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 theme with The Paper Mama this week is Orange. Not one of my favorite colors to wear or anything, but it definitely makes for some cute photographs! Orange always seem to make photos so bright and cheery…This one of little man is one of my favorites. We took it while we were out to […]

Random Things

August 14, 2010

Orange

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I’m a Southern Girl. Born and raised. And with being a Southern Girl…comes SEC Football. Roll Tide Roll. This is not the end…this is the beginning.

Random Things, Uncategorized

August 14, 2010

It’s almost time…

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Have you ever wondered if maybe God uses our children to punish us? NOT meaning that children are a punishment or that they are not a blessing or anything like that. But that maybe sometimes things happen as a way to get our attention? Snap us back to where we need to be in life? […]

Uncategorized

August 13, 2010

Winds of Change

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Have you ever wondered if maybe God uses our children to punish us? NOT meaning that children are a punishment or that they are not a blessing or anything like that. But that maybe sometimes things happen as a way to get our attention? Snap us back to where we need to be in life? […]

Family, Motherhood

August 12, 2010

Winds of Change

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I decided to participate in the iheartfaces photo challenge this week. The theme this week is Surprise! When you’re the mom of a toddler, there are usually lots of surprises and lots of opportunities to capture those faces on camera. Here is one of my favorites of Little Man. His first “bubble” experience.   Head […]

Random Things

August 8, 2010

Surprise!!

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This is something that I have been thinking about really hard for the past several, several months. Maybe because life has taken a few twists and turns that we didn’t expect and there are some things that just haven’t always worked out the way that we wanted to. I think my mind and my heart […]

Friendship

August 8, 2010

Mommy Friendships

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This is the first time I’ve played along with this challenge. It’s SOOC [Straight Out of Camera-which means no editing] Saturday. I’ll be honest, editing photos is one of my favorite things about photography. You can capture beautiful moments on camera, but editing turns them into something phenomenal. As I mentioned before, I recently started […]

Random Things

August 6, 2010

SOOC Saturday

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It feels like it has been forever and a day since my last real post here. I apologize, but to be honest there just hasn’t been all that much to blog about. Little Man and I are doing our same ole routine. We have such a good time together. I’m working on teaching him his […]

Lifestyle, Random Things

August 6, 2010

Time to start over…

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Little Man has a best friend {aside from me and his daddy, of course.} His best friend is about a foot tall, made entirely out of plastic and has a wicked karate chop action. He carries him everywhere. Literally. To the tub, in the car, to the store, to bed…they spend time watching movies. You […]

Random Things

August 5, 2010

Buddies

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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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