That stuff you're afraid to talk about...the sin you think is too messy? We unpack that here...

Through good and bad, sadness and joy, my heart lies with showing the goodness of God in all seasons. Especially the messy ones.

Pain.

There is purpose behind the

Beauty

There is                  in the chaos,

Mess,

there is meaning in the

Every day society tells us that life has to be perfect and orderly to be beautiful. Our day-to-day should be a nothing less than perfect. We need a flawless aesthetic, a five year plan and perfectly curated social media. There's nothing glamorous about disorder and uncertainty. It's not "normal" to struggle. 

But God wants to use those ugly parts, too. Those broken memories, those hidden struggles, and those less than beautiful moments. 

God wants to use the ugly stuff, too...

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The past couple of days have been frustrating…it seems like there are times in life that everything happens at one time…everything goes wrong at one time…everyone makes you mad-at one time. It’s been that kind of time for us lately. The biggest thing we have been aggravated about lately is this apartment we live in. […]

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March 13, 2009

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We took Noah out to the Beach for the first time today. We went out to St. Pete Beach and spent most of the afternoon. It was in the low 80’s and absolutely beautiful outside. He isn’t big enough to play in the sand yet, but he had the best time just standing in it […]

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March 7, 2009

First Trip to the Beach

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I have been thinking about a lot of different things lately…don’t really know why. I guess that’s just the way life is…Mainly, I started thinking about (once again) how much life has changed over the past 4 years of my life…especially the past year. Like I said in my last post, I just don’t feel […]

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March 2, 2009

Rambling…

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There was never a such thing as a “Build a Bear Workshop” when I was little. I had never even heard of it until a few years ago when I passed by one at the mall in Montgomery. Me being the big kid I am, have always thought it looked like fun. Now that I […]

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February 28, 2009

Build a Bear

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The past few weeks have been ridiculously exhausting. Josh’s mom did come down to stay while Josh had surgery…but I may have failed to mention that she came the Friday BEFORE his surgery and left the day after it. So, for the past 2 weeks, I feel like I have been running around like a […]

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February 27, 2009

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Josh’s mom and little brother came down for the weekend to help out with Noah while Josh has surgery, so today we all went to the Ray’s FanFest at the Trop. Noah is really too little to have any clue what is going on, but we thought it would be kind of cool and a […]

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February 15, 2009

Ray’s Fan Fest & Valentines Day

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Noah is getting his first tooth…ouch. He has not exactly been the happiest baby in the world this past week or so. He isn’t really sleeping that well…though Children’s Tylenol is helping some. He’s gnawing on EVERYTHING he can get his mouth on-except the teething ring we bought him. He is especially fond of chewing […]

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February 11, 2009

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Right now, I am reading the book Crazy Love by Francis Chan…talk about an eye opener. The book is about radical Christianity and how we should strive to live a life completely and totally sold-out for God. Chapter 4 is about Christians who do just enough to get by…the lukewarm people. They aren’t on fire […]

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February 8, 2009

“Profile for the Lukewarm”

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I decided to skip blogging on today’s Love Dare. It was good, but not much to it. In a nutshell, it talked about how important it is to greet your spouse in a way that makes them truly believe you are happy to see them. Then the dare was to greet them in that way. […]

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February 4, 2009

Skipping the Love Dare Blog today…

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This post is all over Facebook right now, and since I don’t bother posting notes on my Facebook (because I have a blog that I enjoy keeping up to date more…) I decided to post it here. I’m not going to tag anyone. Mainly because I don’t really know anyone that reads this, but if […]

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January 27, 2009

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Courtney Kirkland is a Southeast Alabama Writer & Designer. Since 2011,, Courtney has passionately provided beautiful, intentional design to small businesses & bloggers and encouraged thousands to walk in a rich faith in any situation.

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