Jacque Watkins

finding grace through the mud

MS 001: Welcome to the Mud Stories Podcast!

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It’s here! The very first episode of the Mud Stories podcast! Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone. It’s all about our mud—times of trials, adversity, failure, suffering, or pain—no matter how […]

[VIDEO] Reciting The Romans Project & Why to Memorize Scripture

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Last year I joined a small group of women and we set out to participate in The Romans Project with Ann Voskamp and her community. And three months ago we finished that project–memorizing chapters one, eight, and twelve. And now, since Easter, we have moved on to learning James chapter one as a group, as […]

How to Become a Better Friend {Releasing Expectations}

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I hadn’t heard from her in over a month. And I didn’t feel a release to send another message until I did. Because sometimes, in a friendship, we need space. We need to process all that’s happening inside and respond when our heart is ready—when we have something meaningful to say. And that’s what I […]

When Graduation Changes Your View

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I’d known it was coming for months—how they’d pass their own milestones this year and graduate. Him, the oldest of the five, towering tall. And her, the youngest, vibrant and sweet. He graduated from high school with all the pomp and circumstance—the tassel-shifting, hat-tossing, and cheering with streamers flying high into the sky. And she […]

When Rejection Stings {Allume}

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The email came on a Friday afternoon–an email I’d been waiting on for over a month… The email that would hold the answer to a dream I’d been nurturing for some time, and the answer would be a simple yes or no. When I saw it arrive in my phone’s inbox, I halted mid-stride in front of […]

When You’re Spun by Change and Weighed Down by Grief

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This past month my friend’s mother dies suddenly, the Sauer family says goodbye to Ben, their brave four-year old cancer-fighter, and another friend cares for her husband in hospice, in what are sure to be his last days here on this earth. And they cling to the hope he’ll make it through Father’s day before […]

Five Tips to Make Scripture Memorization More Doable {VIDEO}

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Scripture memorization is a challenge for me. It’s just plain hard. I remember my college years, how I used to study for hours and then finally take the test, only to promptly forget almost all of it as fast as one could turn a light off. And this is the challenge whenever we try to memorize anything: […]