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Tag: despair

When Your Life Is Devastated

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Jess Connell

Yesterday our family drove to Mount St. Helens, the famous volcano in Washington state that erupted in 1980. The eruption enacted complete devastation in the blast area. It “blew down so many trees that the toll was calculated at 4 billion board feet, the amount of lumber to build 300,000 two-bedroom homes.” The blast zone…

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Fear Full Mothering

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Jess Connell

Rising up this morning, I turned to Facebook videos before God’s Word. Mistake. Now the fears swirl: What is America’s fate? Economic decline? ISIS infiltration? Wicked leadership? Secularization and moral debasing beyond what already is the case? Same-sex marriage, LORD? SpittingĀ in the face of the beautiful God-designed picture of marriage of Christ and the Church?…

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