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Traci Frees

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When Your Call is Devalued

    Are you discouraged in your role at work or at home? Are you striving for a promotion that just doesn’t seem to materialize? Be not… 

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    Courage to Keep Going

      Whether we are dealing with challenges in our lives related to daily living, relationships, career, personal challenges, or in our spiritual walk, God is the… 

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      Be Thou My Vision

        Sometimes a simple, classic hymn can draw one away from the noise of the world and into divine worship of God. Be Thou My Vision… 

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        What is a Shepherd?

          I came upon this video that vividly explains how Jesus is the Good Shepherd of our souls! If you are lost and undone, watch this… 

          Jesus, Salvation, & Baptism

            For those who don’t fully understand the whole Jesus and Salvation reality, please see this movie. In the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John… 

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            Advice for Living Today

              Let us look to the Holy Bible as the roadmap for navigating in our world today. Be not discouraged, beloveds. If you know God through… 

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              From Grief Re-lived to Relieved

                For a long season I went about wondering, “Why am I so sad?” I finally began to notice the pattern. Pictures of devastating loss and… 

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                In Awe of God

                  Take heart, oh weary one. Do not be tossed about with the noise of the world. Look unto the author and perfecter of your faith:… 

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                  His Peace Stabilizes

                    When you do not see ahead, when you are surrounded by loss and grief, when you are filled with joy and rejoicing, when you are… 

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                    Broken Hearted

                      Though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we will fear no evil. For any who have suffered loss, disappointment, or discouragement.… 

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                      Ponder These Things

                        Luke 1:39-55 In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house… 

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                        Do I Love God Enough

                          For a long season I have questioned whether I love God enough. I wrestle with what Paul did when he said that which I don’t… 

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                          What Do Chickens Know

                            Did you know that hens talk or cluck to their chicks whilst they are still in their eggs? As the chicks grow older and develop… 

                            Mighty oak tree spreading its limbs to the sky in workship to God.

                            Longing Fulfilled

                              Oh God, this longing for Thee is quenched by nothing else in the world – whether substances, materials, or actions to appease our flesh, whether… 

                              Three brown chickens praising God with all their "chicken-ness" in a green yard.

                              What’s in Your Mouth is Nothing

                                While letting three backyard hens run in the yard one morning, one of them picked up a piece of plastic and began to celebrate. Thinking…