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Align Our Hearts With Yours

by Kirstin Ricketts | May 10, 2022 | All The Things, The Blog

I believe we are to stand for the widows and orphans. Webster’s dictionary defines an orphan as “one deprived of some protection or advantage.” I believe we have to stand for the babies that need protection. What does this mean for fertility? I don’t know, but I do...

What To Do When God Gives You The Opposite of What You Ask For

by Kirstin Ricketts | May 5, 2022 | Faith Matters, The Blog

God can be trusted, I know He can…yet sometimes I can’t believe what seems to be happening around me. So what can we do when it just doesn’t make sense or when we are just plain disappointed? Maybe even when we wonder if God got this one wrong. Tell Him the...

He’s Still There

by Melissa Cheatham | Apr 29, 2022 | Faith Matters, The Blog

My new favorite morning spot is a swivel chair in my living room. I grab my coffee, turn the chair towards the windows and watch the sunrise over our grassy field. It’s quiet, and every morning has something new to see, but the sunrise is constant. Today, as I watched...

What Is God Resurrecting In You?

by Kirstin Ricketts | Apr 26, 2022 | Faith Matters, The Blog

You may have heard it said, “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” Okay. But how? What does that even mean? What it means is that areas of your life that seem rotten, God can bring new life to. Areas that seem...

What Must You Let Die- So You Can Live?

by Kirstin Ricketts | Apr 14, 2022 | Faith Matters, The Blog

Are Good Friday and Easter hard to connect with? I wonder if this might help. As I watch this next season of life unfold, what I am noticing with my kids is how we let parts of ourselves die so they might live. We let our expectations of them, we let molding them...

What Would You Do If You Were Not Afraid?

by Kirstin Ricketts | Mar 18, 2022 | Home Sweet Home, The Blog

I was reading a book to my kids and it was full of sketches, some colored and some not. Teddy my kindergartner stopped me and said, “Mom can I color the pictures?” “Of course Teddy.” “But mom what if I color outside the lines?” What I heard in his voice was fear. His...