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FMF :: Visit

Welcome to Five Minute Friday where a community of beautiful people come together once a week and write unedited for five minutes with Kate in the lead.  Join us.

Visit.

Go.

I sit down to type this post with tomorrow on my mind.  It happens to be Shine a Light on Slavery Day.  Our family has teamed up with #EndItMovement to help spread the word and make a difference.

Imagine not having the…

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On Birthdays, Giveaways and Ending IT

On Birthdays, Giveaways and Ending IT

Have you ever had a birthday sneak up on you?

That is exactly what happened here in blog kingdom.  A friend/reader congratulated me on the birthday of the ole blog and I had completely forgotten.  We’re 3!  Woo HOO!  Who’d have thought we’d get three years in of posting and sharing and living and hopefully encouraging you in the ride!

So for all your patience and good will shared here at Rockin’…

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The Fringe Hours

“Just because something is a good thing doesn’t mean it is good for this moment in your life.”

- #FringeHours www.fringehours.com/order/

There are good things, and there are the best things.

To every thing there is a season.  As women, our lives take on many seasons.  Single seasons and married seasons. Seasons of sickness and seasons of thriving health and activity.  We may experience seasons…

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Live the Life

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We just got back from the celebration of a life I was so blessed to know.  A very special aunt ended her story on this planet to begin a new chapter in Jesus’ presence.

She was a precious woman.  Human of course, not perfect.  But, full of grace and love.  She was the kind of woman you wanted to be around.

When you talked, she really listened.  She told great stories and fed…

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Hope Has A Name

Hope Has A Name

Hope has a name.

Of course it does.

I walked into church at the start of this new year with a full heart and heavy shoulders.  Life has been curvy lately.  The kinds of curves that leave you carsick, not the ones that make you throw up your hands in wild delight like a roller coaster ride.  I was waking each morning to find my dizzy self drowning, grasping madly for a hope-line.

Hope has a…

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FMF :: Send

Send.

If we think about it, this whole thing called life if just a big send circle isn’t it?

I was sent by a Divine Creator to two people thirty some years ago to fulfill a purpose only I could do.

Then I was sent by those two to go out armed with the lessons of life and faith and do what I was sent to do.

Now we’ve been sent four, yes, one-two-three-four little men to eventually send on their…

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FMF 2015 :: Welcome

FMF 2015 :: Welcome

Well hello there!  Come on in.  So glad you’ve come by….This is how we make each other welcome in our homes.

What about Jesus?  How do we welcome Him into our lives day in, day out?

Holy Spirit you are welcome here.

Welcome in our hearts.

We’re preparing a place where you feel at home.  Where the ground is fertile for your work to begin and flourish in our lives.

But sometimes, we forget to make…

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I Hope You'll Dance

I Hope You’ll Dance

Hope.

Hopeless.

So very far apart and yet so close together.  Hopeless can become hopeful with just an encouraging word, a hug, an affirming look.

We have the power to bring hope or even more sobering is the power to selfishly snatch it away with our careless words and thoughtless actions.

But the better news here is, we have the power to bring it.  Every. Single. Time.

This song came on in a…

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One Word 2015 :: HOPE

One Word 2015 :: HOPE

Do you need a drop of grace to carry you through 2015?

I sure do.  This year’s one word has been knocking around the old walls of my heart for weeks now.

Today I share it with you.  And what better to go with the one word than a song, right?  You know these  lives we’re living are set to their very own soundtrack anyway.  You do know that, yes?  He’s singing over us.  Quieting us with His love.

B…

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Adore

Back for the final FMF of 2014.  I couldn’t miss it.

Five minutes of writing, unedited.  Straight from the heart.  To learn more visit katemotaung.com to join in the fun.

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Adore.

I adore long walks on the beach.  No really I do.

I adore my four blessings that make me crazy and cause my heart to explode in a good way all at the same time.

I adore peace and quite.

I adore loud and crazy.

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Get Real Fridays

So I’ve had this idea in my mind for months now.

It all started when…..

There are so many Pinterest perfect lives being put out there on social media.  The perfect picture, the perfect room, the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe, the perfect hombre hair, the perfect activity to keep your child busy while you try to educate the other two activity.

And while I’ve been a sucker for ideas since I…

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Vulnerable

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will…

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Resting in the Waiting

Resting in the Waiting

So many seasons of our lives are filled by periods of waiting aren’t they?

Waiting to grow up.

Waiting to marry.

Waiting to finish this task, or achieve that accomplishment.

Then, you might have children and you wait for them to complete this phase, and get out of that stage.

We can wile away our entire lives always waiting for the next thing, and forget to live our real lives in the here and…

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Comparison Kills the Real Life

Comparison Kills the Real Life

Today, remember when you’re tempted to compare your body, car, bank account, house, children, life and shoes…..

You bring something to this world that no one else can.  You bring yourself.

You’re special and you have purpose specific to you.

If you are caught up in the destructive cycle of comparing yourself to every thing coming down the pike, confess it.  Feel the clean feeling that comes only…

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31 Days Meets FMF...again

31 Days Meets FMF…again

Five Minute Friday is a community of writers who write on one prompt unedited for five minutes.  We are hosted by Kate.  Join us anytime…

Enjoy

So much of getting real with life can break down into enjoyment.  Being content where we are placed.  Believing we are placed and not stuck.  Seeing those silver linings instead of focusing on the thunder.

Just enjoying the ride.

Challenges come, yet we…

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Getting Real With Each Other

Getting Real With Each Other

Let’s face it.  Social Media has changed our lives.

Some for the good, and some for the not so good.

With the accessibility comes new demands, both outwardly imposed and self inflicted.

We now face challenges we never faced before.  Now more than ever it is so important to have a healthy view of who you are.

The comparison factor is in your face and ugly.  Being selfie centeredhas taken on brand…

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