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    What do you think of this AD?

    I am working with a wonderful graphic design artist (who I highly recommend!) on an advertisement for the magazine to be published at a large women’s conference this fall. What do you think of this … (the quality is a lot better as a .pdf file but I can’t load that type of file onto my website) …    

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    NEW Retreat title & desciption

    OK, guys, no holds-barred … (well, if you have a LOT of harsh criticism, maybe you can take it offline and just email me directly? 🙂 ) … I’d REALLY love to hear what you REALLY think of these titles & descriptions for my “all new” women’s retreat. (Same content because the gospel is the gospel, right? But must shorter Tara teaching times; totally different examples; and MUCH MORE interaction/discussion/reflection.) Thanks for your counsel! Love ya, t Title for Retreat Becoming Who You Already Are—How the Gospel Transforms our Lives and Brings Us Peace Description for Retreat Do you ever sense a disconnect between what you claim to believe and…

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    Would YOU go to this retreat?

    So I’ve been working on a brand-new retreat and the event host has been incredibly patient as I’ve tried to figure out what in the world I’m trying to pull together. (Thanks again, Liz!) Today I emailed her some (very rough) brainstorming / off the top of my head thoughts in response to some of her questions … and I’d be curious to hear what YOU think about what I said. (I’ll copy a small portion of our email exchange below.) Thanks for letting me know if YOU would want to go to a women’s retreat like this. “Question: Tara, have you found the Friday night, Saturday day schedule pretty…

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    NOT “Lord, help me to trust in You” …

    Andree Seu has done it yet again … – encouraged – confronted – challenged – edified all for God’s glory!   Listen to just a tiny excerpt from one of her recent articles: “A friend objected to my piety. Not “Lord, help me to trust in You” (quoth he) but “Lord, I trust in You! Yea, by Your grace I trust in You!” There’s something psychologically different here, my chastened soul took note: The first prayer has a pious sound but never gets around to business, letting me postpone the joy it seeks a month or two, the meanwhile dithering in unbelief while waiting for divinity to bring me ’round…

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    To receive is NOT to accept …

    I started a new book this morning … A.W. Tozer’s Faith Beyond Reason. Wow! You know it’s a good book when even in the first few chapters you’re reading words you don’t know and learning things (or remembering things) that are IMPORTANT. Like this … John 1:11-13 says this: He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God–children born not of natural descent, nor or human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. Did you know that the word “receive”…

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    “Become who you already are…”

    The other day, a friend of mine challenged me to become who I already am. That instead of wallowing around in the mud of my despair and unbelief, I should rise up! And learn to be the woman that I already am–to be the “real me.” (In Christ, I AM a new creation. By God’s grace, I AM a godly wife and mother. I am loved. Wanted. Cherished. FORGIVEN. But oh! It is so easy to forget these truths.) I am so easily tempted to hide away. Life can feel so incredibly overwhelming! The world is a big scary place–the future is uncertain — life is very, very hard. But…