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Get Up, Take Your Mat, and Go Home.

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Hey everyone! Quick encouragement for today. You ever feel like something is holding you back? Maybe your weight/health, bad habits, toxic relationships…everyone would complain there’s something in life they’d like to make better. You just can’t seem to get any gumption to go and change it! You feel trapped…lethargic…without any energy or power to try. We’re all in that boat. But you don’t have to stay there. I was reading last night in the book of Matthew. I have been doing this “Bible in 1 Year” plan, reading the Bible in a different translation than I normally would…it’s really helping me see Scripture in a new light. In last night’s passage, Jesus was healing a paralytic. Some friends of the paralyzed man brought him to Jesus, lying on a mat. This is the story where Jesus first forgives the sins of the paralytic and is instantly criticized by the “religious men” for forgiving sins instead of just performing a miracle, like usual. Jesus, in the part of His response to the crit...
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COVID-19 Thoughts: I'm *not* OK

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When I started this blog, my plan was to walk you through the many different ways we will build our stonewall. A stonewall built on pieces of life. A stonewall built of memories, experiences and all things YOU that God has given us to walk through. Its like having your testimony built around you against the enemy when he comes prowling to attack your "city". Such the little philosopher I planned to be, to let yall know that life is messy, and to be patient if your wall isn't built in a day. A month. A year. But honestly...I think my wall is struggling. When COVID-19 came along, I planned for a quick self-quarantine in my house with 9 other people I call family. It would be a loud and crazy time to build relationships! And it has been such a blessing to spend quality time with my siblings. But then I got hit hard. I'm always busy, always in motion, always with somewhere I need to be. Instead in this Corona crisis, I was laid off from both of my jobs. My world, whic...
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Rebuilding My Stonewall

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Welcome to Stonewall!  Nehemiah 4:6 "So we rebuilt the wall...for the people worked with all their heart." For those of you who know me, you're probably shaking your heads right now. Really Abbie, Stonewall? Like the general from the Civil War? Look, I know I'm obsessed with the Civil War, and Gettysburg, and especially that guy, but no. This isn't solely a Civil War blog. Its more of a journey. (And we'll see if I can sprinkle in some Civil War later, just because. I can't help it). A few weeks ago, I was visiting a church with family, and the pastor was focusing on a piece of Scripture from the book of Nehemiah. If you've never read Nehemiah, its one of the small books in the Old Testament. (For all of you that just recited the Old Testament books to find Nehemiah--after Ezra and before Esther, Job and Psalms--I am proud of you). Nehemiah was a cup bearer, serving King Artaxerxes of Persia, who had just conquered the Babylon kingdom. History n...
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