Category: Personal
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A Tribute to My Grandma
How can you measure the impact of a life? My sweet Grandma passed away on Saturday. The question above came to my mind as I thought of her passing. Is there a way to measure the influence someone has on your life? Can you count up the times they talk with you and create…
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When Worry Steals Your Joy
Last week, I told you that my husband passed the oral defense of his dissertation—the culmination of a major, 4-year-long journey and a huge answer to prayer. The 24 hours that followed his passing held some major struggles for me. Here’s the story of my breakdown & God’s build-up… “I passed.” I entertained approximately…
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He Passed!
This past week, Jonathan traveled to Kentucky to defend his dissertation. The oral defense took place Thursday afternoon, so my kids and I held an “official” prayer meeting minutes before he began. A couple hours later, he called me with wonderful news: He passed! Yahoo! Yeehaw! And all the other sayings that express happiness and…
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3 Questions I Ask Before Pressing “Publish”
Today marks 7 years of blogging here at Brown Sugar Toast. 7 YEARS! In commemoration of this event, I’m going to share 3 questions I ask before pressing publish. I want you to know what my goals are for the writing in this space, rather than it seeming like a random assortment of posts. Whether I…
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3 Questions For the New Year (+ my goals for 2018)
Towards the end of 2017, I sat down with a long list of questions to answer. I only ended up getting through 3 of them, but those few questions have been so helpful as I’ve thought about the year ahead. In case you enjoy thinking intentionally about the upcoming months, I thought I’d share these…