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Stephanie Winslow
- Nov 27, 2018
- 2 min
Valued? Or Valuable?
When the silence of the night settles in your ears, what do you hear? The humming of a ceiling fan or the rumble of cars on the road? The static of a baby monitor or the tumbling of the dryer? When the noises fade to the background and your thoughts take center stage what do your thoughts say to you? What thoughts resound the loudest? What thoughts take up residence and infiltrate your mind? Most thoughts that seem to permeate in the background of the mind can be boiled down
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Stephanie Winslow
- Nov 14, 2018
- 3 min
Ready. Fire. Aim.
What does it mean to be meek? Does it mean weakness? Or lack of strength? In the eyes of our modern world, absolutely. Meekness is synonymous with fragility and powerlessness. But just because that is the way our world defines it does not make it true or right. Instead, if we fix our eyes on the truth of God's word, that is active, alive and relevant even today, we understand that meekness is not weakness at all. In fact, meekness is a higher form of strength because it is ex
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Stephanie Winslow
- Oct 31, 2018
- 3 min
Speck of Dust
Over the last year my husband has been finishing our basement. The framing, dry walling, and tiling produced more dust than I was prepared for. The dust floated and fluttered all of the way to our second floor. Dust travels. It spreads. There was nothing in the house that was untouched by the dust. Every piece of furniture, every picture frame, covered. Even the walls were coated. As I thought about how I was going to clean away all of the dust from everywhere and everything
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Stephanie Winslow
- Oct 24, 2018
- 2 min
The Mics On
Check. Check. Is this thing on? Check. Check. Shakespeare penned, "All the world's a stage...and one man in his time plays many parts." We each have roles to play. Parts that only we can perform. We are molded into these roles through open doors and shut ones, through circumstances and mentors. When we arise in the morning to face the world's stage before us what are we to bring to the table? When we have the mic in hand what do we share? We exist in a microcosm of the world
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Stephanie Winslow
- Oct 17, 2018
- 3 min
The Weight of Honor
Honor. Seems like a straight forward word. But how is it lived out? When I think of what honor means to me I lean toward the Webster dictionary definition which says honor is "a showing of usually merited respect." Usually merited. Hmm. Does this definition represent honor in the way God intends us to display it? On my journey at a Christ follower I have never known God to be a God of exclusion- where He casts us aside if we do not perform for Him. Or only loves us if we lov
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Stephanie Winslow
- Oct 2, 2018
- 2 min
Do Over
Interference in the game of volleyball can be a welcome disruption. When the game is close, or tied neck to neck, fierce emotions for the win wield inside of each player on the court and on the sidelines. The interference provides space for each team to take a breather and re-focus. At times an interference can cause a team or individual players to get too distracted to get their minds back in the game. Interference usually breaks up the pressure, one team rises above it and
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