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The Failed Personality Test {for when the lines that define you are fuzzy}
by Trina Holden Have you ever cried after taking a personality test? I sobbed the last time I took one. I can laugh about it now, but at the time I was devastated. I’d spent several hours...
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Slowing Down Our Food {3 Tips for Savoring Mealtimes}
by Trina Holden I’m a real foodie who loves her ‘slow food’ as fast as possible. I shovel food like a backhoe gulps dirt, and even wrote a book about making real food as fast as possible so you can get...
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In Praise of Reading Slowly
by Trina Holden I just finished a book I started last October. From the outset, I knew this book (A Million Little Ways by Emily Freeman) was one I’d be reading slowly, to savor and internalize. For...
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The One Thing You Don’t Need to Have Great Devotions
by Trina Holden I had given up. I could not find space in my day for devotions, so I gave up trying, hoping it would lessen my shame. One final giving up, instead of a daily failure. Yes, I’d try to...
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Giving the Gift of Understanding in Relationships
by Trina Holden I was 21 when I first read The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. My mind was blown as I began to see and understand my family members in light of their unique love style. The...
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Called to Be Ambassadors of Beauty
Is the pursuit of beauty worth of our time? I asked myself this question awhile back because I was honestly wondering if creating and celebrating beauty was a valid thing to add to the list of all the...
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When God Doesn’t Fit in Your Busy
During my first years as a mother of young children, the spiritual discipline of spending time with God looked nothing like the hour-long, rich and satisfying devotions I enjoyed as a single woman. I...
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books for when motherhood becomes a full-time job
Now I desire to encourage other young moms and moms-to-be to make the time to read certain titles before the squalls of full-time motherhood arrive. Get direction now, so that when the winds hit,...
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When Holidays Don’t Follow the Recipe
We’re celebrating Thanksgiving in Alabama. Even though we live in upstate New York. We will celebrate Christmas in New York, but without Grandma and Grandpa. They’ll be in Alabama. See, my husband’s...
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When a Book is Not “Just” a Book
My first book was just a cookbook. Friends chide me when I seem to diminish my work with that little word ‘just’. They tell me it is more than a cookbook, that it is lovely, that it is not ‘just’...
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Called to Be Ambassadors of Beauty
Is the pursuit of beauty worth of our time? I asked myself this question awhile back because I was honestly wondering if creating and celebrating beauty was a valid thing to add to the list of all the...
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how to fight loneliness in marriage
When I got married I expected that, along with the emotional and physical oneness I was promised, I’d at last have that spiritual partnership I thought was a part of every good, Christian marriage. But...
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