Positive Boundaries.

Rachael Lynn. Rocking this shit and being a semi-badass since '93. I'm a writer, a lover, and a woman of God. Most importantly, I am all of those whole heartily and fiercely.

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Last Week Tonight s02e13

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This. So much

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Baby Stuff Questions

…’Cause I’m feeling beyond overwhelmed. 

-Do I really need a diaper bag? Or will a nice big tote work just as well? Because every diaper bag I’ve seen is just plain ugly. 

-Do I need a swing? An excersaucer? And a bouncer? I want to be as minimalistic as possible when it comes to things that are unnecessary and will quickly become obsolete to the baby. 

-Will the baby let me breastfeed him and dad bottle-feed him in the wee hours of the morning? Or will baby know better than to fall for our little trick?

-Where can I find an aesthetically pleasing play mat? I really don’t want primary colors and cartoon figures to have a huge presence in the general living space. 

-Anything I should buy secondhand? I’m weary of soft, cloth based things but hardbodied necessities, I’m totally openminded. 

-Stroller talk. While the Uppababy Vista is definitely at the top of my list and when/if we add another child to the brew after this little guy I can’t help but think that it, with all of it’s features, will be a better investment than many others. That said, it’s pricey. And while I love quality, I love quality paired with a bargain even more. What are your recommendations on chic, functional, and transitional strollers? 

-Impart your wisdom on me, please!?

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Zac Brown Band

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so this whole sleeping terribly while pregnant thing is supposed to be preparing me for the exhaustion of a newborn, right?

What I would give to wake up feeling well-rested just ONE morning before the baby arrives.

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Five Children From Five Faiths Show How Pure Prayer Can Be

There’s nothing quite like the open, trusting faith of a child. In the short film “Five,”

director Katina Mercadante

follows five 5-year-olds as they get ready, leave home and attend prayer services. Viewers see the children, who live around the world, carefully pull on their best clothes, wash up and travel with their parents to their respective houses of worship.

Watch the full video here. 

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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via kvtes)

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Lord You never let go of me.

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The Hard Question of Missions

How many of us go on short-term missions trips and do just this? Wander around thinking we’re accomplishing something but actually having no purpose? And in fact, causing more harm by going than if we’d never gone?

In spite of our good intentions, it feels like we are looking at a post-card instead of regular, everyday people whose lives deserved more dignity than a photo can offer.

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The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels — those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness.

Undaunted  (via littlethingsaboutgod)

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Madonna didn’t report her rape — for the same reason many victims stay silent. 

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I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the people you love something humble and nourishing, like soup and bread, like a story, like a hand holding another hand while you pray. We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, for how much we accomplish, for how much life we can pack into one day. But I’m coming to believe it’s in the in-between spaces that our lives change, and that the real beauty lies there.

Shauna Niequist, A New Approach to the Table (via larmoyante)

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A gentle response defuses anger.

Proverbs 15:1 (via kvtes)

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To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it - made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand

C.S. Lewis; The Business of Heaven (via kvtes)

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They may surround me like lions and crush me on all sides. I may fall, but I will rise. Not by my might, or my power, or by the strength of swords; only through Your love, my Lord. All we’ve lost will be restored.

Rise // Josh Garrels (via kvtes)