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Calamity, Meet Jane | Open Your Bible With Me Have you ever forgiven somebody and then found yourself upset about something they did years ago? Not because you’ve been sitting around keeping score. Not because you’ve been rehearsing an argument in your head for the next family gathering. But because you’re just minding your own… Read more
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Do the Work Early So You Can Actually Have Thanksgiving Hunnies, if you followed Part One, we have officially made it to Thanksgiving week. The menu is planned. Everybody knows what they’re bringing. Most of the groceries are bought. The disposable pans are waiting. The leftover containers are ready. And, for the love of poultry,… Read more
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Get Ahead Before Thanksgiving Week Hunnies, I love Thanksgiving. The food. The family. The house full of people. Somebody hollering from one room to another. Kids running around. Coffee brewing. Pie sitting somewhere within reach. I love all of it. Here’s the thing: Thanksgiving should not surprise us. It’s on the calendar every year, babycakes.… Read more
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Hunnies, Thanksgiving is seven weeks away. That sounds like plenty of time—until I remember I work full time and most of my bigger house projects happen on the weekends. Seven weeks? That could really mean seven good cleaning days. Yikes. And I do not want to spend the night before Thanksgiving washing baseboards and wondering… Read more
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Part One: What the Bible Is Teaching Me About Discipline I’ve been keeping track of areas in my life where I struggle, especially with self-control and motivation. And after seeing the same pattern show up approximately four hundred and twelve times, I finally had to admit something: I reckon we have a discipline problem. I… Read more
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I was a grown woman, trying to navigate life and laundry with my new husband, when I discovered something rather shocking: Apparently not all families have a communal sock drawer. I know. I was surprised too. 😂 And before anybody starts judging my family’s sock situation, let’s remember Jane’s cardinal rule around here: We listen.… Read more
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Girl. Why have I been breading chicken with four bowls all these years?! You know how it goes. Milk. Flour. Egg. Breadcrumbs. Half the counter is dirty, and by the time you’re finished your fingers have ten different little crusty breading hats on them. You KNOW the finger caps I’m talking about. 😂 Then a… Read more
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You can go to church on Sunday and hear about drunkenness, sexual immorality, foul language, greed, addiction—all kinds of sin. But there’s one I don’t hear talked about nearly as much. Gluttony. And babycakes, I wish I were writing this from the other side of it. I’m not. I’m writing from smack-dab in the middle… Read more
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In some households, you may have one person who loves stuff. One person who creates sentimental value out of objects that absolutely do not deserve it. One person who hates wasting things so much they keep everything because, you know… just in case. And most of the time, that “just in case” either comes around… Read more
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Haggai was a prophet, and Haggai went to the people of his generation and was basically like: “Hey—why is your house all done up while the temple of God is in shambles?” See, the people had returned from exile. They were rebuilding their lives, rebuilding their homes, getting everything back together—but the temple of God… Read more
