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The Gift of the Second Cup
“The Good and Beautiful Bible Study” is my newest little treasure. It’s a devotional series which combines art elements with Scripture. Today’s reading was about the woman who anointed Jesus. She broke open a very expensive bottle of perfume and washed Jesus’ feet with it. She was seen as wasteful by everyone who witnessed the…
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The Gift of Joy: Trading Anxiety For Gratitude
I recently hit my 200th blog post, and it’s inspired me to write about gratitude which is one of the themes of kamillegrace.com. Truthfully, my blog wouldn’t even exist if I had listened to that voice in my head, the one that told me no one would care what I had to say, and I…
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The Gift of Joy: a Story About Faith
My heart sank when I drove passed the wildflower garden a few weeks ago and saw nothing but tall grass, and it sank even further when my mom confirmed that’s all she saw as well. I had been looking forward to my visit since winter. For some reason though, those little flowers just didn’t appear…
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The Gift of Joy: Changing Your Perspective
See all those colorful wildflowers? For months leading up to that morning, nothing but grass filled the entire field. Rain, ice, snow, and eventually the hot sun all came before the beautiful, color filled field of wildflowers. That field was always a garden; it simply wasn’t in season. According to my perspective, that field was…
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The Gift of Joy: What the Wildflowers Taught Me
“Like wildflowers, we must allow ourselves to grow in all the places people never thought we would.” E.V. Rogina Wildflowers are difficult plants to tame. These stubborn little flowers continue to spread joy even in the most unlikely circumstances. We often will see them growing on the side of the highway or even through cracks…
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The Gift of Joy: Rediscovering Awe
Do you ever think back to when you were a child and wish you could go back? Why do you think that is? I can answer that for you in one word: joy. Children in their natural state are beings of pure joy. One of the reasons for this is their ability to see the…
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The Gift of Joy: Refined By Fire
Some people will spend their whole lives longing for joy but never find it. Others will find themselves at times grasping ahold of it only to have it somehow slip right through their fingers time and time again. Few people will every truly understand the meaning of joy and even fewer will hold on to…
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The Gift of Joy: Finally Finding Freedom
How would you describe joy? Like a field of wildflowers on a bright summer day—vibrant and warm; free. If you asked me this question a month ago, this is probably how I would respond. God’s been speaking to me lately. He’s been speaking to me through pain, through waiting, through uncertainty, through trials, and tribulations.…
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The Gift of Joy: Becoming Your Own Brand of Beautiful
I looked at all the little wildflowers around me, the same flowers many would walk past without noticing, and others would call weeds. The sun had just risen, and it was casting its golden light over the field of flowers. They looked so full of joy. It was almost as if they knew just how…
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The Gift of Wildflowers
My mom lives near this wildflower garden, one of my favorite little places in town. For months I’ve asked her “Have the wildflowers bloomed yet?” “Not yet.” She kept replying. “It’s not hot enough.”Wildflowers grow from the heat of the summer, and we too grow from heat. We can’t expect to live a sheltered life…
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