a funk lately. I can’t quite pinpoint what’s causing it, but I’m right in the big middle of it. Sunday it was presumably wo...

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Tuesday Ten: Sometimes Edition

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Mrs Gray / 0 Comment

1. Sometimes I am just so amazed by God. He is so into the details that I can’t even comprehend it all. 2. Sometimes I write a little bit of ridiculousnes...

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Faith Like a Child

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Mrs Gray / 0 Comment

Last week, the boy and I spent part of our Monday hanging out with Baby Ava. About ten minutes in, he looked up at me and said, “I want a baby to come to ...

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Laying Hands

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Mrs Gray / 2 Comments

After we went on the grand snowmobile adventure, we headed to a lodge back in town. It was time for a sleigh ride. When I booked it, I originally thought we wou...

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Sunday

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Mrs Gray / 2 Comments

Sundays.  First Sundays were hard because they were long, satan fought from the moment my feet hit the floor, I was on my feet more than any other day, and...

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Settle.

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Mrs Gray / 2 Comments

When I first shared my word for 2015 with Mr. Gray, it gave him pause. I don’t blame him. It’s a strange word to choose to strive for: settle. It...

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Another graduation celebration in the books for th Another graduation celebration in the books for the weekend. 🧑🏼‍🎓

I will never be sad about the fact that I was close by for so many years when this “baby” was a baby. I was down south during my undergrad when he was born. I left chemistry to go to the hospital and have been smitten ever since. 

Time and distance have stood in the way of so many things, but never my love and desire to be there.
Do you ever just know you’re doing exactly what Do you ever just know you’re doing exactly what you’re supposed to be doing?

This picture is the embodiment of that for me. {Most of} my kids. My favorite person to do this ministry and work with. Big smiles on their faces from an inside joke that was captured perfectly. 

Of all the things I took from tonight, the big one for me is how much I love and appreciate my people.
They say it’s your birthday… Purse candles f They say it’s your birthday… 

Purse candles fail me for the second time in 2022. Getting back on the horse for full celebrations by tomorrow. I have to.
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