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If you want to be a blogger | Meg Marie Wallace
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if you want to be a blogger

This morning I received an email from a young mama wanting to start a blog. She read my post on how to begin one but wanted to ask some follow up questions. “How much time do you need to spend on it a day/week etc. to be successful. Can you tell me if you were…

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travel diary: sea otter inn, cambria

You may remember a few weeks ago Matt and I got to take a trip up the coast, just the two of us. We love to plan out time together without the kids, especially when there is a busier season we are about to head into…and I’m so glad we planned that time just before…

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my BEST insider Disneyland tips

We LOVE being Annual Disney Passholders! We go to Disneyland or California Adventure at least once a week and absolutely love it. Many of you have asked for tips and advice to plan and navigate a visit to the park…and this list is our best advice to date. Keep in mind these are simply my…

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difficult friendships and good confrontation
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difficult friendships and good confrontation

A few months ago I tried to speak with a friend about something troubling my heart. I felt a wedge growing between us and didn’t want it to be there. Maybe it was on my end, maybe it was on hers. Maybe it was both. Finding out seemed to be the most loving thing I…

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first day of school and our 2017-2018 plan

Our literal first day of school this year was at Disneyland! We spent the morning working hard on our books and then as we finished up lunch I told the kids that we had one thing left to do. It was time for family P.E. and that they had to wear a special hat for…

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chance introductions & lily jade sale

 Diaper Bag: LILY JADE ||  Brown Puff Accessory: AMAZON The past two weeks have been all about school! I turned off social media and laid low on the blog as I have entered into full time teacher mode!!!  Matt has continued to travel for these job interviews while the kids and I have been trudging…

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Waiting can feel like a holding cell.⁠ Like life Waiting can feel like a holding cell.⁠
Like life was put on pause.⁠
Like maybe God has forgotten.⁠
⁠
Joseph. I really like him. I’m sure he knew that feeling.⁠ (He is someone I am excited to meet in Heaven.)

He was wrongfully imprisoned, and forgotten by from Pharaoh’s cup-bearer. I wonder what his thought life and prayer life were like in those years.
(Genesis 40:14-15, 23)⁠
⁠
Moses likely knew that feeling too.⁠
He reminded Israel that their forty years in the wilderness were not wasted years, but I am sure at times he questioned.

God was humbling them, teaching them dependence, shaping their hearts to trust His Word., but that probably wasn’t easy. 
(Deuteronomy 8:2-4)⁠
⁠
Seasons of waiting often feel unjust or…endless.⁠ 

But I know this deep down and I refuse to believe anything else, this season (and others like it) are not ever meaningless.⁠

God often does His deepest work in hidden years—as He is forming character, teaching reliance, preparing us for what lies ahead.⁠

He is forging in us something eternal, and although it’s east to lose sight of that end we must not give in to the lie that the season of waiting is worthless. 
⁠
If you’re like us, and are waiting on the Lord for something right now—⁠
for healing, for reconciliation, for provision, for a prayer to be answered—⁠
remember that God’s timing is not careless.⁠
His delays are not denials.⁠
What feels like an unanswered prayer is most certainly preparation.⁠
⁠
You (we) are not forgotten.⁠
You (we) are being purposefully formed.
We can trust Him. 

From my Journal entry 10/5/2025
I’m just a tree, planted by streams of Living Wa I’m just a tree, planted by streams of Living Water, with roots that go deep. He must increase…🍃
Real compassion takes work.⁠ A lot of it. ⁠ Real compassion takes work.⁠ 

A lot of it.
⁠
You can’t fake it with a quick emoji or a comment that sounds empathetic but costs you nothing.⁠
You can’t merely send a Bible verse, or a quick catch phrase, and move on.⁠
You can’t show up only when it’s convenient, comfortable, and well-lit.⁠
⁠
No, real compassion is inconvenient.⁠
It lingers when things get awkward.⁠
It leans in when everyone else leans out.⁠
It listens longer than it wants to,⁠
asks questions instead of assuming answers,⁠
and stays at the table when every instinct says,⁠
“You don’t owe them anything.”⁠
⁠
Because compassion isn’t just a feeling.⁠
It’s a choice.⁠

Just like love, because compassion IS love.
⁠
Love is a costly choice. 
⁠
It costs time.⁠
It costs comfort.⁠
Sometimes it costs your pride.⁠
⁠
But it’s the kind of cost Jesus never flinched at.⁠
⁠
He knelt in the dirt beside the woman caught in adultery.⁠
He wept with grieving sisters.⁠
He touched the leper.⁠
He drew near to the sick, the blind, the lame.
He forgave the ones crucifying Him.⁠
⁠
Love didn’t just move Him emotionally.⁠
It moved Him physically—toward pain, toward…people.
⁠
And if we’re following Him,⁠
it will move us too.⁠
⁠
Live the kind of Love that costs something.⁠ live the kind of Love that makes others confused. 
⁠
That’s the kind that changes the world.⁠

⁠
#passoutflowers⁠ #knownforlove #matteringthings
There’s a line I keep circling back to:⁠ ⁠ " There’s a line I keep circling back to:⁠
⁠
"A theology that gives rise to a spirituality, which nobody can live out, is a highly suspect theology, however good its biblical, traditional, and logical credentials may claim to be.” ⁠
(Fred Sanders, Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective, pg. 11)⁠
⁠
Here’s the thing—⁠
we can read the Bible, memorize verses, know the Greek and Hebrew, and still completely miss the point.⁠
Because the aim of theology is not simply to think rightly about God—⁠
it’s to live rightly with Him, and with others.⁠
⁠
Jesus didn’t say, “You’ll be known by your well-crafted statements.” ⁠
He said, “You’ll be known by your love.”⁠
(John 13:35)⁠
⁠
Jesus never invited us into a faith that stays in theory.⁠
He invites us to live what we believe—⁠
in the way we speak to our families,⁠
in how we forgive,⁠
in how we serve,⁠
in how we trust Him in the ordinary and the unseen.⁠
⁠
Real theology produces a real way of life.⁠
It shows up in the kitchen and in the carpool line, ⁠
on our kids' sports teams,⁠
in how we love, forgive, and endure.⁠
⁠
It doesn’t just inform our thoughts;⁠
it forms our character.⁠
⁠
Maybe today is a good day to ask:⁠
Where has your faith stayed in the mind—⁠
admired, elevated, but not practiced?⁠
⁠
Where might the Lord be inviting you to let it become real?⁠
⁠
Faith that stays in our heads will never transform the world.⁠
But faith that is lived—boldly, consistently, daily...⁠
⁠
will.
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