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This gorgeous print is for sale by Mary Grace Design ! There's a woman in my church who is known to declare that certain things are "from the pit." (Yeah, I'm looking toward the Scott family.) She says it half-jokingly, but she's pretty much spot-on with her assessment.  And right now I'm walking through life with a few friends--of at least three different generations--who feel alone. Either through pain or shame or fear, they feel no one understands, no one is there, and there's no one they can tell everything to. So please picture me gently grabbing your sweet chin and saying to you, like my friend, "That is a lie. Straight from the pit." You are not alone. Do not believe the voice telling you otherwise. "I know," you say, "Jesus promises to be with me." Indeed He does: In Matthew 28:20 Jesus said, "And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Romans 8:11 promises, ...

There is a beautiful piece of property across the road from us, close to 200 acres. It's been an untouched wilderness since we moved here 12 years ago: no houses, no people. So when I look out my front window, all I could see across the road were mature, thick trees.  Unfortunately that property recently changed hands, and the new owners must have realized there are many thousands of dollars worth of timber on it. So they hired loggers to cut down and sell the mature trees. In order to do that, though, they have to knock or cut down all the trees , because the little ones get in the way of the big ones. They started at one end of the property and are slowly making their way to the area directly across from us. And it's made us so sad. Total confession here: My sadness is completely selfish. I don't usually get gloomy over logging, but it's happening 12 feet from my mailbox . I will admit that God has chastised me when I see that truck full of logs driving away ...