What happened when I finally said yes to the dream God had given me years ago. Flannels & Pearls hosted its first women’s retreat in April 2026 — Rest. Restore. Renew. — in Phoenix, Arizona. This is the story of how it happened, and what God did when ten women gathered in the desert. A […]
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There is a woman in the seventh chapter of Luke whose name we never learn. Luke doesn’t give it to us. He just tells us she was a woman in that town who was a sinner. Which in the first century meant everyone already knew everything about her. She was defined entirely by the worst
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BLOG SERIES: WHEN FORGIVENESS IS HARD – Part 5: What Jesus asks us to do with the people who hurt us most “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.” — Matthew 5:44–45 CSB I remember the
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BLOG SERIES: WHEN FORGIVENESS IS HARD – Part 4: What I couldn’t see until God cleared it all out “If you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother;
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BLOG SERIES: WHEN FORGIVENESS IS HARD – Part 3 “Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.” — Ephesians 4:26–27 NIV There have been seasons of my life where unforgiveness was so woven into my daily experience that I stopped recognizing it as
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There is a kind of forgiveness the self-help world talks about — the kind you manufacture through willpower and positive thinking. Decide to forgive. Choose to let it go. Fake it until you make it. And then there is the kind God offers. The kind that doesn’t come from you at all. I’ve needed both
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There are names we carry. Faces that rise up uninvited — in the middle of worship, in the quiet of a morning walk, in that fragile space between sleep and waking. People who hurt us deeply. Some of them knew exactly what they were doing. Some didn’t. And some of them we loved. I know
The Weaver in the Dark: What Joseph Teaches Us About Letting Go Read More »
I’ll be honest with you. For years, I struggled to find a Lenten devotional that actually worked for me. Some were too academic—full of theological language that felt distant from my everyday life. Others were too shallow—nice thoughts, but nothing that challenged me or invited me deeper. And many just didn’t leave room for the
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“Come away by yourselves to a remote place and rest for a while.” — Mark 6:31 When Was the Last Time You Truly Rested Not the kind of rest where you collapse on the couch after everyone’s finally in bed, scrolling mindlessly through your phone while your mind races with tomorrow’s to-do list. Real rest.
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INTRODUCTION I’ve been blogging off and on since 2012. Mostly off. I loved my family, loved to bake, and had deep thoughts to share. Before I knew about the Pioneer Woman, I was told I was a version of that—a woman juggling motherhood, family, and creativity. But beneath the surface was a reality I couldn’t
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