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Crave {Five Minute Friday}

December 2, 2016 By mollieh02 16 Comments

I crave the beautiful parts of life.  Sunlight and laughter, friendship, flowers, and love.  Deep soul friendships where you can laugh together and cry together with equal devotion.  Love that withstands the test of time and weathers any storm.  The things that make the painful parts of life pale in comparison.  I’ve been walking in those painful parts of life for the last six months.  The part where the love I thought was forever failed me fantastically.  Where pain and tears were an everyday occurrence.  Where I tried desperately to see the sunshine through the rain.  So yes, I crave the beautiful parts of life where life isn’t so hard.  Where trust isn’t broken and dreams live to go on for another day.

In the spirit of that I am not going to dwell on what this weekend isn’t, the anniversary of the weekend I got engaged last year.  I’m going to celebrate what it is, the weekend my family grew by one more last year.  We got this little fur ball a year ago tomorrow!

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He’s a little bit bigger now!  This picture doesn’t really show how big he is.  He can put his head on my kitchen table without trying!

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So, this weekend I’m going to celebrate the anniversary of Norris joining our family and celebrate my youngest son’s birthday and try to forget the rest.  Wishing you all a beautiful weekend full of light and love and laughter!

 

Godspeed,

Mollie <3

 

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Surrender {Five Minute Friday}

November 26, 2016 By mollieh02 6 Comments

In one fell swoop everything was different.  An instant.  That’s how long it takes for everything to change when a part of me I have been holding onto surrenders to God.  Today I stopped kicking and screaming as He tried to drag me away from something that wasn’t good for me.  Something that I wanted with every fiber of my being.  In a moment of clarity, ah there it was, SURRENDER.  Do you know what comes after surrender?  In that moment when darkness becomes light there is peace, lightness, calm.  There is a swelling of Spirit that leaves you so happy you could cry from the relief it brings as the stress you were under just melts away.  It is that moment of surrender that there is less of me and more of Him.

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I know that after the surrender inevitably there will come an attack from the enemy, but I’m not worried.  If God is for me, who can be against me? (Romans 8:31)

I am going to enjoy this sweet moment of surrender while it lasts.  Then I am going to keep searching out those areas that I have been keeping hidden away and trying my best to surrender them to God.  I don’t know if it is possible to ever surrender them all.  After all there was only One who was perfect.  But that isn’t going to stop me from trying!

 

Godspeed,

Mollie <3

 

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Enjoy {Five Minute Friday}

November 19, 2016 By mollieh02 4 Comments

I have always seen singleness as a burden of sorts.  I have often found it hard to be content during single seasons.  But it’s during these times when I feel like I’m waiting for something more to happen in my life that God imparts wisdom to me and cements in me the lessons He wants me to carry into the next seasons of my life.  It’s during one of these seasons that He told me I am a writer.  That He introduced me to the people who would become my biggest supporters, not just in writing, but as I walk through life in general.  And during this particular season of singleness He has been teaching me to focus in more on Him.  It is during this season, which I am really hoping is my last single season, that He is teaching me to walk by His side more completely.

So, even during these seasons that I sometimes feel are burdens I am trying to enjoy the time I have.  Last night I went on a one-on-one date with my oldest son to our town’s bed race.  Yes, you read that right and yes it is exactly what it sounds like.  In the grand tradition of small towns mine has it’s own character.  Only in my town do we celebrate the coming holiday season by racing beds on wheels through the middle of town!  It’s really kind of funny to watch!  Then it was home for pizza and hot chocolate with both my babies!

Let God fill you with all the tools you will need for the coming seasons of life and enjoy the time you have during the season you are walking through right now!
Godspeed,

Mollie <3

 

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Common {Five Minute Friday}

November 10, 2016 By mollieh02 12 Comments

I have often wished there was a cure for the common life while growing up.  It wasn’t until I grew up and met Jesus that I learned that there is exactly one cure for the common life.  You have to bury yourself so far inside the heart of God that the common world can’t find you there because they have no access to it.

The life I live is not common.  It is extraordinary!  Think about it.  I get to walk through my days talking to the God who created the entire world whenever I want.  I get to lift my eyes to the Heavens and draw on His wisdom.  I get to open this book that is full of love letters He wrote just for me and learn more about His heart every day.  I get to walk out a purpose in my life that was ordained by God Almighty Himself.  I don’t have all the answers, but I know enough to get through this one day and still be walking towards Him instead of away from Him when the day is done.  That is the key to the uncommon life.  Walking towards God, always.

There is one simple step to start this extraordinary life.  Accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior.  Confess your sins and invite Jesus to live in your heart.  Then give up the wheel and let Him steer for awhile.  The road may be bumpy at times, but it will always be worth it when you are riding with Jesus.

 

 

Godspeed,

Mollie <3

 

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Journey {Five Minute Friday}

November 8, 2016 By mollieh02 Leave a Comment

There is joy in the journey.  Life is made up of many little journeys.  You can find joy in each and every one of them.  Sometimes the joy is evident and comes in like a flood.  Other times, other journeys are made up of pain and misery.  Even still sometimes an unexplainable joy creeps in.  Unspeakable joy I call it.  It’s in those moments that God whispers to a weary heart.  It’s in those moments that He banishes the weight of the world for just a little while.  There is joy in the journey.  Sometimes it is easy to find.  Other times it is only in looking back that you can clearly see it.  Sometimes you have to reach the end of a journey before you can take a look back and see the

Joy can take on many different forms.  A moment that creates deep belly laughter.  Discovering just a little more of God’s purpose for your life, or behind a situation you didn’t understand.  There is even joy in lessons learned.  So, when you face trials of many kinds count it all joy (James 1:2) my friend.  There is joy in EVERY JOURNEY.

 

Godspeed,

Mollie <3

 

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Listen {Five Minute Friday}

September 15, 2016 By mollieh02 12 Comments

For about the last 3 1/2 months I have been on an emotional roller  coaster. There are highs where I feel a little bit stronger and there are lows where I could fill an ocean with all the tears I’ve cried.  And every emotion there is in between.  I feel fractured.  Like there is literally a part of my heart missing.  Who knows that you shouldn’t let your emotions rule you?  I will be the first to admit that I am awful at that particular discipline.  I am an open book when it comes to my emotions.  I wear them on my sleeve and you can read them all over my face.  But, when I feel the need to change my current emotional state or even when I just want to feed into what I’m feeling at the moment I listen to music.  I love music.  Below is my current playlist.

What I listen too when…

I am missing him.

“Just A Fool” –Christina Aguilera & Blake Shelton

“Can’t Shake You”  –Gloriana

I need to feel stronger.

“A Little Bit Stronger” –Sara Evans

“Tell Your Heart To Beat Again”  –Danny Gokey

I want assurance that God is in control.

“Trust In You”  –Lauren Daigle

“This I Believe”  –Hillsong Worship

I need to know who God says I am so that I can drown out what everyone else says I am.

“Good Good Father”  –Chris Tomlin

 

I sit back and I listen and I let the melodies set me free.  What songs do you listen to when you need to feel something?

 

Godspeed,

Mollie  <3

 

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Heal {Five Minute Friday}

September 12, 2016 By mollieh02 2 Comments

When the body is broken and in need of healing we don’t question that.  We don’t say it’s taking too long to heal.  We can see physical signs of brokenness.  We can read the medical reports.  But when it’s the heart, the emotions, that are broken and in need of healing that’s a different story.  Emotional pain, unlike physical pain, is mostly invisible to the naked eye.  You have to really be looking for the signs of an unrest heart.  The thing about pain you can’t see is that sometimes you don’t know they’re suffering.  Let me assure you that the pain of a broken heart is worse than any physical pain that I’ve ever felt.  It lingers.  It takes hold and doesn’t easily let go.  Even when there are physical signs, tears, not being able to eat or sleep, eating or sleeping too much, people still question the validity of emotional pain.  Tell you that you’re being dramatic.  Tell you to just get over it already.  Just because my pain isn’t visible to you doesn’t mean it isn’t real.  And everyone heals at different rates.

But when the heart heals it feels like a weight has been lifted.  That you can see the signs of.  I can’t wait for that day when the weight of heartache lifts and my world feels a little lighter!

If you’re hurting today I urge to find rest in the arms of God.  He is the only one who can heal a broken heart, but you have to give it to Him first.  If you need prayer for this, or anything, leave me a comment below.  I would be honored to be pray for you.

 

Godspeed,

Mollie  <3

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Path {Five Minute Friday}

September 1, 2016 By mollieh02 12 Comments

Over the years I have learned one sure fire way to know that I am on the path God has set me on.  It’s hard.  It usually gives new meaning to the phrase “no pain no gain”.  Nothing makes the devil madder than when we are coming into the things God has for us.  You’ve heard the phrase “anything worth having is worth fighting for”?  You will definitely fight a battle of the spiritual variety when you are walking the path with God.

 

This week I started a book study on biblical parenting.  I know that I am absolutely supposed to be doing this study.  This week has been full of nightmares and my emotions have been all over the place.  Those tiny humans I am supposed to be learning to parent more gently?  It’s been more like a scene from World War 3 around here this week.  The only way to make it through these right path war times is to lean hard into God.  So on the menu for this weekend while my kids are away is lots of prayer and reading my Bible.  I need time to just be still and wait for Him to direct me and give me the rest my weary soul needs this week.

If you’re going through a time when it seems that you walking the path of most resistance.  Be comforted that you are most likely exactly where God wants you to be.

 

Godspeed,

Mollie  <3

 

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Loyal {Five Minute Friday}

August 25, 2016 By mollieh02 23 Comments

I’ve never been one to toot my own horn, so to say.  Actually if you were to ask me what my best qualities are you would likely get a blank stare as I frantically tried to think up just one.  I am absolutely my own worst critic.  Plus, I tend to internalize anything critical that is said to me.

I’d say about six months ago God started talking to me about who I am.  Not who my Mom says I am, or who my sister says I am, or even who the friend who knows me best says I am, but who He says I am.   He is teaching me to think differently.  Starting with the way I think of myself.  One of the things that has come to light in recent weeks is that I’m loyal.

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To a fault.  I will stick with you through thick and thin.  I am a tried and true friend.  Long after loyalty has stopped being deserved, still my loyalty continues.  I haven’t always been this way.  I’ve let people fall through the cracks and walked away from others.  But, it is who I am right now.  I’ve thought a lot about this new found quality of mine these last couple weeks.  The thing about being loyal is that we take it for granted that loyalty repays loyalty, but that truly is not always the case.  And I know I said something about people not deserving my loyalty earlier, but really what makes someone deserving of loyalty? I say be loyal any way.  Let me tell you something.  I can’t think of a single one of us who deserves God’s loyalty.  I can think of five things I did today that makes me undeserving of His loyalty.  Man, am I glad that I share this quality with Him.  Because God is loyal to His children, and He will never leave us.

If you are one of these loyal to a fault people too and you come across someone who doesn’t deserve your loyalty, just look up and be reminded that you don’t deserve loyalty either.  Then go help that friend anyway.

 

Godspeed,

Mollie  <3

 

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Lift {Five Minute Friday}

August 11, 2016 By mollieh02 7 Comments

Sometimes people baffle me.  I don’t understand why our first instinct isn’t to help.  There are so many hurting people in the world around us.  People who just need someone to come along and care enough to lend a hand.  To lift them up out of where circumstance has taken them.  I feel like it should be second nature.  When someone is hungry you feed them.  When someone is thirsty you give them something to drink.  When someone is homeless you give them shelter.  When someone is hurting you do whatever it takes to lift them up out of their pain.  And when there is nothing you can physically do to help them we should be lifting them up in prayer.  Not as a last resort but as a first line of attack.

This week I challenge you to take a good look at the people around you.  When you see someone who is in pain.  Who is hurting in some sort of way.  Think first, “How can I help.”  If you don’t know what to do or say to help, let me give you some words of wisdom a dear friend gave me.  Sometimes words aren’t needed.  Sometimes all someone needs is for you to listen.  We can all do at least that.

 

Godspeed,

Mollie  <3

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