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Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. I expected my twenties to include diaper changes and breastfeeding. Like anyone whose pump had been primed for parenting, I assumed that trying to have children meant conceiving children. A few long years later, I was ushered into motherhood through the back door. A dream that we had to adopt, birthed when we were young and had eyes full of great expectations for our life, happened in a way we didn’t quite anticipate. As the runner said, I write, ...

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When You Stop Being Invulnerable | Every Bitter Thing is Sweet

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Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. When You Stop Being Invulnerable. July 22, 2015. 8220;There’s a word for that,” he said. “They are ‘invulnerables’.”. He spoke to what we’d presumed. They were untouchable, unadulterated by loss that had shrouded the years before they could even walk. Our children — former orphans — had been preserved. And I was relieved. I thought for sure. Until one day we couldn’t anymore. But really — is anyone? She wasn’t ready for that. In public. I don&...

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What Wonder Can Do for the Human Heart | Every Bitter Thing is Sweet

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Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. What Wonder Can Do for the Human Heart. July 1, 2015. Summer is about wonder. I grew up knowing summer to be the pungent smell of saltwater air that envelops the east coast oceanfront towns. The summer after I asked Jesus into my heart, I couldn’t wait to get back to the beach it was as if the air was thinner there. Everything was {I’m writing over here today. Pop on over to keep reading — }. Laquo; Previous Post. Next Post ». I Will Not Defer.

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Adoration Explained | Every Bitter Thing is Sweet

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Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. I’m a tea lover. I wake up craving a warm drink to wrap my fingers around and many times throughout the day I’m standing over a cup of recently boiled-water adding honey to its leaves. Sweet interludes to my mundanity. But better than my morning chai, is a practice I’ve picked up that’s become a way of breathing. Adoration: Inhaling His Word and exhaling praise. For some practicals of adoration, read Showing Up. So I look up. When I look up, I see...

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How Marriage is Teaching Me to Search the Whole Person | Every Bitter Thing is Sweet

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Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. How Marriage is Teaching Me to Search the Whole Person. August 17, 2016. How well do you think your husband knows you? This new-to-me christian counselor asked me on a frigid January afternoon as I sat in her office. Really well, I responded without thinking. After a studied pause, she asked, What percentage of ‘all of you’ does he know? This was fifteen years ago, when I was boldly certain Nate knew most all of me and I knew most all of him.

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Adoration | Every Bitter Thing is Sweet

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Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. Holy Week Adoration: You Said Her Name In That Way. April 4, 2015. She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away. Jesus said to her, Mary! She turned and said to Him, Rabboni! Which is to say, Teacher). excerpt from John 20:11-18* You conquered the world’s limitation, and You called her by name. She stumbled,…. April 3, 2015. April 2, 2015. If we sit...

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Fatherless on Father's Day {a note to my dad} | Every Bitter Thing is Sweet

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Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. Fatherless on Father’s Day {a note to my dad}. June 18, 2015. I once heard a set of parents say that they wanted their ceiling to be their children’s floor. If you’d heard that, too, you would have said it. You lived it. Even after the time when girls start to hold secrets inside, I told you everything. Our stiff living room furniture absorbed conversations that were supple. My heart was safe with you, Dad. You normalized me. You primed me to rece...

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Adoption | Every Bitter Thing is Sweet

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Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. A Few Posts to Give Background:. Our Uganda Adoptions (2011). So That Nothing Is Lost. Why We’re Adopting Again. God Doesn’t Need Me. Our Ethiopia Adoptions (2009). To The Hungry Soul Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet. Joy in the midst of waiting. Beauty from ashes. Seeing Jesus’ thread through every frame of life. So, in the midst of all of this . we turn to look up. Read More of My Story. Notes from me, right into your inbox. Or Select from Archives.

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Book | Every Bitter Thing is Sweet

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Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. NEW: Free Book Club Discussion Guide. Hosting or joining a book club. Download the first chapter. NYT Bestselling Author,. Excerpt from her Foreword to the book]. With vulnerability and insight, Sara Hagerty shares her story and invites the deep parts of us to find the deep parts of Him, where life is found. It is a profound testimony to the love and goodness of an intimate and beautiful God. Co-author of New York Times Bestseller. 8220;Whatever l...