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What does love look like?
“Love does not traffic in shame and disrespect, nor selfishly seek its own honor. Love is not easily irritated or quick to take offense. Love joyfully celebrates honesty and finds no delight in what is wrong. Love is a safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for others. Love never takes…
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Our only hope for the self care movement
Last week I posted a rather strongly worded sentiment about how weary I am of the self-care, love yourself movement. As with everything I post, I always click publish thinking it will be a cinch. I think I have said something so logical no one can possibly disagree, and then I am met with opposition…
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Three Weeks Married
Three weeks married. Three weeks married. After what felt like an eternal engagement, we are married at last. It was only five and a half months, but that was plenty of time to figure out I didn’t want to live a single day without my best friend. I’ve debated writing about the wedding, or opting…
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Dear Sarah on your wedding day
Dear Sarah in two days, You are getting married today. This has been your greatest dream since you were a little girl. You have watched Father of the Bride so many times you have mastered Franc’s mysterious accent, and your diaries are full of Mrs. Sarah ???? In a society that is desperately trying to…
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Dear Sarah on her wedding day…
Dear Sarah in two days, You are getting married today. This has been your greatest dream since you were a little girl. You have watched Father of the Bride so many times you have mastered Franc’s mysterious accent, and your diaries are full of Mrs. Sarah ???? In a society that is desperately trying to…
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Becoming Free From the Approval of Others
Don’t you love those seasons in your life when you have ample opportunity to realize a number of areas your character needs MAJOR help? Everyone told me planning a wedding is stressful, everyone tells me marriage is hard, but there’s something else I’m experiencing and it’s really giving me a run for my money. Over…
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Where Do Women Belong in the Church?..and other questions to ponder
All over social media, all I see is Beth Moore and John MacArthur. John MacArthur is a jerk, Beth Moore is out of the will of the Lord. Women should go home. Women should preach. As a woman, I have long wondered where indeed I belong. I have learned much from women speakers, but feel…
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Learning to let people go, and other confessions of an enneagram 2
Do remember Darla from Finding Nemo? Darla, who held the bag with the fish so excitedly she ruined the good thing she had going? Yeah, that’s how I feel I am with relationships. I make a friend, and then I never ever ever want to lose them. I will hold them with a death grip…
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Farmhouse Stories: what I learned last weekend
When I find I keep running into a particular circumstance and my attitude is a major point of difficulty, I realize that God must be trying to teach me something. Lucas and I are in the process of fixing up our farmhouse for when we get married in December. Last weekend we embarked on our…
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My New Career
In December of this year, I will begin a new career. This career will have lifetime benefits, great pay, and long hours. This career will be being a wife. I feel like a lot has changed over the past fifty years. Most of our mothers and most all my friends grew up with moms who…
Sarah D. Shearer 