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Today I turned 28. I keep thinking of this cliché - ten years ago I never would have imagined my life now, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. To spend my days as a helper to my husband and nurturing these three babies to know Christ is a calling I couldn’t love more. Our wise God never fails; He is the perfect Author of beauty and blessing.

And I was reminded by our church’s sermon today, to live is Christ, to die is gain. In these concerning times I’ve become ever aware of the fleeting nature of this life, and the wonder it is to enjoy His grace and the urgency to share His gospel through word and deed.

Truly tomorrow is not promised, so turn to Him for salvation today. Delight in Jesus. Love those around you with everything you’ve got. ❤️

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Some “resolutions” to set your heart on this y

Some “resolutions” to set your heart on this year, whatever comes.

Do you have a verse you’re focusing on for 2021?

Happy New Year! 🎉🙏🏼🥰

Before saying goodbye to the wild year of 2020, I

Before saying goodbye to the wild year of 2020, I wanted to participate in @laurawifler’s #2020goodlist and share several points of God’s kindness in our little home in the midst of global turmoil. Please comment with your own blessings and praises below - may we enter the new calendar with eyes on His grace!

✨ I spent the first half of the year cherishing Nehemiah’s baby kicks, and he was born safely during the pandemic. Can’t believe he’ll be half a year old soon. Baby snuggles are the best.
✨We had wonderful quality time with my in-laws who live cross-country in March, including walking around Disneyland and eating LA’s yummiest foods right before the shutdowns happened. They flew back days before it all went down!
✨With my husband working from home his usually busy schedule slowed and we enjoyed long beautiful walks and talks together outside in the peace of God’s creation. On that note, @isaiasnmunoz graduated from seminary! So, so proud of him and all he does for our family! 🙌🏼
✨Although pregnancy and ministering to 3 kiddos has really limited my time blogging, the joy of motherhood ever deepens and God graciously continues to use the Free Indeed website to reach thousands of woman around the world everyday with the truth of Jesus.
✨I discovered the inspiring IG homeschooling community through @gentle_classical_press and it’s been an unexpected blast doing pre-K with Amariah, memorizing Scripture around the breakfast table, teaching her to read, and rekindling my own appreciation for nature, poetry, art, and stories alongside her. I never thought I’d be “that” mom, but I’m loving every minute of it!
✨Ezra’s vocabulary as a toddler leaped this year and it’s a daily delight to hear him sing hymns and chatter his funny and compassionate thoughts.
✨We’ve been healthy overall and our Lord has amply provided our needs.

Despite the madness, the list could go on and on! All glory be to Him.

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What a year. But what a Savior! Jesus became what

What a year. But what a Savior! Jesus became what we are so that we may become what He is to the Father - a beloved child of God. All we have to do is trust in Him. From the manger to the cross to His triumph over the grave, He gifts us an untouchable hope. . .especially in the darkest of days. It’s a glorious day indeed!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours. ❤️🙌🏼🎄☺️

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✋ months today for Nehemiah! I’m not able to t

✋ months today for Nehemiah! I’m not able to take a photo with his month counting blanket, but didn’t want to lose track of the day in the midst of Christmas ☺️ He’s exploded developmentally recently - getting 2 teeth, babbling and trying to say sounds like crazy, rolling over in reach of toys, and growing from 9th to 61st percentile in height! 😳 As a result, his sleeping has been all over the place, but I’m learning to have loving patience through it once again. 😅🙏🏼 We love his chill and happy personality as he watches the other 2 kiddos run around. ❤️

🛕 “So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.” Nehemiah 4:6

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When I became a mother I had no idea “courage”

When I became a mother I had no idea “courage” would become a part of my daily vocabulary.

“Be brave,” I say nearly everyday, “God is with you.”

As we venture outside for walks my kids are starting to explore and test their physical limits by climbing rocks and scaling playground equipment. . . But not without fear and anxiety quivering in their hearts.

I coax them upward and downward with assurances, “Be strong. You can do it. I’m here. It’s okay to fall and get bumps and bruises, but keep trying. God helps us do hard things.”

God helps us do hard things. That’s what I don’t want them to forget. Because today it’s bars to the highest slide, but tomorrow it could be serving in a foreign land, walking boldly through fierce persecution, or simply staying faithful in an unexpected, dark trial.

I need to remember this myself, when my own responsibilities seem too much to bear... even impossible in my own strength. But they’re not in His.

I loved learning about the missionary Mary Slessor, who ministered to violent tribes in the jungles of Nigeria and took numerous orphans under her care as a single woman. By prayer and the Word, she believed God could and would make a way if it was His will. Knowing that, she had the courage to follow. So can we.

What do you need His courage for today? ❤️🙏🏼

“. . .For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you." Matthew 17:20

Just how long is forever? Can we truly wrap our mi

Just how long is forever? Can we truly wrap our mind around it?

We tend to use “forever” as a negative hyperbole:

“I haven’t seen you in forever!”
“This is taking forever.”

When we’re in pain, it may feel like forever. When we’re waiting the possibility of forever scares us.

But most of what we’re seeing and experiencing will NOT be forever. It’s momentary in the scope of eternity.

“For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison. . .”- 2 Corinthians 4:17

What WILL be forever is Jesus sitting on His throne. A throne of grace and goodness and glory, with us at His feet as He wipes away our every tear and we sing unending praise.

As I read the Old Testament prophecies and the Christmas story in Scripture one of God’s greatest promises of comfort to His people was that Jesus would be a forever King with a forever Kingdom.

Why should that comfort us?

It will be a Kingdom of righteousness and justice. Under Him, all that is good will be forever and all that is wrong will cease to exist. What finality. What a reality to come. What a living hope.

Let’s grab ahold of this forever in our hearts as we meditate on Him this Christmas.

“And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David,
33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end." Luke 1:31-33

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