Below is a link to a devotional I wrote last year for Thrive Ministry's online Connection Magazine. I pray you are encouraged. https://thriveministry.org/connection/devotional/anchored-in-rest
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From Thrive Connection: Daily Devotionals for Global Workers
This is a short devotional I wrote a while ago for Thrive Connection at thriveminsitry.org. The photo used above is from Thrive Connection. If you would like to receive their daily devotionals in your email inbox, please like and subscribe to the link below. Thanks for reading! ❤ , Chrissy Here is the link for …
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My Family’s Favorite Salad (Well…one of them)
The other post in this category is for almond flour chicken strips baked in the oven. The dipping sauce for these strips is simply honey mixed with mustard. In my home, this salad goes with that chicken strip recipe. I like the honey mustard dipping sauce because it can also be used as a salad …
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A Devo. from Thrive Connection: Purpose
Last year I wrote this short devotional for Thrive Connection. I hope it's encouraging. I will share more in the future. Here is the link: https://thriveministry.org/connection/devotional/coming-home-to-purpose

When Body Image and Culture Stress Collide
A story from my home country-- On a sweltering summer day in my childhood I was playing outside with my best friend. We were excited about our matching sundresses. A woman walked by and pinched our legs, saying to my friend, "skinny little legs!" and saying to me, "fat little legs!" She was trying to …
A Resource for Global Women
https://thriveministry.org/connection/devotional/a-curvy-girl-in-the-real-world Here is a link for Thrive Ministry's Daily Devotionals through the online magazine, Connection. Thrive is a great resource for ladies serving globally. I wrote this particular devotion as a submission to see if I could join Thrive's writing team. I will continue to share links to their site as future devotionals I've written …

May Your Kingdom Come, Beginning in Me
The blind and lame. Outcasts. Women with colorful histories and men who cheated others out of hard earned money. People with bitter hearts and those who had lost faith in God because of corrupt systems. These represent some of the people Jesus helped, with problems ranging from physical ailments to seemingly unconquerable personal prejudices and …

Easy, Healthy Recipes (starting w/ chicken strips)
A little over one year ago I contracted Lyme Disease and it changed my life. I felt exhausted most of the day, could not stop sweating, had intense joint pain, and experienced overwhelming feelings of depression. I researched the subject of Lyme thoroughly and found that since my case was diagnosed quickly, I had a …
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Chips!
Most churches my dad pastored had wooden pews. Adults saw them simply as seats; especially spots where certain cushions meant, “Mine. Don’t sit here.” During my childhood I saw pews as many things. Just after they had been dusted with furniture polish they made amazing slides. When the “Mine. Don’t sit here” people were not …