Into Everyday Life - with these communities: Holly Barrett’s #TestimonyTuesday, Kelly Balarie’s #RaRalinkup, Jennifer Dukes Lee’s #TellHisStory, Holley Gerth’s CoffeeFor your Heart, and… More Spring in our Step and in our Hearts | Faith Spilling Over.

What Fear Steals and How to Take it Back - Pleased to link with Modest Monday, Mom2Mom Monday, Titus2sday, Titus2Tuesday, WednesdayPrayerGirls, #TellHisStory.

How Marriage is Like a Three-legged Race | Waxing Gibbous - I’m linking up today with and Jennifer Dukes Lee at #TellHisStory and Kelly Balarie at.

Unremarkable Beauty: God’s Daily Pursuit of You - with Jennifer and Holley and their beautiful communities of.

A year from homeless - at #TellHisStory, Playdates with God,.

Read Jennifer’s beautiful post about Kara here.

the sweet relief of jesus | - Linking up with Jennifer Dukes Lee for #TellHisStory.

And hers read like a prequel - the back-story to…

» #TellHisStory: What Kara Tippetts Taught Us About Living Our Story - In the end, each of us is a story.

And it will carry us-carry us in ways we cannot comprehend.” He has given me so much to be grateful for, and that gratitude, that wondering over His love, will cover us all. I do not feel like I have the courage for this journey, but I have Jesus-and He will provide. I get to laugh and cry and wonder over Heaven. I get to pray into eternity my hopes and fears for the moments of my loves. I get to draw my people close, kiss them and tenderly speak love over their lives.

By degrees doing both, living and dying, as I have moments left to live. He has still given me breath, and with it I pray I would live well and fade well. “But what I see, what I know, what I have is Jesus. “My little body has grown tired of battle, and treatment is no longer helping,” Kara wrote. She lived the kind of story that you sort of don’t want to read, because it’s so hard … but that you want to memorize, because it’s so beautiful. Maybe you’ve read her story by now, the story of Kara Tippetts, who taught us all how to live well and die well. And hers read like a prequel - the back-story to the real story that was already written for her, before time began.

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