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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake!: April 2013
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake! Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Come to the Table: A review of Bread and Wine. I was honored and overjoyed to be an early reader for Bread and Wine. As a self-proclaimed foodie, I love food and everything about it. I love the tastes and the smells, the textures and the colors. I love that food is both a love language we speak to and an art we create for those around us. I love that anyone can cook. And that the most delicious dishes never come from a recipe but from experimenti...
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake!: June 2013
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake! Monday, June 24, 2013. Attraversiamo: Let's cross over. And so it begins. The journey I've been longing for, or I guess the chapter I've been anticipating on this journey I've long been walking. A new season of freedom in uncertainty. Agenda-less, but not without direction. My. Adventure. The one I've always dreamed up in my head, never really expecting to become reality. I learned a lot about self-care and the need for healthy boundaries in all areas of life. As I began...
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake!: August 2012
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake! Monday, August 27, 2012. Grace Center: a house to call home. I recently found a church I've decided to call home. A house in which His presence dwells. Because the people that fill it welcome Him. A community that comes together to joyfully, honestly, and passionately meet with God. There is power in this church. A powerful presence of God. A powerful use of His spiritual gifts. A powerful existence of the supernatural. A powerful way of worship. A powerf...In just a cuople ...
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake!: June 2012
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake! Tuesday, June 5, 2012. Incredibly angry, but still forever Yours. I still do the whole doubt dance. That's what I'm calling it these days. The back and forth, "is that you, God? Cause maybe that's just me. Maybe I'm insane. But I really feel like I heard you. But how is that even possible? I must be crazy. Or am I? And so on and so forth. I doubt. I question. But nonetheless, I know God speaks to me in those moments. I know it's Him. And here comes the big BUT. There was a r...
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake!: January 2013
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake! Sunday, January 20, 2013. In the treetops of your wildest dreams. Radnor has become my refuge. The perfect escape. My own Green Cathedral. Where peace emanates throughout. Cares wisp away in the wind. Obligations and to-do lists sink to the lake bottom. The hazy fog is pealed back from my strained and weary eyes, and brightness seeps in. Brilliant colors glisten on the water's surface. I can smell the freedom in the scent of pine. Hear the possibilities in the chatter of...
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake!: February 2013
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake! Monday, February 25, 2013. I spent this past weekend in Philadelphia at The Justice Conference. I had heard a lot about the conference from many people I know. They all said it was inspiring for anyone in this line of work and that I and my team needed to attend. Being at The Justice Conference was a great experience.but not in the way I thought it would be. Eugene Cho said so well: "Make sure that the pursuit of God is that which informs your pursuit of justice and not the ...
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake!: December 2012
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake! Wednesday, December 19, 2012. Freedom Lies in Being Bold (or why I chopped off my hair). I was sitting in the chair, staring at her through the mirror as she chopped two foot long ponytails off my head, when the stylist asked, "So what made you decide to cut off all this hair? When I paused to come up with an answer I could actually word, she responded in fear, "Oh no, you didn't break up with a boyfriend, did you? I needed a tangible reminder that I am and can be bold.
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake!: July 2012
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake! Monday, July 23, 2012. What lights the fire in your belly? I had a wonderful conversation today with a wise woman. Not just wise, like lived longer than me wise, but deeply, deeply wise. Full of rich knowledge to unpack wise. Dreaming big but possible wise. Making sense of illogical human ways wise. Prophetic wise. She was real. She was determined. She knew her power. Her strengths. Her skills. Her purpose. And she was waiting to use it all for the Ki...I could write ten dif...
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake!: My balcony changed everything
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Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake! Thursday, June 13, 2013. My balcony changed everything. It's hard to imagine ever leaving this balcony. And yet, in only a month I will. This small platform has been my refuge throughout the past year. Fenced in by a wall of hearts, I found healing I never dreamed possible. My view was God's canvas for revealing himself and redefining love in my life. Untainted by life circumstance and non-conformed to expectation or desire. Out here, my soul was naked once again. Se...Our d...
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