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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1. What is the one thing your love does for you that you can’t live without? Hmmm…this one is tough. I think that more than anything I enjoy hubby’s non-stop encouragement. He is by far my absolute biggest fan. He is always around to offer me support in whatever it is that I want to […]

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February 12, 2010

5QF-Valentines Edition

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One of the things about Hubby & I that amazes me the most, is that we always share the same frame of mind.. When something is on his mind, it’s usually on mine-without even communicating about it. We are able to understand each other, without too much conversation. We just get it.  Over the past […]

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February 12, 2010

Happiness is not a gaurantee…it’s an option

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In Honor of Valentines Day, I am going to do something I don’t normally do…well, atleast something I don’t do enough of. I’m going to step away from the crafting, photo’s, and generally miscellaneous posts that I usually do and I’m going to devote this entire post to my wonderful husband. {Cue simultaneous gagging “awww”} In […]

Family, Marriage

February 10, 2010

I’m going to brag…

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I admit, I have always struggled with feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. While I can’t really place an exact reason as to why I have always felt this way, I think I can trace most of it back to my junior high days. I was a “late bloomer” {and I do mean late…talking 8th and […]

Writing

February 8, 2010

Mediocre Living

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In Honor of Valentines Day, Mama M is hosting this fun little blog hop where we get to talk all about love and romance and all that mushy gushy stuff. Today she’s asking how we met our significant other. Well….let’s see. It was July 2008, I had just started a new job as Patient Care Tech. […]

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February 7, 2010

How I fell in Love…

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Ok. So I’m not exactly snowed in. I mean, after all, I live in Florida. The weather is running between 65-70 degrees during the day. I’ve got the sliding glass doors and the windows open, feeling the sunshine and the breeze. Okay. Now that I’m making all of you snow birds sick, I’ll introduce myself.  […]

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February 5, 2010

Not so Snowed In…

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Last week Monica over Pixel Perfect Blog hosted a fun little photo-editing blog hop. She’s decided to host it again this week, so I’m linking up some new photo’s of the little man and doing my good mommy duty and posting all about my son. This is original picture of Little Man playing with his friend […]

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February 4, 2010

15 [almost 16] Months…

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I am super excited that I was able to completely and totally tackle this project in two days! I would have finished it in one, but Little Man wasn’t feeling well and I had other things that needed doing. I am super proud of how it turned out and even hubby thinks that it’s a […]

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February 3, 2010

Family Rules Project-Complete!

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I’m linking several random things in this post today rather than doing a bunch of different posts. That way you don’t have to scroll down a ways to read everything. See…I can be helpful 🙂 First, I’m linking up today with Monica over at Pixel Perfect Blog for some fun photo editing. If you’ve never been […]

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January 28, 2010

Photo Editing plus some Brain Dumping

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Good morning, friends! My mind is in about 10,000 different places this morning and I needed an outlet to put all of my thoughts on ‘paper.’ {Lucky for you!} While this will be a totally random post, there are a lot of ideas here and things that you can look forward to seeing on my […]

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January 27, 2010

Cluster of thoughts…

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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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