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Enneagram: Sustaining the Growth Arrow

by Kirstin Ricketts | Mar 4, 2019 | All The Things, The Blog

Wow, the Enneagram post last week. It brought out so many different feelings. The Enneagram highlights some of the things we already know about ourselves but may prefer to keep a little under wraps. I hate to say it, but when I read the good and bad parts of my...

Are You Ready for the Talk? Great Easter Resources for You and Your People.

by Melissa Cheatham | Mar 3, 2019 | All The Things, Children, Faith Matters, The Blog

Are you ready for the talk? So all you mommas out there with elementary school-age children immediately went to “the birds and the bees” when I asked that question! Oh, man… I’m not ready to write anything about that yet! But those conversations with kids which have...

Enneagram

by Kirstin Ricketts | Mar 1, 2019 | All The Things, The Blog

The Enneagram is so hot right now. It’s been hot for a while, but if you haven’t felt the heat, join me. There is a blizzard outside, and it’s been snowing since Christmas around here…even the sound of the word “hot” seems wildly attractive. My love for...

My Protector

by Kirstin Ricketts | Feb 27, 2019 | Faith Matters, The Blog

My grandparents lived on Marco Island, off the coast of Florida. When I was in high school, my grandfather would give me his boat and my friends and I would drive it around the entire island. We would boat through the protected mud flats and across the expanse of the...

How Are Your Roots?

by Melissa Cheatham | Feb 25, 2019 | The Blog, This Is Life

A few years ago I was completely overwhelmed… and when I say completely, I mean completely. To the point my brain could not take the effects of an old concussion and my visual system shut down. You guys it just shut down! I had been staying afloat in all the...

Adjust Your Approach, Change Your Everything

by Kirstin Ricketts | Feb 25, 2019 | Faith Matters, The Blog

For a long time, I viewed God in my mind’s eye as expansive like the sunrise: infinite, great, and yet, in that view…far away. Looking down at me, but inaccessible. While He is expansive, infinite, and great, God also knows the desires of my soul and the number...